{"id":56541,"date":"2016-12-01T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wa_po_michael_schulson-why_electing_donald_trump_was_a_triumph_for_the_pro\/"},"modified":"2016-12-01T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:30:32","slug":"wa_po_michael_schulson-why_electing_donald_trump_was_a_triumph_for_the_pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56541","title":{"rendered":"(Wa Po) Michael Schulson&#8211;Why electing Donald Trump was a triumph for the prosperity gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election of Donald Trump has lifted fringe ideologies, such as the alt-right, and little-known political figures, such as Trump\u2019s immigration adviser Kris Kobach, to new levels of national prominence.<\/p>\n<p>It has also elevated a group of evangelical Christian leaders and traditions that are often treated as marginal. Specifically, Trump\u2019s victory has been an unlikely triumph for the prosperity gospel, as well as for a handful of prosperity-oriented preachers from the world of African American televangelism.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect identifies as a Presbyterian. But his rhetoric during the campaign often reflected the language of the prosperity gospel, a diffuse American Christian movement that links faith, positive thinking and material wealth into \u201cthe American religion of winning,\u201d\u009d as journalist Jeff Sharlet described it this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/11\/30\/why-electing-a-billionaire-was-especially-a-triumph-for-the-prosperity-gospel\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election of Donald Trump has lifted fringe ideologies, such as the alt-right, and little-known political figures, such as Trump\u2019s immigration adviser Kris Kobach, to new levels of national prominence. It has also elevated a group of evangelical Christian leaders<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56541\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,582,149,168,616,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}