The Opinions Essay

Opinion Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t?

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Opinions columnist, 2007-2022
September 1, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
(Brian Stauffer for The Washington Post)

In many American places on a pleasant Sunday afternoon it is possible, as I recently did, to have coffee in the city at a bohemian cafe draped with rainbow banners, then to drive 30 or 45 minutes into the country to find small towns where Confederate and Trump flags are flown. The United States sometimes feels like two nations, divided by adornments defiantly affirming their political and cultural affinities.

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