One of the peculiar aspects of the White Christians’ love affair with Trump is the clear dissonance between their sexual ethics and his sexual abuses. It’s perhaps the most glaring hypocrisy when it comes to conservative religious voters claiming Trump is an American messiah who will deliver the nation back to its founding—and back to God. Yet there is a way that Trump’s sexual savagery actually reinforces rather than betrays the family values discourse and purity culture ethos we’ve been examining in this chapter and the previous one. And it ties directly to the White Christian nationalist
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