The media pays a lot of attention to the things Donald Trump says at his rallies. But not much is said, if anything, about the prayers that are invoked at every rally before he speaks — prayers that are quite revealing about the state of the Republican Party today.
McKay Coppins decided to rectify that omission. In an article in The Atlantic (paywall) titled “The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally,” Coppins, a staff writer at the magazine, wrote: “For all the exhaustive coverage of Trump’s campaign rallies, even before the assassination attempt at one of them in July, relatively little attention has been paid to the prayers that start each one.”
These invocations typically don’t attract the interest of journalists, Coppins noted. But they “illuminate this perilous moment in American politics just as well as anything he (Trump) says from the podium,” he said, adding they also “help explain how the stakes of this year’s election have come to feel so apocalyptically high.”
Read my column about this illuminating feature of Trump’s rallies in the Free Press. (Photo above from Getty Images.)
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