Pat Robertson, the televangelist who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1988, died on Thursday at the age of 93.
televangelist who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1988, died on Thursday at the age of 93. The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960, announced the news on Friday morning.
Robertson is widely credited with ushering Christian-conservatism into mainstream politics in the 1980s and 1990s, and laying the groundwork for the modern right-wing culture war. He has a history of extreme, bigoted commentary — including that gay people and abortion caused 9/11, that Haitians deserved the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the island nation, and that feminists are evil.
Robertson was very much an active participant in the modern, far-right Christian-conservatism he helped create. He prayed for Donald Trump to win the 2020 election, and described those trying to stop him from winning as “revolting against what God’s plan is for America.”
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