Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him ā€œdonā€™t understandā€ their religion.

ā€œIā€™m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,ā€ Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trumpā€™s Christmas post. ā€œIf you are a Christian who supports him you donā€™t understand your own religion.ā€

Kinzinger, one of Trumpā€™s fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that ā€œTrump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he ainā€™t a Christian and heā€™s not ā€˜Godā€™s man.ā€™ā€

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    He wants to be in the Party That Cuts Taxes And Bombs Brown People, but notā€¦ you knowā€¦ the Party That Tweets Rudely.

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      Or, you know, not the party that is openly authoritarian and anti-democracy. We donā€™t have to like Kinzingerā€™s politics, but letā€™s not be fucking morons and misrepresent the reasons why heā€™s turned against his own party. Thatā€™s good for no one.

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        We donā€™t have to like Kinzingerā€™s politics.

        Oh thank god.

        Side note, Iā€™m still angry at the modern GOP for making me agree with the likes of Kinsinger, Cheney, and Romney on some things. Thatā€™s not okay.

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        not the party that is openly authoritarian and anti-democracy

        Its a two-party system. If you write off one of the parties, what kind of democracy do you even have left? Yeah, the liberals are all about a softer, gentler, more egalitarian form of drone strike / police state / economic shock doctrine. But moving towards the lesser of two evils still leaves you in Hell.

        letā€™s not be fucking morons and misrepresent the reasons why heā€™s turned against his own party

        Heā€™s turned against the party because they turned against him. Kritzenger was packed into the same district as Darin LaHood and chose to join the CNN talking heads parade rather than duke it out in a contested primary. Now heā€™s got far more invested in the Beltway Anti-Trump media cohort than his old pro-Trump Illinois GOP constituency. This is a career move, not an ideological shift. FFS, the man was close friends with Mike Pence his entire political career. He would be perfectly happy endorsing his home stateā€™s brand of right-wing talk radio weirdo if Pence hadnā€™t dripped out of the '24 primary months ago.