Trump and Evangelicals

By now, I am sure, you have heard of the editorial from Christianity Today. This is a major turning point in the Trump era. While Evangelicals do not have the power they did in 1973, they are still a very important group. You can discern this from what the president said in his tweet in the morning. He tried very hard to diminish what happened.

No, we will not see older evangelicals voting for Satan (err, Democrats.) That will hardly happen. However, they may just sit it out. And the numbers of Evangelicals are high enough that they sitting it out may very well change the dynamics of the 2020 election. Yes, this is one-way impeachment politics may play out.

This is what President Donald Trump wrote on his Twitter page:

A far left magazine, or very “progressive,” as some would call it, which has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years, Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather………have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President. No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!

Let’s be clear about this. The magazine is neither failing or far left. In fact, when Richard Nixon lost Billy Graham, it was one of the nails in that coffin. Billy is no longer alive and his son Franklin was quick to point out that his…