The painfully obvious reason Christians voted for Trump (that liberals just don’t understand)

Nov. 14, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Since the election of Donald Trump, the level of meltdown on the Left has now reached proportions rivalling Chernobyl. University students at Cornell hosted a cry-in, meeting together to weep at the fall of Hillary Clinton. As per usual, more hate crimes were faked, and every bit of potentially racist graffiti was pounced on as evidence that Trump’s election would result in vicious race wars. Actual violence and rioting done by angry progressives has been almost completely ignored. And then, the one theme that keeps recurring on talks shows across the nation: fear. As the result of Donald Trump’s election, many people, apparently, feel as if the leadership of the country is now fundamentally opposed to them in some way, and they are scared.

Which is exactly how Christians have felt under Barack Obama for the past eight years.

Many of my non-Christian and liberal friends find it bewildering that both evangelicals and Catholics voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, a thrice-married casino operator infamous for his vulgar trash talk. I want to take a moment to explain to them directly why most Christians voted for him anyway. It’s simple, really: Christians voted for Donald Trump because they felt that the threat a de facto third Obama term posed to Christian communities was an existential one.

The attacks on Christians from the highest levels of government have been relentless now for nearly a decade. Obama wants to force Christian churches and schools to accept the most radical and most recent version of gender ideology, and he is willing to issue executive decrees on the issue to force the less enlightened to get in line. Christian concerns are dismissed out of hand as “transphobia.”

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton informed one audience that Christians would have to change their beliefs on some issues. And now Christians are having conversations around the dinner table about what do if the government forces curricula on them that they cannot accept, because their own government is increasingly indicating that Christian parents are too homophobic and too hateful to teach their own children. Can you understand how terrified mothers and fathers are at the prospect that those in power want to actively prevent them from passing their beliefs on to their own children?

I can understand why those from some immigrant communities might be worried about how a Trump presidency could affect them personally—but as for the largely white liberal university students throwing a temper tantrum—what do you have to freak out about? No one is saying that you can’t pass your values on to your children. No one is saying you’re a bigoted, fascistic hater of minorities simply because you happen to have a different belief system. But they are saying that about Christians—and you were, too. And they mean it. The students weeping in fear at a Trump administration have nothing to worry about. No one’s going to cancel their Women’s Studies program or shut down their LBGTQ2etc Collective. Get over it.

And then there was the rapid rise of rainbow fascism. Christian bakers are under attack. Christian photographers. Christian pastors. Real people are losing real businesses that they had labored for years to build. Their way of life is being destroyed. In some cases, Christian business owners saw the wages they needed to feed their families dry up because they were targeted by gay activists and labeled hateful, homophobic bigots simply for declining to assist in celebrating a gay union. That’s all. They just wanted to live their lives in accordance with their own beliefs, and because of that, activists came gunning for them. It wasn’t good enough to go down the street to any number of photographers or bakers who would be more than happy to help celebrate a gay wedding. They needed to see those little family businesses destroyed, even if it meant that the baker and his family ended up on the street. Dissenters must be crushed…

And then there was the fact that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wanted to force Christians to fund the abortion industry, something many of you support because everyone babbles on about “reproductive rights” without ever talking about what abortion actually is. Abortion. Google it. I’m challenging you in all seriousness. That’s how I ended up involved in the pro-life movement: by Googling it…. Take a second, and actually look at pictures of the dead babies, and then remember that Barack Obama even voted against protecting those children who survived abortion, and that Hillary Clinton defended abortion even in the latest stages of pregnancy.

Is it really so hard for you to understand that those who fight tirelessly to protect these babies might be willing to gamble on the support of a brash billionaire rather than cast their vote for someone who thinks the youngest members of the human family are nothing more than soulless trash? I’ve seen an aborted baby before. I’ve held a butchered little boy in my hands. Maybe if you did, too, you could understand why we don’t think Hillary Clinton is a good person. We think her political positions directly result in dead children, because that’s the truth.

