• meco03211@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    I don’t think he’s personally a religious extremist. Those are just the useful idiots he caters to and his handlers can exploit.

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      23 hours ago

      You have it backwards. Trump is the useful idiot by which the religious extremists are getting their agenda successfully implemented.

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      18 hours ago

      You know the funny thing? Hitler also doesn’t appear to have been religious. But he used religion (both Protestants and Catholics) extensively to help him gain power. Interesting that Trump appears to have taken inspiration from Hitler (like that whole book of Hitler’s speeches on Trump’s bedside table). Birds of a feather…