Why Have Most of American evangelical Christians Supported Trump?
-- Written in Chinese in 2019
(Translated from Chinese by Google Translate)
Obama is a well-known celebrity all over the world. He served as President of the United States for two terms and is also an important figure in the history of the United States and the world. Because of him, American and world history are different. And today, Jack. Jack Ryan is almost unknown, but he has a very close relationship with Obama's political career. If he hadn't made some stupid things and made a wrong choice, Obama might still be a professor at the University of Chicago. , the United States and the world may be different.
Ryan is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. What makes him even more outstanding than Obama is that he also received an MBA from Harvard Business School. After earning a double degree in law and business, Ryan did not directly enter the legal world or the business world. Instead, he went to work in a refugee camp in South America. Afterwards, he joined the investment bank Goldman Sachs, rising to become a partner at Goldman Sachs. After Goldman Sachs went public, Ryan had a net worth of tens of millions. After he resigned from Goldman Sachs, he went to teach at a Catholic high school in Chicago. This school is located in the south side of Chicago and is mainly composed of black students from low-income families.
In 2004, a Republican senator from Illinois retired. Ryan ran for office as a Republican and successfully qualified as the Republican senatorial candidate. He had to face the Democratic senatorial candidate. With Ryan's background and talent , his chances of winning the Senate are not very small. Guess who is the Democratic candidate running against Ryan? His name is Hussein Obama. At that time, Obama had a degree from a prestigious school, but his political qualifications and background were not strong. Of course, Obama has an advantage that Ryan can hardly compete with, and that is his skin color. Although Obama is a mixture of white and black, he chose to be black.
During the 2004 Illinois Senate campaign, Obama's media coalition dealt a fatal blow to Ryan when they sued to force the court to release Ryan's divorce and child custody documents. Ryan was previously married to a Hollywood actress and has a child. Ryan and his ex-wife mutually agreed to seal their divorce and custody documents to protect their children. Obama's team and his media in Chicago are very clear that there must be some stains in Ryan's divorce documents. For Republican Ryan, those personal stains will end his political life because Republicans have concerns about their candidate. Higher moral standards. Sure enough, Ryan's divorce and custody documents show that he once took his ex-wife to several nightclubs and asked his ex-wife to have sex with him in public at the club. This is undoubtedly a stain on Ryan's morality. After Ryan's scandal made headlines in the media, many Republican voters quickly abandoned Ryan based on moral standards. That was not the end of Ryan's campaign. Ryan himself quickly announced his withdrawal from the race. As a result, there was no election. With no opponent, Obama easily won the Senate race, and the rest is history.
During the 2004 Illinois Senate campaign, Obama's media coalition dealt a fatal blow to Ryan when they sued to force the court to release Ryan's divorce and child custody documents. Ryan was previously married to a Hollywood actress and has a child. Ryan and his ex-wife mutually agreed to seal their divorce and custody documents to protect their children. Obama's team and his media in Chicago are very clear that there must be some stains in Ryan's divorce documents. For Republican Ryan, those personal stains will end his political life because Republicans have concerns about their candidate. Higher moral standards. Sure enough, Ryan's divorce and custody documents show that he once took his ex-wife to several nightclubs and asked his ex-wife to have sex with him in public at the club. This is undoubtedly a stain on Ryan's morality.
After Ryan's scandal made headlines in the media, many Republican voters quickly abandoned Ryan based on moral standards. That was not the end of Ryan's campaign. Ryan himself quickly announced his withdrawal from the race. As a result, two years later, Obama was elected President of the United States and was re-elected for another four years. Those ten years were a decade of great changes in the nature of the United States. So, can we imagine that if Ryan's divorce documents were not made public, and even if they were, Republican voters did not abandon him because of his personal moral stains, and if he did not withdraw from the race himself, would it be possible to win the Senate race, thereby Stop Obama's political career? Not necessarily, because Obama also had advantages in the election at that time, but at least Ryan had the possibility of winning. When he withdrew from the campaign, he handed the victory of the election to Obama.
In the past few decades, many Republicans have ruined their political future because of their moral stains or even because of a bad word. Republican voters have higher requirements for their party's candidates and not only try to elect Outstanding party spokespersons must be selected, and moral role models must be selected. A Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia was dug up by the Democratic Party and made a racially charged remark decades ago. The political future of that Republican politician was immediately over. On the contrary, on the Democratic side, it is not a problem at all. It is still the same elections, the same winning choices, and the same governing in Washington was no election. With no opponent, Obama easily won the Senate race, and the rest is history.
