Last Saturday, Donald Trump promised in a Truth Social post, "we will demolish the Deep State, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our Country, we will rout the Fake News Media, we will evict Joe Biden from the White House, and we will FINISH THE JOB ONCE AND FOR ALL!" The 2024 election, he wrote, "is our final battle."
Trump's use of "cast out" will provoke amens from his most loyal constituency: white evangelicals. That sort of term is commonly used by evangelicals, Pentecostals and charismatic Christians to describe the exorcism of demons. That could be in a personal situation, say, to cast out the "demon" of homosexuality from a family member, or on a bigger stage, to cast out demons, in the form of political adversaries, from Washington.
This is a preview of Sarah Posner's latest article. Read the full column here.
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