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Title: What Part of Donald Trump Reminds You of Jesus Christ?
Source: Esquire
URL Source: http://www.esquire.com/news-politic ... /ken-burns-evangelicals-trump/
Published: Jul 17, 2016
Author: Jack Holmes
Post Date: 2016-07-17 17:21:30 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 7537
Comments: 26

Donald Trump's appeal to Evangelical voters is perplexing and bizarre, and it has earned the attention of more than one political observer. Samantha Bee dug into the phenomenon and came to the conclusion that it boiled down to a kind of identity politics, and now legendary documentarian Ken Burns has weighed in. He sat down with The Daily Beast to discuss a retrospective of his films just released online, but the conversation quickly drifted to the 2016 election.

Burns did not mince words when it came to Donald Trump and the religious right, the culmination of what he sees as a long con:

"The Republican Party has been extraordinarily successful at getting many groups of people to vote against their self-interest. Evangelicals are voting for Donald Trump. What part of Donald Trump reminds you of Jesus Christ? Trump lusts after his own daughter on national radio, talks about women's bodies and breasts in such a disparaging way, and mocks them. How is this in any way Christian? When you make the "other" the enemy, how is that Christian?"

Much of Burns' work deals with "race as a central subtheme of American life," and that extends to The Central Park Five, a documentary about five black teenagers wrongfully convicted of raping a white female jogger in New York's famed greenspace. Burns believes that Trump's role in that fiasco is telling:

"He shamefully took out a full-page ad in all of the New York dailies asking for a restoration of the death penalty for two 14-year-old, two 15-year-old, and one 16-year-old innocent children. While New York State laws would not have permitted their execution, just the fact that there was a rush to judgment ought to be complete evidence of how temperamentally unsuited he is for the office he now seeks.

And when asked if his involvement was racially motivated:

"Of course it was [racially motivated]. I found no outrage at the "preppie killer." The problem was that the initial idea of the crime was that there were these "wilding" black youths—a wolf pack—that attacked this innocent blond woman, and that's always been the primal fear of Americans as they tolerated slavery and then tolerated Jim Crow. You had newspapers in a progressive northern city sounding like a southern racist newspaper from the 1880s gleefully reporting on a lynching."

You can catch the full interview here.

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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)

Samantha Bee

Pathetic

Roscoe  posted on  2016-07-17   17:24:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Willie Green (#0)

What part of Hilary Clinton reminds you of anything good?

I know not to raise the bar to Jesus Christ. That would be heading to the wrong direction for her.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-17   17:27:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Willie Green (#0)

What part of Donald Trump reminds you of Jesus Christ?

Obviously a rhetorical question. Dump is as far from the attributes of Christ as you could get and yet millions would follow him through the gates of hell and into the abyss

paraclete  posted on  2016-07-17   18:08:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: paraclete (#3)

Dump is as far from the attributes of Christ as you could get and yet millions would follow him through the gates of hell and into the abyss

Are we talking Clinton or Trump here! ;)

Well when you have a choice of Clinton or other you must go for other. It may not be your first, second or third choice but there is not much worse than Hillary or Obama. I just can not imagine back to back worst presidents in history. I know we could not survive as a country.

What Trump has shown is that pubs can fight and still win. If nothing else is taken from this election is that pubs do not have to run and hide once the MSM starts beating them up in the press because they are not progressive enough.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-17   18:16:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Justified (#4)

Are we talking Clinton or Trump here! ;)

I was talking about Dump, Dilliary didn't enter into the question. As I have said before you have Hobson's choice, the devil you know or the devil you don't know. All that Dump offers is change, what sort of change remains to be seen, you will go from a man who knows nothing to a man who knows everything, on the other hand if you want someone who will lie to you and who's attitude is what does it matter, choose Dilliary

paraclete  posted on  2016-07-17   18:38:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Willie Green (#0)

What Part of Donald Trump Reminds You of Jesus Christ?

None. I'll take a General Patton over Jesus Christ.

rlk  posted on  2016-07-17   20:33:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: paraclete (#5)

I do know Hillary is unexceptionable on all levels.

She will be worse by a 1000 times to Trump if he just sucks when it comes to USSC justices, economy, terrorism, border security, illegal immigration, taxation, government corruption and the Clinton's need to politically die[just like the bushes].

Lets not forget race relations since we have 8 dead cops in just the last few days.