In the past few decades, many Republicans have ruined their political future because of their moral stains or even because of a bad word. Republican voters have higher requirements for their party's candidates and not only try to elect Outstanding party spokespersons must be selected, and moral role models must be selected. A Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia was dug up by the Democratic Party and made a racially charged remark decades ago. The political future of that Republican politician was immediately over. On the contrary, on the Democratic side, it is not a problem at all. It is still the same elections, the same winning choices, and the same governing in Washington.
Fast forward to 2016, the Republican presidential primary election introduced an alternative politician, Trump. Not only did he have no political experience, but he also had many moral stains. Not only was he criticized by political opponents and the media, Trump also mentioned it in his own book. Admit or even boast about your wrongdoings. Therefore, Trump’s moral stains are not just accusations, but facts acknowledged by himself. Interestingly, among the seventeen candidates in the Republican primaries, Trump, who had the most moral stains and had no political experience, won and qualified as the Republican presidential candidate.
During the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, I supported Senator Coos from Texas and wrote articles explaining my views and reasons. At that time, Trump and Cruz were in the lead, so I analyzed their ideas and policies. Putting aside their moral character, I chose to support Cruz in terms of ideas and policies. Of course, moral character is not a factor. According to my prediction at the time, Trump was unlikely to become the Republican presidential candidate due to moral reasons, because there were a large number of evangelical Christians among the voters in the Republican primary, and many of them could not accept Trump as a Republican. candidate.
In contrast, Cruz, who has conservative ideas and no obvious moral stains, should be a better choice. I cast my vote firmly for Coos in the Texas caucuses, and I also pulled some votes for Cruz among my friends. Complying with my wishes, Cruz won in his home state of Texas. Previously, Trump had won several northern states and gained considerable momentum. But Cruz' supporters don't seem to be giving up, because they believe there is a firewall of evangelical Christians in the South that can ultimately block Trump's path to the candidacy. The result was to the surprise of those of us who were anti-Trump. The firewall collapsed and Trump won these southern red states. Then he defeated sixteen opponents by a large margin and became the Republican candidate in 2016.
After the 2016 Republican Convention, I went out of town to meet two devout Christian friends with excellent moral character. To my surprise, they were ardent Trump supporters when it came to the Republican primaries, and they expressed dissatisfaction with Coons. The 2016 Republican Convention is different from previous conventions. Generally speaking, although the competition between candidates is fierce during the primaries, almost all support the winning candidate after the primaries. However, the 2016 Republican Convention is Unprecedentedly, other defeated candidates did not express support for Trump, and some people continued to oppose Trump. On the one hand, it was because Trump had severely damaged other competitors during the primary election process; on the other hand, they believed that Trump’s words and deeds would definitely lead to defeat. Drop the election. Coos, who came in second in the preselection and had the most fierce battle with Trump, unexpectedly accepted the invitation from the Trump campaign to speak at the 2016 Republican Convention.
After the 2016 Republican Convention, I went out of town to meet two devout Christian friends with excellent moral character. To my surprise, they were ardent Trump supporters when it came to the Republican primaries, and they expressed dissatisfaction with Coons. The 2016 Republican Convention is different from previous conventions. Generally speaking, although the competition between candidates is fierce during the primaries, almost all support the winning candidate after the primaries. However, the 2016 Republican Convention is Unprecedentedly, other defeated candidates did not express support for Trump, and some people continued to oppose Trump. On the one hand, it was because Trump had severely damaged other competitors during the primary election process; on the other hand, they believed that Trump’s words and deeds would definitely lead to defeat. Drop the election. Coos, who came in second in the preselection and had the most fierce battle with Trump, unexpectedly accepted the invitation from the Trump campaign to speak at the 2016 Republican Convention.
At that time, Coos had many supporters, and the Trump campaign undoubtedly hoped that Coos would express support for Trump at the convention, so that more Coos supporters would switch to the Trump camp. At the convention, Coos gave a dozens of speeches, expounding on conservative ideas and policies. He did not mention supporting Trump’s campaign. Instead, at the end of his speech, he reminded Republicans that they should use their own Vote your conscience. The representatives present and the Trump supporters in front of the TV were very dissatisfied with Cruz's speech.
