I will just drop this here
The racist history of evangelicals proves they're a perfect match with Trump: Why the religious right's love for The Donald makes sense
The religious right was formed to protect segregation, so it's no surprise they're drawn to Donald Trump
"...In 2014,
historian Randall Balmer published a Politico article on this quickly fading but critically important history, where he laid out how much of the infrastructure of the religious right was established by racists who were trying to preserve segregation. As Balmer explains, after Brown v Board of Education, huge swaths of the South reinstated segregation by creating an elaborate private school system, which were deemed "segregation academies."
Jerry Falwell got his start as a religious right leader founding and defending such schools.
But in 1971, the federal government ruled that private non-profit schools could not maintain a tax-exempt status if they banned black students, and the organized efforts to resist this, by using religion as a justification to resist race-mixing, turned into what we now understand as the modern religious right.
Reagan loved to thrill his racist audiences by telling tales of a "welfare queen" who bought a Cadillac off welfare or the "strapping young buck" buying T-bones with food stamps.
He argued that the Voting Rights Act was "humiliating to the South" and opposed the Civil Rights Act.
He kicked off his 1980 campaign in a town where civil rights workers had famously been murdered, and his speech focused on his support for those resisting desegregation. And he won the religious right's vote, despite being a former movie star and the first (and so far only) divorced President.
Sounds an awful lot like the current front-runner of the Republican race, a man who enjoys tickling his audience with racially loaded urban legends and bigoted insinuations, and whose past as a decadent tabloid fixture and TV star doesn't seem to ruffle religious right feathers, so long as he keeps the bigoted rhetoric coming."
The racist history of evangelicals proves they're a perfect match with Trump: Why the religious right's love for The Donald makes sense