'Golden orange god': Ex-Republican explains how hypocrisy of 'the evangelical church has failed this country'

Former Republican and Capitol Hill communications director Tara Setmayer on Tuesday criticized the right-wing evangelical Christians who continue to stand behind Donald Trump, by pointing to an ad that her organization, the conservative "Never Trump" The Lincoln Project, recently released.

MSNBC's Joy Reid, during a conversation with Setmayer on the latest episode of The ReidOut, played the ad, which was created in response to Trump's campaign team's recent "God created Trump" ad.

In The Lincoln Project's video, the narrator can be heard saying, "God made a dictator. God said I need a wicked man to lead the common folk with hatred and fear, so God made a dictator. God said I need a corrupt man who is above the law and immune from justice. So god made a dictator. God said I need a man who will use violence to seize power. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man whose followers will call black 'white,' call evil 'good,'and call criminals 'hostages.' So God made a dictator."

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Calling the ad "brilliant," Reid then asked Setmayer, "who's the target audience?"

The former GOP communications director replied, "Well, the target audience is actually everyone, because I think that at this point a lot of people are not paying attention. It's not necessarily the MAGAs who are in the death cult — the religious christian nationalists death cult, because obviously they're unmovable. But it's to everyone else who isn't part of that to get them to realize this is real, this is something that millions of people in this country believe, and we need to juxtapose that image with what the choices are coming up in this election cycle. it's a binary choice. Donald Trump's campaign actually has been showing a similar ad called 'God made Trump.' That's why we responded. We said, 'Oh, no, no, no. God also allowed for dictators too. So let's show the blasphemy that's coming out of the evangelical right with this god complex that Donald Trump and his supporters are putting forth here.'

Setmayer continued, "The evangelical church has failed this country. Not only have they failed America, but they've also failed Christianity. They are so far away from the gospels of Jesus. Can you imagine if the evangelical church actually followed what they claim to preach in the Bible? We wouldn't have had four years of Donald Trump. We wouldn't have had an insurrection on January 6th. We wouldn't have had the cruelty that we saw with kids in cages. We wouldn't have had this idea that character doesn't seem to matter anymore. Could you imagine the kind of country we would have had by now if evangelicals actually followed the Bible they claim to worship? Instead, they're following their golden orange god in Donald Trump. This our way of pointing that out."

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