QSI Special Edition: "The Trump Presidency's Religious and Racial Dimension"

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute."- Abraham Lincoln

“All men are naturally inclined to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity,” he once observed. “This is why religion is more frequently a source of confusion than of light in the political realm.” In the United States, he continued, “The tendency to equate our political with our Christian convictions causes politics to generate idolatry.” - Reinhold Niebuhr