I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

Yeah, one of the ironies of 1980 was evangelicals went for a Hollywood actor over a Sunday-school teaching born-again. xxp

The gradual process of a successful Trump campaign has been a horrifying development, but I'm trying to imagine how shocked I'd be if I somehow missed everything between his escalator-ride announcement and his current standing. It was supposed to be a joke. Like if Gary Busey ran or something.

xpost i thought reagan was a superchristian? i remembered reading anecdotes about how how he truly believed armageddon would take place in his lifetime (chilling considering the us/ussr nuclear stuff going on at the time), and then he had this quote in People in 1983:

"Theologians had been studying the ancient prophecies-what would portend the coming of Armageddon?-and have said that never, in the time between the prophecies up until now, has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together. There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this.

...I think whichever generation and at whatever time, when the time comes, the generation that is there, I think will have to go on doing what they believe is right."

i dunno, i guess that could just be lip service too, but he seemed to be a believer

yes i think he believed all that but w/out running off to church.

white guys with graduate degrees will be ok

well i don't have a grad degree but i DO have cancer, so eager to see what Trumpcare will look like!

Tea Party has also peaked partly because the label is now perceived, by those the right, to have been coopted by opportunistic rent-seekers.

it's a boy: can we at least say that it's a trifle odd to have someone who travels in a private plane with his name written on the fuselage in 7-foot-high letters presented as a "champion of the downtrodden little guy"?

i think the tea party has peaked tbh, so much of their anger was so focused on such a non-existent problem and was so obviously formed because Obama won in 2008

I don't think the tea party was ever a movement, it was just convenient for the media to frame it like one. there are just a lot of crazy people out there. nothing to peak, they're not going away. this kinda reactionary nationalism started bubbling up thanks to dubya. obama was a catalyst but the america love it or leave it tough guy president stuff started post-9/11.

I don't doubt that Reagan took seriously ancient Biblical prophecies. He and Nancy also famously consulted astrologers. Probably his personal beliefs were a very Hollywood-esque melange of New Age beliefs and idiosyncratic theology.

Reagan was so Christian that he never went to church

The tea party was specifically obsessed with the budget though, I thought, and this idea that people who couldn't pay their mortgages should suffer for it. Seems like a very different message than Trump, although I assume it involves many of the same people

Reagan's religious allegiances showed themselves with the Bob Jones shit and hiring James Watt and the cult of lachrymose masculinity that worked at Pentagon and NSC.

a very Hollywood-esque melange of New Age beliefs and idiosyncratic theology.

yeah this is about right afaict. hardly disingenuous tho.

Tea Partiers were proportionally drawn more from the wealthier end of the GOP, which would be kind of the opposite of Trump's core demographic. xxp

That describes a lot of American Christianity honestly

Xp to dll.

Should probably get zing so this doesn't keep happening

And yeah, you're right o.nate. The original "tea party" was supposed to be a rebellion of bond traders rebelling against Obama's debt relief program lol

it was Bush's debt relief program when it started

this thread is so big it’s crashing my browser, so I took the liberty of starting a new one:

Il Douché and His Discontents: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 4

or bank bail outs or whatever

Santelli's rant was about Obama's mortgage relief i thought

I've never heard of him, he was a CNBC anchor?? Wiki says he made some kind of statement on February 19, 2009, and my memory is that Tea Party was in the air well before that

I thought thats where the word "tea party" came from, but i am just going off my memories of reading griftopia in 2011

Taxed Enough Already = T.E.A., plus the dudes already had a boner for the Founding Fathers