God is the ultimate trump. Everyone proclaims that God is on their side. Whatever the issue, someone somewhere will argue that they are doing what Jesus would do. Even in politics.
The Right long has claimed Scriptural warrant for using government to enforce Christian moral norms and wage war to promote American values. The Left prefers to claim God as the inspiration for government income distribution. Activists currently are deploying Christianity to sell expansive, expensive, redistributionist government.
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