• XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Carter actively courted the evangelical movement bringing them into US politics in a mainstream way.

    Reagan was literally a movie star and on a reality TV show prior to being president (General Electric Showcase House where Reagan and Nancy lived in and showed off a “modern” house as a giant advertisement for GE)

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        Yeah definitely I brought up the evangelicals because that was the new horrible stuff Carter added that later reactionaries perfected.

        US Presidents have been doing and allowing genocide to happen pretty much the whole times it’s been a country.

        But even Trump being a reality TV star supported by whack job Christian fundamentalists isn’t new.