{"id":23826,"date":"2016-09-10T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23826"},"modified":"2016-09-10T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:54:35","slug":"is-trump-a-bircher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/is-trump-a-bircher\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump a Bircher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"0910Trump\" border=\"0\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0910Trump.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"0910Trump\" width=\"360\" \/>Rump Dump Trump donned his Bircher persona for his visit to the Values Voter Summit, a den of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, who value greed, hate, homophobia, misogyny, racism and violence.&nbsp; They are the exact opposite of authentic Christians.&nbsp; Trump was right at home with them.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1>John Birch Society Ascendant in Trump&#39;s Speech to Evangelical Christians<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">At the Values Voter Summit, they&#39;re partying like it was 1964. 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