The Evangelicals are deluding themselves about Trump. Many young people delude themselves about family, future, and their own prospects for success. Some fewer people establish their own lies or delusions about themselves to excuse their own fears and inactivity.
Unfortunately the "South," as I have experienced it, is a hotbed of this lack of self esteem. Looking for reasons to fail, young people in the South squander their lives in pursuit of "bankrupt values": restoration of the past, fighting or refighting the uncivil Civil war, holding onto values (family, religious, personal) that even they don't truly believe in. And so they live out lives of day-to-day hypocrisy. Pharisees all!
They become the wasted talents of the current generation.
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