After the Republican primaries, it was not easy for me to switch from being a supporter of Cruz to supporting Trump. Differences in ideas and policies, especially Trump’s moral stains, made it difficult for me to support him. Even though I have always voted Republican since I was able to vote. But I was surprised to find that my two moral and devout Christian friends did not become Trump supporters only after Trump won the primaries. They supported Trump during the primaries. I was a little confused and asked in my mind, if after the primaries, between Hillary and Trump, you can have to choose to vote for Trump, but how can you support Trump in the primaries, on the debate stage, There are sixteen candidates with high moral character. Why don't you support one of them? Especially, you are devout Christians with high moral standards. In particular, you are devout Christians with high moral standards. Why would you support someone who shows moral stains when you have other options? Why can't I support Trump when I have no choice? Furthermore, why can't you be like those who hold the moral high ground and cannot vote for Trump no matter what, because you are more qualified to be such a moral guardian? I didn't ask my American Christian friends directly, I just looked for the answer in my heart, and , I know that if Trump can win the Republican primary, there must be many Christian supporters like my friend.
As the 2016 election progressed, my enthusiasm for supporting Trump continued to rise, transforming from a reluctant supporter to an enthusiastic supporter. However, what I never expected was that the news broke a month before the election. In a huge "October surprise", the media played a 2005 recording of Trump with the "Access Hollywood" program and host. From that recording, we can hear Trump and the host talking dirty words and extremely disrespectful words to women. They are saying that only you are famous and you can do things to women that insult them. Even though it was a private conversation, it was absolutely wrong and reflected their moral stain. Through the media, the Internet and social media, almost all Americans, at least all American voters who care about the election and want to vote, heard Trump's speech. No one doubted that it was not Trump's voice, and Trump himself also came out to apologize. , but said it was a private conversation, he changed the subject and attacked Clinton, saying that Clinton was really sexually assaulting women.
After the "Access Hollywood" recording was released, my first reaction was that Trump's campaign was over and Hillary had won the election. It was simply a nightmare. I couldn't imagine it and it was absolutely hard to accept. That was it. Simple, Hillary became President of the United States. So, why is it said that Trump lost the election before the votes were cast? The reason is simple, because no one has said such a thing, and there is video evidence to prove it, and he can turn around in October. Still, many Republican celebrities have come out to call for Trump to withdraw from the election and allow Vice Presidential candidate Pence, who has high moral character, to continue the election. Everyone knows that if Pence is elected, he will definitely lose, because the support for Trump cannot be transferred directly to Pence. Moreover, the competition between the candidates of the two parties is very fierce. If Trump retires, Hillary will definitely Winning, but if Trump doesn't step down, it's also a loss, because many people who planned to vote for him will change their minds, especially many women. How can they vote for Trump again?
For myself, I have not completely given up the idea of supporting Trump, because eight years of Obama's presidency, plus four years of Hillary's, and possibly another four years of reelection, are unthinkable. But my hand in voting for Trump is even heavier. For such a morally tainted person, how can I support him as the president of the United States? I sent a text message to the American Christian friend mentioned above. I guess the friend will say that considering Trump’s recording, it is a little difficult to support Trump, or that he has to reluctantly support Trump because his opponent is Hillary. However, my friend said that we still support Trump and our support for Trump has not changed. Why? Why can’t we first condemn Trump’s dirty words and then support him as a last resort? At least, show that you are on the moral high ground. In the end, I found an excuse for myself, that is, I absolutely cannot let Hillary become the president of the United States. In other words, I voted against Hillary, not for Trump. I know that there are many Cruz supporters all voted for Trump with this mentality, but my two moral and devout evangelical Christian friends were not like this. They voted for Trump, and more importantly, they voted for Trump. What's interesting is that they supported Trump during the Republican primaries.
After the 2016 election, it was incredible that Trump was elected President of the United States. Exit polls showed that 85% of evangelical Christian voters voted for Trump, which was the highest proportion of all the groups surveyed who voted for Trump. , that is to say, evangelical voters as a whole support Trump, and most of them have supported Trump from the beginning, during the primaries. This is actually the most difficult for people to understand, because evangelical Christian voters have always supported Trump. The requirements for candidates’ character are relatively high. Since most evangelical voters are in the Republican camp, the Republican Party is a party that pays more attention to the character of its candidates. Ryan, whom I mentioned earlier, if he were a Democratic candidate, he would definitely not withdraw from the election because of those personal stains. But because Ryan was a Republican, he was held to a higher standard and had to withdraw from the race. However, in the 2016 presidential election, conservative evangelical Republicans underwent a complete change. Most of them became the most loyal and active supporters of the morally tainted and outspoken Trump.
