Nearly half of Republicans think God wanted Trump to be president

[DemocratSinceBirth]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders kicked up a bit of dust recently when she told the Christian television network CBN that she believed that God wanted Donald Trump to be president.

“I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times,” she said, “and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president and that’s why he’s there. And I think he has done a tremendous job in supporting a lot of the things that people of faith really care about.”

It’s an argument that certainly much of the country would seemingly disagree with, given that Trump’s job approval numbers remain low and that he lost the popular vote in 2016. But Sanders was probably expressing a view with which many, if not most, of those watching CBN agreed.

We can say that because Fox News included a question echoing Sanders’s sentiment in its most recent poll. (To be clear, this is not a poll conducted among Fox New viewers but a standard, live-caller political poll.) The pollsters asked Americans if they believed that God wanted Trump to be president. Most said they didn’t — but a quarter of the country agreed with Sanders.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/14/nearly-half-republicans-think-god-wanted-trump-be-president/?utm_term=.dda18084076a

[DBoon]

1. You cannot have a functioning democracy...

.. when a significant part of the electorate believes their imaginary sky god will send them to an eternity of torment for voting for the opposition party.

[RKP5637]

3. For a good portion of the United States, US is United Stupidity. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. hmmmm, I wonder just where that god is ... in their books of fantasies? FFS, it's the 21st

century. Brainwashed people working on others, and some politicians soaking up the benefits. It's all politics, not gods running around.

[MineralMan]

4. Donald Trump is clear evidence that there is no deity looking down

and being concerned about the well-being of humans. If any sort of supernatural entity existed to create the Universe, it long ago abandoned the experiment as an utter failure. That seems unlikely, so I conclude that no such entities exist at all, and we're on our own.

Now, let's Dump Trump and the Republican Party in 2020!

[ariadne0614]

5. If "god" wanted tRump to be president,. . .

. .then “his” reason must have been to force Americans to face our racism, misogyny and hypocrisy at long last. The tRumplicans are like the dog that catches the car. They will have Hell to pay. The rest of us are ready, willing and able to evolve and move on.

[DFW]

6. In that case, nealy half of Republicans are...........

Very, very, very, VERY stupid people.

Wait, we already knew that.

[hedda_foil]

7. Only if God changed his name to P U T I N.

...And ye shall call Me VLAD!

[Wounded Bear]

8. Which is about 15-20% of the population...

and counting down.

[stopbush]

9. What's sad is that anyone still believes in god in this day and age.

Our species really needs to move on.

[Panich52]

10. Reminds me of something Rev William Barber said

on Morning Joe today: We must challenge the "false moral narrative of religious nativism"

[bdamomma]

11. you may find this part of transcript interesting.

how can people be so stupid. Nevermind.

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: I did not appreciate, until I worked on the book, that while Donald holds himself out as a devout Christian—”No one reads the Bible more than me”—while he has all these pastors embracing him as a good Christian man, Donald aggressively, thoroughly and at great length, in many forums, denounces Christianity. His personal motto is “always get revenge,” whereas the message of Jesus Christ was “turn the other cheek.” And these ministers, some of whom I’ve written to and haven’t—they haven’t responded at all—continue to embrace him. And I find it very troubling. Donald has beguiled them with flattery. If they continue, now that my book is out, if they know about it, to do this, they are then deceiving their flocks, and that’s evil. But Donald himself doesn’t care about these things. He will tell you any lie. He can’t quote a single line from the Bible. Not one. And yet he says, “No one reads the Bible more than Donald Trump.” If you ask him, “Well, what do you like in the Bible?” “Oh, there’s so many. There’s so many. I just—there are so many, I can’t choose.”


https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/5/the_making_of_donald_trump_david

[spanone]

12. Nearly half of republicans are brain damaged.