America's politicians are scummy, secular televangelists

These are the guys who are supposed to "make America great again"? Really?

Barack Obama in 2008.
(Image credit: Illustrated | Image courtesy Richard Baker/In Pictures/Corbis)

On any given Sunday in America, you can turn on the television and find an overly tan man in a glossy suit with his beautiful wife — "Isn't she just the greatest, folks?" — asking you to give him money. Send in your donation, he says, and with God's blessing, you'll be richer and happier than ever before.

Most of us realize this is complete and utter nonsense.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.