The changes among evangelical Christians in the 2016 presidential election can be interpreted from the following aspects.
In the past, for conservative evangelical Republicans, they had to elect a candidate who not only represented their ideals, but also had high moral character and was a moral role model with a clean past. In addition, such a successor would have to win an election. Over the years, among the Republican candidate pool, such successors have become increasingly rare, almost to the point of being impossible. Because many Republicans, especially evangelical voters, have such demands, many Republican candidates simply do not dare to participate in political elections. They are afraid that the media will expose their indecent past. This does not mean running for election. The present moral state of man is not the past history. Republican politicians like Jack mentioned earlier do not dare to run for office. Although they have repented, done many good deeds, hold conservative ideals, and are willing to pursue conservative policies, they are not willing to run for office due to the demands of conservative evangelical Christians. Politicians who are like moral pacesetters, these Republicans with a history of indecent behavior are afraid of them and dare not participate in elections without fear.
In addition, for many years, conservative evangelical Christians have had an illusion about politicians who represent their own ideals. That is, they hope that the moral pacesetters and friendly politicians they promote will fight against the accomplices of Democratic politicians, including mainstream media, Hollywood and American universities unreservedly attack Republican politicians maliciously, but these friendly good Republican politicians have no power to fight back. In fact, they simply don’t know how to fight back against the attacks from Democratic politicians and their accomplices.
In the 2008 Republican primaries, McCain, a hero of the Vietnam War, was grandly launched as the Republican presidential candidate. McCain was not only a hero of the Vietnam War, but also a Republican politician who cooperated with the Democratic Party. He was also loved by the mainstream media. Although the then Democratic candidate Obama had many advantages, he was a politician with very little political experience, and he had many historical problems, such as his close relationship with the American domestic terrorist Al, and his plans to enter politics. It was all arranged by Al. Many Republican campaign strategists asked McCain to ask during the debate why Obama has close relations with domestic terrorists. They believe that is Obama's biggest weakness because most American voters will not elect a politician like that. Their president, and the American mainstream media tried their best to protect and defend Obama. Tens of millions of Americans watch the presidential debates. If McCain can question Obama at the debate, more people will know about Obama's relationship with domestic terrorists, but McCain firmly refuses to mention Obama in front of anyone every day. Scandals, including a reluctance to mention Obama's relationship with Ayer during debates.
When McCain cooperated with the Democratic Party and opposed the Republican Party, the mainstream media in the United States trumpeted McCain. McCain had a very wrong estimate. He thought that the mainstream media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc., would be behind him. When running against Obama, we won’t attack him. He was wrong, a big mistake. In order to send Obama to the White House, the mainstream media in the United States launched a fierce attack on McCain and his running mate Palin. McCain also adopted a high profile and refused to fight back against the media's onslaught, which included lies. . What’s even more incredible is that when the stock market crashed in 2008, McCain actually suspended his campaign and said he would return to Washington to help rescue the stock market crash. He claimed that campaigning on behalf of the party was no longer important, and that the rise and fall of the country should be based on it. First and foremost, it is undoubtedly a high-profile performance. Obama doesn't care about that at all and still engages in campaign activities and canvassing votes. In contrast, voters can clearly see that one candidate is really willing to run for president, while the other is trying to stand on the moral high ground and appear high-minded. Many Republican voters are very dissatisfied with McCain's "gentleman" behavior. . Sure enough, in the 2008 presidential election, McCain, a veteran hero of the Vietnam War and with decades of political experience, was defeated by Obama, who had no political experience.
