Tim Wildmon
AFA president
April 2019 – I recently commented on Today’s Issues, our daily radio program, that Christians should be thankful that Donald Trump – not Hilary Clinton – was elected president of the United States. The Democratic Party of yesteryear, made of patriotic Americans who simply had policy differences with the Republican Party, is gone forever.
The Democrats have spent the past four decades or so evolving into a party that now works against almost everything our country was built on. The Bible. The Constitution. The family. The free enterprise system.
This is not to say the Republican Party has always defended these institutions. But generally speaking, it has. That is why the vast majority of Christians vote Republican. Before 1980, Christians voted for both Democrats and Republicans.
President Trump, while running in the GOP primary, reached out to the Christian community to better understand who we were and what we wanted to see in a presidential candidate.
Initially I was skeptical of his sincerity. Some would say it was a political move, since he knew he could not win the GOP nomination if he did not have a significant percentage of the evangelical vote. Perhaps it was a calculated move on Trump’s part. So what?
Republicans and Democrats alike routinely pander to groups of all demographics. Of course, today Christians alone are not a large enough voting bloc to elect a presidential candidate by themselves. But Trump wanted to be our friend, and he stood for a lot of the same things we stood for.
Yes, he was a flawed candidate, and he had no real Christian testimony other than speaking fondly of his mother taking him to church when he was young. But still, he was not embarrassed to be seen with or stand with “the evangelicals,” as he called us. (During the campaign, I joked with friends that
Mr. Trump didn’t know enough to understand that we conservative Christians are considered “unclean” by the political elites. A serious presidential candidate would never be seen in public with us.)
In hindsight, it was probably a blessing that
Mr. Trump didn’t get that, and it was a blessing that if he did get it – he didn’t care. He was going with what he believed, and he was going to listen to whoever wanted to join him.
One reason President Trump has been targeted with aggressive unrelenting fire from the liberal elites – since before he was sworn in – is precisely that he is not ashamed of the Bible, the Constitution, the family, and the free enterprise system. Yes, I understand that claim will elicit mockery, maybe something like this: “So the president of American Family Association supports a man who has been married three times and has lived a playboy lifestyle. What a joke.”
I have to say, I did wrestle with these things. However, I did not believe him to be the same man he had been in the past. I thought he was an old school patriot who saw what the progressives and the globalists were doing to our country and wanted to stop it.
But in the end, it was Trump or Clinton who would take over the most powerful office in the free world. Did I want someone who wanted to be our friend or someone who called us deplorable and represented a political party bent on the destruction of our country (as we have known it) and the criminalization of Christianity? There was no
third option.
I have been somewhat hesitant to state things in such dramatic fashion. But I’ve been in this culture war every day since 1986. The political progressives in this country are secular humanists. They have taken over one of the two major political parties in America. They demonstrate open disdain and, in some cases, hatred for the God of the Bible and His people. This is becoming more obvious. The path they are on will lead to the persecution of Christians, perhaps even physical persecution.
Does President Trump always exhibit the fruit of the spirit? No. Does he sometimes post Tweets I wish he hadn’t sent? Yes.
But you know what? The man stands strong against progressive principles and the people who want to destroy our country and ruin our lives unless we bow the knee to Baal. And they are vicious. Ruthless. And they, the God haters, are after President Trump because in many respects – politically speaking – to them, he represents us.
We need to pray for President Trump every day. 
