What Trump supporters and Christians have in common

[Shell B]

I was just sitting here reading Facebook posts thinking of how Trump said Obama was the founder of Isis. Any rational person knows he said it knowing some people would just outright believe him and the rest would get fired up, even though they knew it wasn't factual. I thought about responding to an uncle's funny anti-Trump post by saying "Obama founded Isis!" and then realized Trump supporters in our family would just pop in and cite "context" as the reason it's okay for Trump to say completely and utterly false things and still have supporters that should know better. That's the exact same thing a Christian would say when you point out atrocities in the Bible. God doesn't want you to beat your family. It's all about context. That kind of thing. It's no surprise that the folks who let this fucking anglerfish through are mainly the right-wing Christians. They're used to making the same arguments and suffering under the same delusions that would lead to "faith" in Donald Trump.