Decolonizing Christianity by De La Torre Miguel A.;

Author:De La Torre, Miguel A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

During Trump’s 2017 inaugural address, he presented himself as a savior declaring “American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”12 It does not matter that no economic, political, or social indicators existed documenting this supposed carnage. The id-based rallies that followed solidified fawning devotees regardless of his ability to be footloose with facts. Trump simply needed to say carnage existed, and many of the uninformed and ill-informed, unaware of how much they simply do not know, believed him. Likewise, in July 2020, all he needed to say was that the coronavirus would simply disappear, claiming the number of infections were decreasing, for diehard believers to believe, even though 2.7 million tested positive and 130,000 died.13 When science or independent investigative news sources presents data contrary to Trump’s cosmology, Trumpites, whose worldview is shaped by religious pretenders and Fox News pundits, are encouraged to dismiss facts as hoax. The unsubstantiated carnage and chaos envisioned in 2017 are accepted as truth while the carnage and chaos of 2020 are downplayed and dismissed. Maybe the carnage to which Trump referred in 2017 was the election of a Black man to the highest office eight years earlier. If so, this straw that broke the camel’s back unleashed a whitelash that caused the mask of political correctness, poorly concealing white supremacists’ faces, to slip. Make America White Again sought remedies from a previously unresponsive government to correct and revenge the so-called “carnage and chaos” caused by the perceived loss of white affirmative action.

Ignoring reality, the many Euro-Americans who voted for Trump felt satisfied after having felt abandoned by their nation. Many professed after the election that they voted “to make a point”—to flip a bird at DC—to raise an offensive middle finger toward a government led by a Black man. For some whites who claim rugged individualism, there is an attraction in welcoming a different form of chaos than the one used to motivate credulous minds. Fearing the carnage Trump exploits to garner votes, they find security and pleasure in exerting their own form of carnage. Antichrists, not surprisingly, attract like-minded trolls with schadenfreude fixations. Trump’s use of demeaning, childish, and bullying phrases such as “Little Marco,” “Lying Ted,” “Crooked Hillary,” and the more racist “Pocahontas,” not only entertains his base but secures votes from those who appreciate a president “who speaks his mind.”

One “able to mesmerize an audience”

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