Evangelical Christians Helped Elect Donald Trump - Their Time as a Major Political Force Is Comin

[ashling]

https://www.newsweek.com/2018/12/21/evangelicals-republicans-trump-millenials-1255745.html?fbclid=IwAR0Z09JO34hYgsBBFsscLtzIioQwGtV-wjrubtHEEdS4liuiP4_LAalZo0s

To be sure, evangelical Christians have been rewarded for their support of Trump after enduring eight years wandering in Barack Obama’s political desert. They have two new conservative Supreme Court justices, and there have been nine self-professed evangelical Cabinet members, plus a flurry of laws and executive orders clamping down on gender roles, abortion and LGBTQ rights. But experts say this may represent the last bounty for a waning political power. Unlike their parents, the younger generation is not animated by the culture wars; many are pushing for social justice for migrants and LGBTQ people and campaigning against mass incarceration—positions more in line with the Democratic Party.

The result is a shrinking conservative bloc, something that could weaken white Christian political power—and, consequently, a Republican Party that has staked its future on its alliance with the religious right. It’s a conundrum that the father of modern GOP conservatism, Barry Goldwater, predicted in 1994: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem.”

[rampartc]

1. no republican could be elected to any office anywhere without them

the culture wars will never end. creationism, after more than a century, is still a signature issue. people on our side die over abortion, they lose no one.

happy holidays!

[Hassler]

2. Hallelujah and amen

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

3. In many Democratic Circles,

...we just refer to them as "Evangelicals". I, along with them, leave the "Christian" part out on purpose. There is nothing Christ-like about what they practice at all.

[dalton99a]

4. Great article.

[Takket]

5. i'll believe that when i see it.............

[Initech]

6. The party of "morals and values" elected the most dishonest, immoral man ever.

And they also helped the most dishonest, immoral SCOTUS justice we've ever had. The sooner they go away the better!