This is not even to get into the fact that the Democratic war on religious liberty was so malicious it had them going to court to force nuns—a group called “Little Sisters of the Poor”—to fund birth control. Dissenters must be crushed, after all.

The simple fact is that Christians voted in self-defence. They voted to put the brakes on the relentless, eight-year-long assault not just on their values, but on their ability to live their lives unmolested without having radical progressives attempt to force some newly invented ideology down their throat or hang some new “phobia” label around their necks or garnish their wages to pay for medical exterminators to suction tiny human beings into bloody slurry. Most of these Christians are not activists. Most of them simply want to be left alone. But for eight long years, they weren’t left alone. And so this time around, they voted to give Obama and his progressive minions the hugest shove they could.

Donald Trump may well prove to be destructive force. Time will tell. But for many people, he is currently destroying all the right things. Michael Moore wasn’t wrong to refer to Trump as a “legal Molotov cocktail” that the voters threw right through the front window of the elites. Secular progressives have been using political correctness to strangle the life out of Christians, calling them every name in the book and treating them like seething, hateful gay-bashers. Now, the media saddled a man with every label they could possibly come up with—and he won anyway. Progressives created a system that would convict Christians every single time, replete with ever-shifting speech codes that informed any number of bewildered men and women that the hate they didn’t feel towards anyone was obviously there, anyway. And then a sledgehammer named Donald Trump showed up, and the harried and henpecked voters decided to use it to smash a system created specifically to marginalize and label them.

by Jonathon van Maren 

What you have to understand is that Christians hear the media much differently than the rest of you. They hear themselves being mocked and ridiculed by men like John Oliver, who believes that a man with a penis can simultaneously be a woman. They hear themselves being cursed as awful people by Samantha Bee, who thinks that it’s perfectly okay to stab a baby in the skull in the third trimester of pregnancy. They hear themselves being called hateful bigots by Bill Maher, who claims to value diversity. And they may chuckle painfully, but they also know that they are loathed by those who are now demanding to know how they could possibly have voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, a woman who would have taken her own sledgehammer to religious liberty at the very earliest opportunity.

We’ll have to see how a Trump presidency progresses. With men like Mike Pence around him, he may prove to be an ally to the Christians who cast their ballots for him on Election Day. But even if he isn’t, Christians are simply relieved that he isn’t Hillary Clinton. As I pointed out prior to Election Day, most of us are quite aware that Donald Trump doesn’t care about abortion or religious liberty. But on the other hand, Hillary Clinton is passionate about abortion, and she is passionate about furthering her party’s radical social agenda. Even if Donald Trump does nothing for Christians, at least he’ll leave them alone. After eight years of Barack Obama, that would be a tremendous relief.

That’s why so many Christians voted for Donald J. Trump. 

see more at https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-painfully-simple-reason-christians-voted-for-donald-trump-that-liberals

Late night show

• The Late Late Show With James Corden
• California overwhelmingly went Democrat. So what this means is that these Clinton supporters stopped the cars of people who almost definitely voted for Hillary Clinton. Wasn’t their day bad enough?

Red shows who voted for Trump.

Billionaire Globalist Soros Exposed as Hidden Hand Behind Trump Protests

by Jay Syrmopoulos

Washington, D.C. – Billionaire globalist financier George Soros’ MoveOn.org has been revealed to be a driving force behind the organizing of nationwide protests against the election of Donald Trump — exposing the protests to largely be an organized, top-down operation — and not an organic movement of concerned Americans taking to the streets as reported by the mainstream media.

Wednesday saw protests in the streets of at least 10 major U.S. cities. Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., St. Paul, Minn., Seattle, and several other cities saw protests, according to USA Today.

In light of the protests and rioting that have transpired since the election of Trump, a closer analysis of the dynamic at play is warranted to gauge whether it’s an organic grassroots movement, or something much more organized, sophisticated and potentially dangerous.

