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Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Religious Right Gets Its Marching Orders

Bonus Tracks
  • It looks like the dinner(link is external) that President Trump hosted for Religious Right leaders earlier this week to motivate(link is external) them to mobilize their activists to vote in the midterm elections is working, as James Dobson(link is external) and Tim Wildmon(link is external), who both attended the event, are now out there explicitly making the case.
  • End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles predicts(link is external) that Michelle Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
  • Right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton, who recently asserted(link is external) that Trump's immorality doesn't matter as long as he continues to deliver on the Religious Right's political agenda, said yesterday(link is external) that "folks who have a Machiavellian kind of attitude that says the end justifies the means" when it comes to voting will have to answer to God for that attitude.
  • Several Liberty University students and alumni are not happy(link is external) that the university was deeply involved in producing the forthcoming movie(link is external) about so-called "firefighter prophet" Mark Taylor.
  • Finally, right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein slammed(link is external) the late Sen. John McCain for being "a petty, petty person" by insisting that Trump not attend his funeral.