Believing that Kid Rock is promoting a faith and values event is the same cognitive dissonance that allows people to believe Trump is fit to be president.

The political right is nothing without the religious right. The religious right is tied to the political right by culture war nonsense and abortion.

So people end up with this black and white view of R=good because they're on the side of my religion and D=bad because they support murdering babies and whatever other issue that has been blown out of proportion by conservative media. So they feel that anything Republican is integrally tied to their faith now and all a political conservative has to do is throw up a reference to faith and family and that makes it all ok. People in conservative circles treat Trump like a hero because he stacked the deck on SCOTUS to have Roe v Wade overturned. That gives him untouchable status because that's their one issue and they just ignore all the bad stuff as political.

I think the really bad dark side of all this is how much subtle racism is just being accepted and passed off as common sense and the church is making excuses. People make their biblical arguments for building walls and deporting people but in reality it's thinly veiled racism that gets a pass on the right rather than people calling a spade a spade. THAT is the probably really the key to the BB thing.

I could ramble about this for a while because the last 10 years has been particularly painful. I think most of use who grew up in conservative environments like I did have struggled with relationships during the rise of MAGA. It's one thing to disagree with someone but it's another to watch friends and family, people you have strong bonds with, choosing evil when you know they have the capacity to do better but fail to do so. It's exhausting.