Trump, they declare, "fueled white American nationalism
with xenophobic appeals and religious intolerance at the expense of gospel
values [and] democratic principles."
They charge him with mocking women and the sanctity of
marriage vows, disregarding facts, worshiping "wealth and shameful
materialism," and taking an already-weakened "culture of civility to
nearly unprecedented" depths with his vulgarity and ugly personal attacks.
They describe Trump's campaign as the most "extreme version of a history of racialized politics" that has ever been pursued, also noting with disdain the silence of white evangelicals in the face of such behavior. Their silence throughout that history, those Christian leaders declared, "set the environment for what we see now."
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