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Authoritarians, strongmen wannabes like Trump and Mussolini, make the "authoritarian bargain," Ben-Ghiat says, in which they court elites, business and religious ones, to give legitimacy to their authoritarianism. On the Catholic side, as Ben-Ghiat points out, there's the powerful, secretive, wealthy right-wing cult Opus Dei which is omnipresent in DC and helps prop trump up.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes that "Trump does this thing with images of Jesus when he feels extremely threatened." Not only did he recently post the blasphemous AI image equating himself with Jesus (and then lie and say he thought the image was a doctor). But when he had his criminal trial, he released a sketch showing Jesus standing next to him.
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"A lot of thoughts spring to mind in relation to this, but at the very forefront, one question: do the US’s evangelical Christians, who overwhelmingly support Trump, have a red line and if so, can they find it with both hands?
I’m stating the obvious but it’s worth raising again, if only to boggle at the sheer shamelessness of a religious community that has thrown in its lot with Trump."
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"He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting on the goodwill of one powerful constituency of American voters, to whom he appealed this week by reading a passage from the Bible urging people to repent their 'wicked ways'."
~ Emma Brockes
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