Donald Trump, who struggled to stay on message in two economic speeches this week, warned America it could face famine if his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, is elected. After Harris outlined her economic plan to reduce grocery prices by stopping price gouging, Trump took to TruthSocial to call ...
    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
      35·
      3 months ago

      He’s playing to his base: Conspiracy-minded fundamentalist Christians who are driven by fear, and have already ingrained associating the word famine with the book of Revelations.

      There is a not insignificant number of his most hardcore cultists who literally believe that Trump is a messianic figure: not literally Jesus, but a man chosen by God to do his will, and all of his failures and troubles are caused by people who are literally possessed by demons.

      The rest of his rhetoric is … these days, standard conservative demagoguery = anything I don’t like or agree with is communism.

      He’s the angry fascist hype man for supply side Jesus.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          7·
          3 months ago

          I’m not a Christian, but iirc, that’s a thing with several prophets: they argue they’re bad vessels for god’s message because they gamble or something and god proves to them that he chose them and they’ll do it.

          I did always assume they at least disavowed their former sinning ways though.