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MAGA leaders keep bending reality to protect Trump even when the Epstein emails contradict every excuse.
The “God’s anointed” mindset shields political power the same way it has long shielded church power.
The refusal to confront evidence reveals a movement trained to distrust truth when it threatens loyalty.
Tim and April open the door to a deeper truth: once loyalty becomes a moral virtue, evidence stops carrying weight. That’s why a single email about “your boy Donnie” can set the internet on fire while barely registering among people who once treated furniture prices as signs of child trafficking. Shame works differently in this ecosystem; it attaches to the accuser, never the accused, which explains how church culture slides so easily into political protectionism. Longstanding habits of obedience create a kind of reflexive disbelief toward anything that threatens the chosen figure, and that conditioning proves far stronger than public documentation, survivor testimony, or basic moral consistency. Even the catfish-skull theatrics fit into that same pattern, where symbolism outranks fact the moment fact becomes inconvenient.
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Tim Whitaker [ [link removed] ] is the founder of The New Evangelicals [ [link removed] ], and April Ajoy [ [link removed] ] is the author of Star Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism And Finding True Faith. [ [link removed] ]

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