Hear Evangelical Leaders Explain Why They Have Repented of their Support for Trump
Evangelical Christians have been among Donald Trump’s most reliable supporters. But that support has been eroding as the contrast between Trump’s words and behavior and Christian teachings and values has become harder to ignore. Several prominent preachers who once supported him have had a change of heart — in some cases, a true repentance — […]
An Answer to Evangelicals: If God Put Trump in Power, What Lessons Does He Want Us to Learn?
Neither reason nor faith can reach neo-Nazis, white supremacists, anti-Semites, conspiracy theorists, and other loathsome Trump followers. They have found their leader and he has found them. But those who are committed to following the teachings of Jesus—as they understand them—are in a different category. We undertook our effort to change their minds because we […]
Class War’s Smoking Gun: Corporate Elites’ 50-year Plan to Rule the United States
“I believe leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society. …I cannot sit there seeking unity with the leaders of American industry, while […]
An Anti-Abortion Christian Asks: Is This the Only Thing That Matters to Jesus? NO!
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg forces us to confront one of the favorite excuses some voters use for ignoring Donald Trump’s egregiously inhumane and anti-Christian words and deeds. They can turn a blind eye to Trump’s endless sins as long as he appoints judges who will outlaw abortion. That raises […]
Why Donald Trump is Killing the Postal Service: to Rig the Election, with Putin’s Help
Donald Trump is killing the U.S. Postal Service because he and Vladimir Putin are set up to rig America’s voting machines. That’s where our election is most vulnerable; not from paper, mail-in ballots, which are by far the safest voting method we have. They want you to fear the wrong things about the voting process. […]
Is Evangelicals’ Devotion to Armageddon and the Rapture Increasing the Danger of Mideast War?
Some time ago I began writing the third in a series of profiles of so-called “faith leaders” who make up an indispensable part of the Trump base—this one about Jerry Falwell Jr. I was puzzled: how could so many millions of people be taken in by the many fraudsters who Trump has assembled around him? […]
With Trump’s Approval, Big Tobacco and New Players Use Nicotine to Hook a New Generation of Consumers
TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO Part 1: systematic lies about smoking’s health dangers TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO PART 2: the money pours in, vaping regulations slow-walked PREVIOUS: BIG TOBACCO’S DECADES OF LIES ABOUT SMOKING’S DANGERS PART 2: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT CIGARETTE SMOKING WAS DYING OUT: NOW THIS We thought we had finally gotten rid […]
A New Generation of Addicts: Trump Takes Tobacco Money, Becomes Friend to Vaping Industry
TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO Part 1: systematic lies about smoking’s health dangers TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO PART 2: the money pours in, vaping regulations slow-walked PART 1: DO YOU LOVE YOUR KIDS? WHAT A QUESTION! WE ALL LOVE OUR KIDS. But never mind love. Does Donald Trump even care about your kids? I grew up […]
On Empathy: Do you Really Think These Men Care About You or Your Kids?
There they are, members of Trump’s private golf club inBedminster, New Jersey. They’re standing by their man who, as soon as hefreshens up from a day on the links, will sit down to sign an executive orderthat the White House lawyers prepared for him. First the aides will scurryaround putting up a few American flags, […]
An Appeal to Evangelicals: Remember Your Values, Protect Your Influence, Think About the Children
MEMO TO: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS WHO STILL SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP FROM: NEIL FABRICANT, FED UP NEW YORKERS SUBJECT: FOR THE CHILDREN’S SAKE, PLEASE HEAR ME OUT I’m not so presumptuous to think I fully understand why so many white evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump. But I understand more than I did only a few […]