Soros’ affiliated organization MoveOn.org released the following press release yesterday afternoon:

Americans to Come Together in Hundreds Peaceful Gatherings of Solidarity, Resistance, and Resolve Following Election Results

Hundreds of Americans, dozens of organizations to gather peacefully outside the White House and in cities and towns nationwide to take a continued stand against misogyny, racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.

Tonight, thousands of Americans will come together at hundreds of peaceful gatherings in cities and towns across the nation, including outside the White House, following the results of Tuesday’s presidential election.

The gatherings – organized by MoveOn.org and allies – will affirm a continued rejection of Donald Trump’s bigotry, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and misogyny and demonstrate our resolve to fight together for the America we still believe is possible.

Within two hours of the call-to-action, MoveOn members had created more than 200 gatherings nationwide, with the number continuing to grow on Wednesday afternoon.

Now come reports from various protest locations that reveal a substantially coordinated effort, and not the organic grassroots showing by concerned Americans, as the mainstream media is reporting. Photos from Austin, Texas reveal a line of busses the “protestors” arrived in, making their appearance seem substantially less than organic – with a direct implication of being strategically orchestrated.

Note that the group is actively organizing protests to a democratic election that no one is contesting the legitimacy of in terms of whether the vote was rigged, etc. Essentially, they are displeased with the results and are calling for people to rise up and not accept the results. For an organization that feigns to promote democracy, their actions speak otherwise.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/soros-trump-protests-revolution/#FE8AOToE5p5GoHwz.99

That’s not a protest; it’s a tantrum

TheBlaze host Tomi Lahren took a moment Thursday to ensure that the angry demonstrations around the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive and unexpected win are defined correctly going forward.

“Half of the country is angry right now,” she said “I get it. But before we start calling the reaction a protest, let’s get something straight. A protest is a peaceful objection to a grievance. A bunch of sore losers occupying a space is called a tantrum. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing around the nation after Trump’s historic and earned victory.”

She also noted that conservatives did not protest after President Obama won in 2008 and 2012, something she said was largely because conservatives were at work instead. Ouch.

see more at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/10/tomi-thats-not-a-protest-its-a-tantrum/

Bloodbath: Trump and the GOP leave Democrats searching for answers

by Leon Wolf 

Entering Election Day, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats had every reason to believe that they would buck the modern trend and have a wildly successful night. In the modern era, any political party that has held the White House for two consecutive terms has struggled to hold it for a third, but Democrats were bullish — the polls were in their favor, the demographic shifts were in their favor, and the GOP had nominated the wildly unpopular Donald Trump to oppose the first female major-party presidential nominee in U.S. history. It seemed like the time was ripe to deliver a death blow to the Republican Party.

One day later, all those dreams have fallen by the wayside as a series of excruciatingly close elections all seemed to fall the GOP’s direction. The party did not win many blowouts last night, but almost every closely contested race in the country managed to go the Republicans’ way, including the most stunning result of all: an Electoral College win for Trump on a night when Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appears to have won the popular vote by possibly a full percentage point, once all the votes from California are counted.

Democrats also hoped to pick off as many as six or seven GOP Senate seats, but once again it appears that every close race — with the exception of the election to replace outgoing Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — went to the Republicans. And they might end up losing only the seat belonging to incumbent Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — although incumbent Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) remains locked in a too-close-to-call battle with Democratic challenger Gov. Maggie Hassan. Ayotte was clinging to a narrow lead in the early morning hours Wednesday. It also appears, stunningly, that Republicans may have held serve or better in the House, where Democrats were hoping to pick up between 10 and 20 seats.

