re: Lets Talk Politics

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The decline of religiosity probably has as much to do with Trump's rise as anything. For a lot of people it's a form of cultural signaling rather than a true faith.

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There's a lot of truth to this. I'd venture the argument that people who culturally identify with Christianity but do NOT actually go to church more than a couple of times a year at most are much more likely to be Trump supporters than any other group. The identification with traditional America and traditional American values that has been placed in an affirmation of Christian faith by someone who never goes to church as sort of proxy now has a new home in Trump. Supporting Trump is the new way to say "let's be aggressive, nuclear-family-having, red-meat-eating, work-ethic-having, law-abiding, building great things, AMERICANS" for people who aren't really religious. TRUMP is the proxy for all of that instead of saying "I'm Christian, but it's a personal faith... I don't like churches".