Religious Right hypocrites cheer Trump at summit

[Brittain33]

Meanwhile, liberal hypocrites in Hollywood lecture us on ''women's rights'' and the evils of Trump while their industry is chock full of sexual predators. Where is your criticism of their hypocrisy? These people routinely help finance liberal campaigns, so you can't say they have no significant political influence.

1. When the news about Weinstein came out, everyone in Hollywood disowned him quickly, and he disappeared. Compare that with the Access Hollywood tape, where Republicans dropped Trump for a week and then came rushing back to defend him, and still love him.

2. Republicans who are gleeful about Weinstein like it's the Democratic AH tape (wtf? He's not a politician) are absolutely clueless how bad their behavior makes them look because it just reminds everyone about President Pussygrabber's bragging and behavior. You've been buying the Republican applause line that "Hollywood is the Democratic party" that you missed that it's not actually true.

By by all means, people like Donald Trump, Jr. and Tucker Carlson should continue to express outrage about Weinstein, it just gives more opportunities to remind America what they support and make apologies for in their own leader. 

[Brittain33]

If he had run as a Democrat, religious conservatives would have denounced him as a mortal threat to America by pointing to these facts, and quite possibly would have told their congregations that they would go to hell if they voted for him.  Jesus said that we could judge a tree by its fruits.  Does this sound like the kind of fruits of a true Christian?

Hold on a second. Isn't this logic more-or-less criticising Christians for not voting as bigoted sectarians? You're saying that it's hypocritical for Christians to vote for non-Christians regardless of policy as they should only support Presidential candidates they believe are 'saved' by God. That's basically a religious test. To stay consistent, should evangelicals refuse to vote for Sanders in 2020 on the grounds that he's Jewish?

I think evangelical support for Trump should be celebrated by progressives as it shows how admirably non-religious and accepting of cultural liberalism (divorce, sexual liberation) American conservatives are, instead preferring a more wide-based, secular American nationalism. It should be proof, if anything, that liberalism won the culture war of the 90s and 00s.

We're coming off of 30 years of these Republicans criticize Dem candidates for their personal lives and alleged personal sins, and encouraging Republican candidates to promote their own moral values and relationship with Christ. No one is imposing a religious test. We're just noting that they threw away thirty years of saying "personal values matter" when they swooned for Trump.