White Evangelicals Largely Approve Of How Trump Is Handling The Coronavirus

[Goonch]

Despite the president’s lies and initial skepticism about the crisis, most white evangelical Christians strongly approve of what he’s done.

Even when faced with plague and pestilence, white evangelicals are placing their hopes in President Donald Trump.

About 7 in 10 white evangelical Christians approve of the way Trump is handling issues related to the coronavirus outbreak, including 52% who strongly approve of his performance, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted over the weekend.

In contrast, only 45% of all American adults surveyed said they strongly or somewhat approve of how Trump is handling the outbreak.

Seventy percent of white evangelicals also approve of the way the U.S. government is managing the outbreak. Only 47% of all respondents surveyed said the same.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-evangelicals-trump-coronavirus_n_5e7238f9c5b6f5b7c53c6701

[jberryhill]

1. Of course they do

[Demovictory9]

11. yes, why is this a surprise anymore. Trump is their guy. He enacted racist, sexist, homophobic,

ant-immigrant, anti-environmental policies that they secretly coveted. it will have to get pretty pretty bad for them to break away

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The christofascists theocrats see plagues as punishment from God and they dig that.

If enough people die, the rest of us might come over to their way of thinking.

[VMA131Marine]

3. Let's see how his numbers look in a couple of weeks

If Italy is a guide, we’re not close to the worst of this and it did not have to be that way.

Also, the evangelicals are the least likely to believe or understand the science of what’s going on.

[Mariana]

5. It won't sway the white Evangelicals one little bit

no matter how bad it gets. Understand that they truly believe God put Trump in office to implement His will. Therefore, as far as they are concerned, opposing Trump is exactly the same as opposing God. They will not do it.

[durablend]

7. They'll just say

"The sinners are being punished" or something like that

[Mariana]

4. They're not about to criticize God's own hand-picked president. nt.

[Midnight Writer]

6. It's the 45% of general population approving that freaks me out.

I expect evangelicals to be irrational.

They think that killing the Son of God was a good thing that saved us all? And they worship the Cross he was nailed to?

[mountain grammy]

12. Agree!

[edbermac]

8. Did they approve of the Orange Messiah fucking a porn star?

[Snake Plissken]

9. Racists dressed in Christian costumes

Because racism is tax exempt if you call it a religion.

[jberryhill]

13. I don't know why "costumes" are necessary

When are people going to understand that the basic premise of Christianity is that some folks are going to have a great afterlife and some folks aren’t. You are either in the club or you’re not.

And if you find yourself unable to believe it (because people do not choose what strikes them as believable or not) you are not in the club.

It is entirely about “us” versus “them”.

This notion that the central message of Christianity is some fluffy notion of “be nice” is just silly. Nobody needs an entire theological system around “be nice”.

[dustyscamp]

10. They are marked

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[winstars]

14. Of course they do, RAPTURE IS COMING SOON!!! Fucking fucks!!

[Permanut]

15. Nice to have a stable genius in charge..

You know, the one who said:

January 22: "..we have it under control."

February 27: "It's going to disappear."

February 28: (referring to Democrats) "It's their new hoax."

March 7: "I'm not concerned at all".