Democrats were so confident of victory — at least in the presidential race — that they appear to have engaged in absolutely no contingency planning for a Trump victory. Texas Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey brashly stated last week that a Trump victory was “never talked about in much depth or detail” among Democrats: “[T]he guy is such a joke. We can’t fathom it and therefore are not planning for it.” Team Clinton is already producing spin suggesting that they saw this defeat coming, but even if that is true, most Democrats are waking up this morning to a sobering reality: Their party has a major problem connecting with American voters. Worse, the problem is so acute that they lost to a candidate who seemed, in so many ways, to be a poor caricature of the worst qualities of their partisan opposition.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way for the Democrats. Trump’s incendiary rhetoric toward Hispanics was supposed to present an insurmountable demographic firewall that would send the GOP marching off the cliff into oblivion. There simply was not supposed to be enough white voters who were susceptible to Trump’s message to overcome these demographic shifts, particularly given Trump’s struggles with well-educated whites. But  he worked his strategy to perfection: As predicted, he lost places like Chester County, Pennsylvania, but he ran up the score in the rural “T” area of the Keystone State, far outperforming Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss. Trump made a political calculation that, in the short term, it would be easier to increase his share of the white vote by a few percentage points than it would to increase his share of the Hispanic vote by 20 percent, and he rode that calculation to victory.

As a stunned Democratic Party begins the process of regrouping, the danger they face is that much of the data emerging from Election Day might convince them that no serious soul-searching is needed. Democrats may well conclude that their planned path to eternal political dominance remains unchanged; that Trump rode a wave of voter blocs that are shrinking demographically (evangelicals, whites, older voters) to a last-gasp, razor-thin margin. They might reason to themselves that doing the same things (only louder and shriller) will right the ship in 2018 and beyond.

Democrats would do well instead to confront an appalling reality: According to every set of exit polls, a majority of Americans who voted yesterday do not believe Trump has the right temperament, experience or judgment to be president, and he won anyway. The problem is not limited to dislike of Hillary Clinton, as the results in numerous Senate and House races from swing states demonstrated. The problem is that the American public does not appear to take the Democrats seriously as a party that can fix their problems. Democrats might well consider how defending a failing Obamacare system that has sent health care costs through the roof and spending much of the year confronting the critical issue of transgender bathrooms may have played into that perception.

For now, however, Democrats appear to have not even properly wrapped their minds around what happened Tuesday, as evidenced by the bizarre scene at Clinton headquarters, where Clinton herself refused to address her supporters, opting instead to send campaign chair John Podesta — who has been the focus of many WikiLeaks stories — on stage to defiantly promise that they would fight “until every vote was counted,” only to call Trump and concede mere minutes later. Many speculated that this bizarre dance occurred because Clinton literally did not have a concession speech prepared and had no idea what to say.

In that sense, Clinton’s campaign is a microcosm of the Democratic Party today — bewildered, bloody and without a clue which direction to take.

see more at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/09/bloodbath-trump-and-the-gop-leave-democrats-searching-for-answers/

professional protesters

by Sara Gonzales 

President-elect Donald Trump has been notably restrained since his general election victory, not making his presence known on social media with his usual signature lines and mostly dealing in platitudes.

But late Thursday, Trump couldn’t contain his feelings about the protesters who have taken to the streets objecting Trump’s presidency. He took to Twitter to vent about the situation.

Donald J. Trump 

✔@realDonaldTrump

Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!

7:19 PM - 10 Nov 2016

Trump has been criticized in the past for allegedly priming his supporters for civil unrest by purporting that the system was “rigged.”

Why do Protesters destroy property

by Melanie Eversley , Aamer Madhani and Rick Jervis , USA TODAY

For the third night in a row, anti-Donald Trump demonstrators took to the streets in several big cities and on college campuses across the United States, including an outburst of smashed windows and a dumpster fire in Portland that police countered with pepper spray and flash-bang devices.

About 4,000 protesters assembled downtown late Thursday chanting “we reject the president-elect!” the Associated Press reported. Some among the crowd vandalized 19 cars at a dealership in Northeast Portland, according to a sales manager, Oregonlive.com reports. Protesters then headed west, over the Broadway Bridge and into the Pearl District, where the windows of several businesses were smashed.

The protest was mostly peaceful until demonstrators met with an anarchist group, after which demonstrators vandalized buildings, kicked cars and knocked out power, KGW-TV reported.

On Twitter, Portland police said many protesters were "trying to get anarchist groups to stop destroying property" and that "anarchists" were refusing to do so. Demonstrators repeatedly chanted "peaceful protest."