In 2012, the Republican Party introduced another good guy, the Boy Scout-turned-Mormon Romney. There is no doubt that Romney is the most moral and noble presidential candidate that the Republican Party has elected in the past few decades. He has not had any scandals. He has been married to his wife for decades and has four children. Not to mention taking drugs, Romney smokes continuously. The wine is not sticky. Generally speaking, Mormons abide by moral standards, and Romney is a moral model among Mormons. The mainstream media organized an investigation by white reporters, but could not find any historical stain on Romney. In joking terms, Romney's life was boring. Many Republicans who support Romy believe that the media will not be able to find any problems with a clean person like Romney. They are too naïve. The American media found fatal flaws in Romney. First, he "killed" a man. The fired employees were because Luo Mi once founded a consulting firm specializing in corporate restructuring. After a company was restructured, some employees were fired. One of them got cancer and later died. The media's reasoning was that if the company wasn't restructured, people wouldn't be laid off, would have better health insurance, wouldn't die, Therefore, Romney killed the fired employee; secondly, he did not care about the poor in the United States, because at a campaign fund-raising meeting, he said that he did not need to care about the votes of the 49% of the people. He pointed out that Those voters who do not pay federal income taxes find it difficult for them to vote for the Republican Party. Therefore, Romy's words were taken out of context, saying that he did not care about the lives of the poor at all. The good man Romney has no ability to counterattack the media's attacks. What's even worse is that Romney has gained hundreds of millions of dollars in assets through his own efforts, but he is not proud of it. Instead, he looks like he feels sorry for the poor. Being attacked by the Democratic Party and the media is also a self-inflicted problem. At that time, Henry Ray, the majority leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, baselessly accused Romney of not paying taxes. Romney did not dare to come out and quarrel with Ray. The media made a big fuss, but Romney's rebuttal was very weak. Later, it turned out that Romney had paid taxes, but the bad influence had already gone out and had a negative impact on Romney's election.
In addition, although Bush was elected to two terms as president, Bush inflicted great pain on many of his supporters during his second term. On Bush's policy of invading Iraq, the vast majority of Republicans supported Bush. Later, some leftists in the Democratic Party and the media began to accuse Bush of lying to deceive the United States into entering the Iraq war. Yes, Saddam did not have so-called weapons of mass destruction, but that was not a lie by Bush, but a mistake by Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Faced with the accusations from the left and the media, Bush responded with a high profile, believing that the facts were the facts and did not defend himself. The result is that when Bush was in office, most Americans believed that Bush lied to a certain extent and led the United States into the Iraq War.
Facts have proved that the introduction of Trump, a weirdo, weirdo, and serious moral defect, was a great victory in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Trump lived up to expectations and used all his martial arts skills to defeat his opponents and complete the task. Complete the impossible task and aspire to the White House. In the past two years of Trump’s tenure, the style and ability of Trump’s fighters and the results he achieved have further demonstrated the wise choice of the 2016 Republican voters. To give an example, in the matter of Justice Kavanaugh , other Republicans The president must have given up, but Trump refused to give up, and ultimately helped Kavanaugh win the war with the Democratic Party. Not only did Kavanaugh become the Supreme Court, but he also defended his innocence and protected his family. Of course, not Republican voters, especially evangelical Christians, completely agree with Trump’s actions, his tweets, and his attitude. In fact, many Republican voters to a certain extent hope that Trump will use different methods and be more Be gentle and don't attack your opponents on Twitter.
However, they also know very well that a moral role model, a good old man, and a high-profile person cannot fight an ugly opponent in the cesspool of American politics. Trump is not their best candidate. Elections are the only option and the best option. The most important thing is that Christians who are familiar with the Bible know that God has chosen many people who have more moral flaws, committed more crimes, and are bigger than Trump. For example, King David is the person who is most in line with God’s heart, but he once Is a murderer.
There is a very interesting poll. Over the past two years, Trump’s approval rating among Republicans has been above 90%. Few Republican presidents in the past have received such high support within the party. Why can Trump do so? Get such high support? One of the reasons is that Trump is a hard-working and extremely efficient politician. He does not advocate conservative ideas like any think tank, but his policies largely represent the positions and ideas of the conservative Republican Party. He appoints A conservative judge, if he is re-elected, the U.S. Supreme Court will become a conservative-dominated court, including hundreds of lower federal judges. He opposes abortion, promotes policies that respect life, opposes illegal immigration, and Loose government controls on the economy, and so on.
In short, Republicans finally understand that the Democratic Party is completely unethical in selecting candidates, but they hold the Republican Party morally hostage in choosing Trump, and those so-called Republicans who "always oppose Trump" actually don't care about conservatives. Whether ideas and policies can be advanced in the United States, because they are not true Republicans, nor are they true conservatives. Trump's policies protect more babies in the mother's womb, and those who "will always oppose Trump" Not only does he not give Trump a thumbs up, but he continues to oppose Trump, which is already telling.
For those Republicans who really care about conservative ideas and policies, including evangelical Christians, they will not agree with some of Trump’s attitudes, speeches, and tweets, but they will continue to support Trump’s policies and are ready to By sending Trump to the White House again in 2020, they are not electing a moral role model, let alone a national pastor, but an effective politician. It needs to be pointed out that one of the core teachings of Christianity is to give people a second chance, and Trump should also have such an opportunity.
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