Tim Barton Attempts To Make The Biblical Case For Trump's Tariffs

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Barton’s argument is utter nonsense and is a prime example of the way in which Christian nationalists routinely misrepresent passages from the Bible and rip them out of context in order to promote their right-wing political agenda. In this regard he continues to follow in the footsteps of his father David, who has claimed that Jesus’ parables and other scriptural passages mean that God is opposed to minimum wage laws, capital gains taxes, and ‘socialist union kind of stuff.’”

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