Evangelicals’ Support of Donald Trump

By: Deji Yesufu

On Wednesday last week, the House of Representatives in the United States Congress passed a resolution impeaching the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. The impeachment process would be the climax of a battle that has gone on between the US President and the House of Representatives, led by the Democrat – Nancy Pelosi. Prior to this, Trump had undergone a tumultuous tenure with the House determined to make Trump’s first term in office impossible. Immediately he was elected into office in late 2016, the allegation that was levied against him was that he had collaborated with Russia to undermine the US electoral system and that this was the impetus for his victory at the polls.

After months of investigation, reports from Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, showed that Trump was not guilty as charged. That storm had barely died down before the Democrats brought forth allegations that Trump had abused his oath of office by asking the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden’s son on corruption charges. Biden is running to be President on the Democratic Party’s ticket in 2020 and, Democrats argue, Trump’s getting a foreign country to investigate him was Trump seeking to cast Biden in a bad light before voters and this was an abuse of office. This is why Donald Trump was impeached.

Unlike impeachment processes in other democracies, being impeached in the US Congress is not automatic removal from office. The House of Representatives are the ones who impeach a President and they then make recommendations to the Senate, who sit in a trial over the President and decide whether or not the President should be impeached. In the US today, the Senate is controlled by the Republicans and an impeachment trial brought to them by a House led by Democrats has a 99.999% chance of not sailing through. In fact as of the time of this writing, Nancy Pelosi has refused to send the impeachment proceedings formally to the Senate. She knows that it would be a waste of time. The Democrats have said that though they are sure the impeaching of the President of the US will not remove Trump from office, they are content with the fact that he would only be the third President in US history to be impeached and that this is likely to stain his re-election bid in 2020.

In all of these debates on impeachment, one voting block has found itself in the middle of political punches. These are the evangelicals. Evangelicals are Christian Protestant body of churches that hold to biblical values which they contend are the values that the founding fathers of America believed in. These evangelicals are almost always Republicans because the Republican Party, although wholly political, still holds to basic Christian values that Evangelical uphold. History has it that while the Democrats supported Slavery at some point, Republicans always opposed it. It is also on record that Republicans supported many civil rights campaigns that ultimately ended segregation of blacks in the USA.

America today is becoming increasingly godless, as Christianity is continually regarded as an antediluvian concept – and the leading purveyors of these ideologies are the Democrats. All of the basic values of righteousness which that country was built on has been thrown out of the window. The Barack Obama Presidency, a Democrat, was at the forefront of this war against Christianity. In his time the American government became increasingly secular, with all basic Christian practices thrown out of the window. Christmas became a mere holiday. “God” became “world”, and all kinds of liberal thinking crept into government. While American Christians, mostly Evangelicals, could bear with some of these things, two things they could not bear were the increasing acceptance of homosexuality and abortion in America. Under Obama, homosexuality reigned supreme. It flourished so much that the LGBTQ community became tyrants in the society. State sponsored abortion programs were everywhere and America was descending into the dregs.

When Trump ran for office, he was clearly not a righteous man. Donald Trump had baggage that many would be ashamed of identifying with him. Yet he had one thing going for him: he was not a Democrat and somehow he made a commitment to uphold basic Republican values. When Americans would go to the polls in 2016, the voting Evangelical block voted massively for him and he won. Immediately he entered into office, Trump removed all of Obama’s idols from the White House and replaced them with biblical things. He stopped state sponsored abortion programs and stopped government’s open support for LGBTQ communities. For these alone, the Evangelical block are genuinely thankful. When the news of his impeachment came forward, it was the evangelical block that stood the most against his removal.

The question often arise: if Trump has all these moral baggage that he has, why does the evangelical block, with all their claim to gospel integrity, still support him? The answer is simple: Donald Trump represents a party that condemns the twin evil destroying the American moral fabric today. These evils are abortion and homosexuality. It does not matter who runs on the Republican Party ticket, as long as they pro-life and they discourage the flourishing of homosexuality in society, evangelicals would support such a party.

This writer is an evangelical Nigerian. Someone would ask: what is your business with American politics and their religion? Plenty. America is the leading supporter of Christian missions in the world today. While the American government may not invest a dollar in missions, the Evangelical community in America does. In fact they invest massively in mission outreaches to various communities and countries in Africa and whatever affects them will ultimately affect us. If the liberal ideologies of the Democratic Party takes over America today, that nation would be sold to unrighteousness and the words of scriptures would be fulfilled on them: righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to its people (Proverbs 14:34). It is righteousness that brought America to where she is today and sin will bring her down. If America goes down, mission support to African countries will deplete also and this will affect outreaches to unreached areas here. So America’s politics is our own politics also.

One is glad that Trump’s impeachment will fail. In fact since it appears that Donald Trump thrives in controversy, then these impeachment proceeding, rather than affect his chances in the 2020 bid to be President for a second term, might actually be the catalyst that would launch him to a second term in office. If this happens, you can predict those who would be the happiest: American evangelicals, of course.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the books Victor Banjo and Half a Millennium. He leads a Reformed Bible Study group in University of Ibadan every Saturday morning.

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President Trump !!

that's why they call una mumu. don't be equally yoked with an unbeliever or is it not in the bible again?

[s]When Trump ran for office, he was clearly not a righteous man. Donald Trump had baggage that many would be ashamed of identifying with him.[/s]

By christain values they mean hate towards LGBT,Imigrants,Muslims,Atheists, and misogyny, teaching pseudoscience as science,religious intolerance,racism,war mongering...you name it.The negatives in America duly encapsulated by the phrase "christain values"
From just the years 2010 and now,it has declined by 15% in the U.S,and falling at a faster pace.
In thinking nations,your faith is a done deal bro.

beckNcall:
that's why they call una mumu. don't be equally yoked with an unbeliever or is it not in the bible again?

[s]When Trump ran for office, he was clearly not a righteous man. Donald Trump had baggage that many would be ashamed of identifying with him.[/s]

Trump is more righteous than all the Democrats combined together

In The History of Humanity, GOD does not work with those who claim to be Perfect.

GOD Works with those who are willing to be Used..

President Donald Trump is what I call a Willing tool in GOD'S Hands for these times..

President Trump as President is The Finger of GOD ALMIGHTY... That is the Reason the Hosts of Hell and their agents here on Earth Have done Everything possible to take Him out, but failed..

Today all the Accusations of women and all that lies no one is hearing about them anymore.. That's to show u how wicked devil is..

The Presidency of Donald Trump is a Mercy Period for this world.. He and Benjami Netanyahu of Isreal are the Major Leaders used by GOD today That are Hindering the Globalist government of the antichrist..

The So called Climate Change Scam being used by the Globalist is to bring in the One World and New world Order, but many are blind to all these..

President Donald Trump Has being a Blessing to Isreal.. GOD ALMIGHTY says " He that Blessed you ( Isreal) Shall be Blessed..

If JESUS Tarries, The USA 2020 Elections will be the Greatest Lanslide victory in the History of the USA.. What the Leftist have Succeeded in doing is to Make President Trump more Popular..

chiefolododo:
Trump is more righteous than a the Democrats combined together

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beckNcall:


laughter cant even make me reply

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