Disgraced one-term President Donald Trump is the last person you think would be popular with evangelicals. He's everything the Bible warns us about in a human being. Back in September, 74% of self-described white evangelicals said that investigations into wrongdoing by Trump should not continue, compared to only 40% of everyone surveyed who says that.
Well, that support for the most corrupt, dishonest, and vulgar president in our lifetimes may be waning with evangelicals.
Vanity Fair reports:
"There's a lot of people who share a lot of our similar thoughts but don't want to go on record," Bob Vander Plaats, one of America's top evangelical thought leaders, who hesitantly backed Trump in 2016, tells me. "You can see that it's almost a silent majority right now," he says. Everett Piper, a Washington Times columnist and the former president of an evangelical university, published a post-midterm polemic last month arguing that Trump is "hurting…not helping" American evangelicals. "The take-home of this past week is simple: Donald Trump has to go," Piper added. "If he's our nominee in 2024, we will get destroyed." Earlier this month, televangelist James Robison, who served as a spiritual adviser to Trump, likened the former president to a "little elementary schoolchild" while addressing the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. Another major evangelical leader, who requested anonymity, tells me there's "no doubt" that if Trump wins the primary, Republicans will "get crushed in the general."
Make no mistake about it, they knew before he was elected in 2016 that he was a garbage human being. It's all about pushing the pro-life agenda with evangelicals. And by overturning Roe, they actually helped us in the midterms. I wonder how much they sold their souls for?
