Nixon asked people to pray for him and ended with “God bless America” to remind the nation that he was religious and therefore moral, and thus either innocent or deserving of forgiveness. Trump is doing the same with his gaggle of evangelical bootlickers.
Andrew L. Seidel
Andrew L. Seidel is a constitutional attorney and Vice President of Strategic Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. His first book The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American was burned by a Tennessee preacher. His latest book is American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom. Find Andrew on social media: @AndrewLSeidel
