Wise words to Evangelicals who won't vote for Trump
Wayne Grudem has been a theologian for nearly forty years. He has just posted a piece at Townhall, titled "Why Voting for Trump Is the Morally Good Choice". Voting for him is not the "lesser of two evils" because he's not evil. He's not perfect; he's flawed, but then so is Hillary.
He writes:
I do not think that voting for Donald Trump is a morally evil choice because there is nothing morally wrong with voting for a flawed candidate if you think he will do more good for the nation than his opponent. In fact, it is the morally right thing to do.
I did not support Trump in the primary season. I even spoke against him at a pastors’ conference in February. But now I plan to vote for him. I do not think it is right to call him an “evil candidate.” I think rather he is a good candidate with flaws.
People could quarrel with the assessment "he is a good candidate with flaws." However, the post is very long, but worth the read because Grudem covers many issues like abortion and taxes and shows why Trump would be better than Hillary. This is the essence:
I am writing this article because I doubt that many “I can’t vote for Trump” Christians have understood what an entirely different nation would result from Hillary Clinton as president, or have analyzed in detail how different a Trump presidency would be. In what follows, I will compare the results we could expect from a Clinton presidency with what we could expect from a Trump presidency.
I concede that I was going to leave the presidential section of my ballot blank, though I was going to vote down ticket. I have the luxury of withholding my presidential vote because it was going to get lost in the California Electoral College that will vote for Hillary.
But Professor Grudem has made me reconsider my decision. Maybe I will vote for a man like Trump. Trump may be a "strong man" who doesn't understand limited government, but as Grudem argues, if he really follows through in cutting tax rates and trimming the reach and scope of the government bureaucracy, then his "strong man" persona is really just his personality. And when Trump insists on nutty policies like a trade war through tariffs and other such tomfoolery, then I add that the GOP "Establishment" can pull him back from the brink.
James Arlandson's website is Live as Free People, where he has posted Why Trump Might Win It All and the GOP 'Establishment' Will Have to Save Trump and Country.
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