There is nothing that she can do better than anyone except make America worse. Thats what I do know.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-17   20:38:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Willie Green (#0)

The time he used his own jet to fly a sick kid to a Children's hospital for treatments.

The time he paid off a man's mortgage for fixing his car asking for nothing in return. He did so using his own money and not the government's.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-07-17   20:47:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Willie Green (#0) (Edited)

You can catch the full interview here.

I did. Can I now have that 10 minutes of my life back?

I knew Ken Burns political viewpoints were likely to the left of mine, but I could still appreciate the documentaries he's done.

Turns out that he's just another brain-dead liberal. Too bad.

Advice - don't waste 10 minutes like I did. I'll summarize for you.

1. Trump is the devil
2. America is hopelessly racist - always has been, always will be.
3. Some people thought that electing President Zero (twice) might at least go a little ways to getting us past our inherent racism.

The oh-so enlightened Ken Burns, however, knew better. "Just wait", he told everyone.

And then the ultra-racist Tea Party was formed.

Now I see why Willie posted this.

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . "

~Psalm 33:12a

Rufus T Firefly  posted on  2016-07-17   21:00:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Justified (#7)

" There is nothing that she can do better than anyone except make America worse. Thats what I do know. "

Very good point !!!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur

Stoner  posted on  2016-07-17   21:01:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: redleghunter (#8)

Very good examples

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur

Stoner  posted on  2016-07-17   21:12:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Willie Green (#0)

Probably his abs.

Logsplitter  posted on  2016-07-17   22:00:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Willie Green (#0)

You don't really know anything about Jesus Christ, do you?

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2016-07-17   22:27:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Justified (#7)

I do know Hillary is unexceptionable on all levels.

I expect this is what it is like to be on the horns of a dilemma. I recently experienced the same feeling in our recent election. When there is a choice between Antony and Caesar do you choose Brutus? Will we see the blood of Trump or Clinton?

paraclete  posted on  2016-07-17   22:28:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Willie Green (#0)

What Part of Donald Trump Reminds You of Jesus Christ?

The great hair, of course!

Vicomte13  posted on  2016-07-17   22:42:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Willie Green (#0)

I have given this article a lot thought. And I have decided Trump is akin to beezelbub than jesus.

buckeroo  posted on  2016-07-17   22:51:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: buckeroo (#16)

I have decided Trump is akin to beezelbub than jesus

My thoughts exactly, just when satan was convincing us he didn't exist, there he is

paraclete  posted on  2016-07-18   1:54:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Don (#13)

You don't really know anything about Jesus Christ, do you?

Willie Green  posted on  2016-07-18   8:09:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Willie Green (#18)

As I suspected. You only post stuff about Christianity and Christ to piss off Christians.

You are a piece of work.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-07-18   9:04:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Willie Green (#0)

"The Republican Party has been extraordinarily successful at getting many groups of people to vote against their self-interest."

Not as successful as the Democrat Party has been in getting blacks to vote against their self-interest. Obama got 96% of the black vote and what did it get them?

As far as Donald Trump's appeal to Evangelical voters ... who else are they going to vote for? Hillary, the anti-Christ?

misterwhite  posted on  2016-07-18   9:05:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: redleghunter (#19)

As I suspected. You only post stuff about Christianity and Christ to piss off Christians.

Don't be so thin-skinned, dude.

Willie Green  posted on  2016-07-18   9:24:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: misterwhite, Darrell Castle (#20)

Evangelical voters ... who else are they going to vote for?


The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Hondo68  posted on  2016-07-18   10:29:13 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Willie Green, misterwhite (#20)

"The Republican Party has been extraordinarily successful at getting many groups of people to vote against their self-interest."

Blacks are doing so well under the demoncrat party that they would have to go back to slavery to do worse! The first black president has been the worst president for blacks. Go figure? Well he has been the worst president in history and all he did is more race baiting which made it worse for blacks.

All the GOP is doing is filling the emptiness that the demoncrat party leaves as they move closer to communism. So really if you hate the GOP you really just hate the demoncrat party of yesterday. So that tells me that you see only D & R instead of actual issues.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-18   13:13:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Willie Green (#21)

Blasphemy.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-07-18   15:46:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Willie Green (#18)

That is the sum total of your understanding of Christ?

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2016-07-18   16:04:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: redleghunter (#19)

Don't worry about Willie. If the situation continues as it is, he will never get close to Christ or His Kingdom. He is to be pitied.

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2016-07-18   16:06:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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