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A Marriage Forged in Hell
Christianity, Trumpism, and the art of hypocrisy
O n the surface, Christianity and Trumpism make for some strange bedfellows. One claims to follow a humble carpenter who taught about loving your enemies and turning the other cheek; the other rallies behind a gold-plated real estate mogul who never forgets a slight and demands absolute loyalty. Yet the alliance between evangelical Christians and Trump is no accident. This seemingly contradictory marriage reveals something fundamental about both movements — something that explains their natural compatibility despite their apparent differences.
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What binds these movements together isn’t shared values but shared mechanisms — specifically, what I call the “PR facade.” This is more than simple hypocrisy. It’s a sophisticated system that allows adherents to publicly align themselves with noble, aspirational ideals while simultaneously engaging in behaviors that directly contradict those same ideals. More importantly, it provides the psychological architecture for denying this contradiction even exists.
This essay examines how Christianity and Trumpism employ identical psychological patterns to create movements where stated values and actual operations exist in parallel universes — never…
