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Why conservative Christians are tolerating vulgarity and lust

Why conservative Christians are tolerating vulgarity and lust

A raunchy, outsider, boobs-and-booze ethos has elbowed its way into the conservative power class, accelerated by the rise of Donald Trump.

Ruth Graham

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The “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America” 2024 pin-up calendar features old-school images of sexiness – bikinis, a red sports car, a bubble bath. The models are influencers and aspiring politicians familiar to the very online pro-Trump right. In one image, a BlazeTV host in a short skirt lights a copy of The New York Times on fire with a cigar. Another model, former National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch, hoists two rifles.

Donald Trump has pitched himself as a protector of Christians, not a pious fellow traveller. Bloomberg

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