Due to Compromise, Hypocrisy, and Loving Politicians and Politics More Than Jesus Christ and the Gospel, EVANGELICALS Have Lost Their Powerful Perch. Now Secular People and Non-Churchgoers Rule the Republican Party.
Former vice president Mike Pence waits to be introduced during a visit to Florida International University in Miami on Jan. 27. (Scott McIntyre for The Washington Post)
Due to Compromise, Hypocrisy, and Loving Politicians and Politics More Than Jesus Christ and the Gospel, EVANGELICALS Have Lost Their Powerful Perch. Now Secular People and Non-Churchgoers Rule the Republican Party.
Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, Has Said Many Times That the Tragedy of Today is That Pastors and the Church Are Not at the Forefront Against Some of the Greatest Enemies the Church and America Have Ever Seen — WOKEISM and the Abomination of Sodomy/Homosexuality. Governors, Conservative Media Hosts, Secular People, Even People From False Religions, and People Such as Kid Rock Are Leading the Way. There is only One Reason This is the Case: Many So-called Evangelicals, Protestants, and Charismatics have Been Paid Off With Judas’ Thirty Pieces of Silver.
The religious right might be flexing its muscles as it pushes to restrict abortions and ban gender-affirming surgery for minors in many states. But when it comes to strength in the Republican Party these days, the real brawn can be often found elsewhere: among the less religious.
This isn’t to say that Republicans are giving up on faith. Nine in 10 Republicans believe in God, and 87 percent say the Bible is either the literal or “inspired” word of God. But as the country as a whole becomes less religiously active, so, too, is the GOP:
This non-practicing bloc of the party has grown ever-more powerful — silently driving much of the GOP’s agenda and forcing it to adopt a more populist bent.
Non-churchgoers played a central role in pulling the GOP toward Donald Trump and his brand of populism over the past six years. In the early years of the Trump administration, they were the most likely to support his hard line on immigration.
Like Trump, they were skeptical of the GOP’s economic orthodoxy:
This explains why they saw Trump as an ideological ally. On a seven-point scale running from “very liberal” to “very conservative,” the average non-churchgoing Republican placed both themselves and Trump in the “somewhat conservative” camp. Weekly church attendees, by contrast, saw a larger gap between Trump’s ideology and their own.
As Trump’s first term wore on, these non-attendees remade the GOP in their own image. By 2022, weekly churchgoers largely shifted their views on many issues to match those of their less-religiously active peers. For instance, 85 percent said they wanted $25 billion in new border spending, including a wall on the border with Mexico.Republicans almost unanimously approved of Trump’s economic policies — a mix of traditional GOP tax cuts and populist trade deals favoring U.S. manufacturers.
Weekly church attendees pushed Trump right on some issues, such as abortion. But Trump shifted their entire worldview, convincing them that his populism was true conservatism. Soon, they saw a thrice-married adulterer who routinely defied GOP orthodoxy as one of their own.
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