Officers ordered protesters to disperse after the demonstration turned into what they called a riot, citing "extensive criminal and dangerous behavior." At least 26 people were arrested.

Police said the crowd, which included many people armed with bats, threw projectiles at officers, who responded by pushing back against the crowd, then making arrests and using flash-bang devices, pepper spray, rubber projectiles and types of smoke or tear gas to force people to disperse.

At about 6:15 a.m. ET Friday, the president-elect tweeted: "Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud! "

It was a change of tone for Trump, who weighed in on the protests Thursday evening, complaining that he took part in a "very open and successful presidential election" but now "professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!"

Meanwhile, demonstrations also took place in Columbus, Ohio, and Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday evening. Protests in Madison, Wisconsin's capital, and Milwaukee, the state's most populous city, drew some of the biggest crowds, with more than 1,000 demonstrators taking to streets in both cities.

Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump surrogate, described the thousands of anti-Trump protesters that have taken to the street as “a bunch of spoiled cry-babies."

"Calm down, things are not as bad as you think," Giuliani said of the protesters in a Fox & Friends interview Thursday.

see video at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protesters-pepper-sprayed-demonstrations-erupt-across-us/93633154/

Unify

Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’ “The Late Show,” is not typically known for being a figure that is friendly to the right. During his long stint on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, his entire schtick was pretending to be the stereotypical depiction of a Republican. While oftentimes humorous, for anyone typically voting GOP, his show would often leave a bad taste in your mouth.

But during his show Tuesday night, Colbert seemed just as shocked as the rest of us when it was more or less certain that Republican Donald Trump was going to win the presidency. Colbert, however, didn’t spit venom, nor did he resort to breaking down the Republican Party and those who voted for them with biting comedy.

Instead, the host began to turn down the humor and spoke to the crowd, not as a partisan political pundit, but as a regular American. He began to discuss how everyone may be tempted to get angry and lash out.

“How did our politics get so poisonous?” asked Colbert thoughtfully to a silent crowd. “I think it’s because we overdosed. Especially this year. We drank too much of the poison. You take a little bit of it so you can hate the other side, and it tastes kind of good, and you like how it feels, and there’s a gentle high to the condemnation.”

Colbert went on to list for the audience humorous examples of things we can all agree on, before wrapping up with a funny, but unifying message.

“Now please. Get out there. Kiss a Democrat. Go hug a Republican. Give a Libertarian a reach around,” said Colbert. “I don’t care. The election is over. You survived. Goodnight, and may God bless America.”

see more at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/09/stephen-colberts-post-election-message-was-touchingly-unifying/

God Qualifies the Chosen

Ken Buck, U.S. Congressman, 4th CD from CO, spoke at our church about God’s healing his cancer when it was considered incurable.  He talked about how each of us is called upon to do our part in God’s plan.  One of the things he said resonated with me and most of the audience.  He said “God does not select the qualified, he qualifies the chosen.”  His “chosen" do not always exhibit qualities of leadership or character, but He gives them the help and guidance they need.

Moses was reluctant when God called on him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.  He had a speech impediment and felt he would not be able to convince his people to leave Egypt for an unknown country.  God gave him the leadership talents and guidance that he needed.  There was  David, who slew a giant with only two stones and a slingshot, and became king of Israel.  David was not always a good man; he had a man killed so he could have his wife; but he repented.  With God’s help, David became a wise king.  The apostle Peter was not the sharpest knife in the drawer; he betrayed Jesus three times.   But God called on him to build his church; and build it he did.  WInston Churchill was Prime Minister of England during World War II.  He warned England about Hitler.  The aristocracy made fun of him; he had a drinking problem; the elite thought he was a buffoon.  He was not an example of Christian piety, but he led England through one of the worst wars a country ever faced.

Perhaps there is a deeper reason Trump is capturing the conservative vote; maybe he is the one who will lead us out of the mess our country is in now.  Help from the Lord sometimes come in unlikely forms.  I hope this is one of those times.  We should continue to pray for our country and its leadership.