I don’t even know what to say. You should watch some hee haw. Find it somewhere. Here’s a start. (I grew up with this. Didn’t love it then. Still don’t)
In 1995 Russian operatives first contacted evangelical leadership and I believe, started funding the mega churches. They sure as hell weren’t paid for by the congregations. The reps sold their souls to Putin decades ago.
It’s so much larger than that. Putin, Epstein, Trump, white nationalist evangelism, it’s all related. The Southern strategy won, led ironically by the biggest yankee carpet bagger in history.
Not just now. The Republican Party has been spitting lies and propaganda through Fox since the 80s. They’ve been slowly taking over the government since Nixon. Putin has been funding them since the mid 90s for their own purposes. A divided nation odd weak and easy to control.
