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Posted on 11/09/2026 1:49:11 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The midterm elections delivered a devastating generational defeat to the Republican Party as Democrats swept races coast to coast last week, regaining both houses of Congress, flipping six governors' offices and seizing hundreds of seats in state legislatures.
Evangelical voter turnout saw a marked decline this year compared to previous elections, leaving some Christians reeling from the overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party, which some discern has grown overtly hostile to biblical Christianity as it cozies up to far-left socialism, LGBT ideology and Islam.
"It is heartbreaking that the Evangelical vote did not show up this year. The sad result is hundreds of pro-abortion, LGBTQ advocates and antisemites just won races all over America," Gary Bauer, president of the Virginia-based conservative advocacy organization American Values, told All Israel News.
"The church is committing political suicide," he added.
Here are some of the top insights from Christian leaders about the potential reasons behind the GOP's electoral wipeout, the spiritual implications of rising left-wing power and how Christians ought to navigate a darkening political culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
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He’s not wrong.
Clergy are no doubt rejoicing. They are twice as liberal as the layiety. On average according to Ryan Burge.
Clergy are no doubt rejoicing. They are twice as liberal as the layiety. On average according to Ryan Burge.
Clergy are no doubt rejoicing. They are twice as liberal as the layiety. On average according to Ryan Burge.
Their fault for putting up corrupt adulterers like Ken Paxton and out of touch fogies like Mike Rogers to front their politics.
God’s full condmenation and judgement on all of man’s sin took place 2000 years ago on the body of Christ.
He’s not imputing America’s sins to them. God wants to reconcile America to himself (2 Cor. 5:18-19).
Whatever else the midtems are, it is not God’s Judgement upon America although many would like to think so.
I think God still has plans for America. Trials and tribulations come for our good (Jn. 16:33). This is most likely what these midterms are all about.
Let the flaming begin...
Ask people why they leave the church and you’ll find a list of very legitimate and solid reasons why. People are tired of hypocrisy, cold heartedness, Pharisee-style judgment, cliquey-ness, and honestly, just lack of joy and love among the people who claim to believe it.
Jesus said “Love” “Pray for your enemies” “Blessed are the peacemakers” “Don’t make money your master” and you would have called him woke. So there you have it.
82% of the Evangelical vote went to the republicans.
60% of the collective Protestant Christian vote went republican.
Completely UNTRUE and UNBIBLICAL. The day of Judgement happens upon Christ’s return. What we go through on a day to day basis is the enemy’s doing and WE are called to stand against the devil, not God. He us the authority and called us to do it. Most people are not understanding what they’re role is as ambassador’s of Jesus.
This. America has turned her back on God. We are now being led into slavery & bondage, just as every time this happened in the Bible. Buckle up. It ain’t getting better. Not for a while, anyhow.
This is what those leaders in the article should be focused on. Cleaning up their own houses FIRST:
Former missionary and pastor at Greg Laurie’s megachurch says he needs financial help to fight pedophilia lawsuit
See post #7.
At some point soon, the world will flock to the gospel Paul preached that has been abandoned but is coming back in these last days - the gospel of the grace of Christ without the law (Rom. 3:21-26).
For individual sinners who come to a saving knowledge of Christ and accept him as Lord and Savior, your statement is true. However, nations do not have a will, unlike an individual. God rebuked the Jewish nation several times in the Old Testament and with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. If He passed judgment on the "apple of his eye", He will pass judgment on any and all nations who violate His commandments. We can start with the 60 million abortions committed since Roe v. Wade, and the increase of killings as states set up abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, as Massachusetts has just done. There are too many examples to enumerate. About 50 years ago, Billy Graham said if God does not punish America for its sins, He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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That is the way I see it. So many have turned their backs on God. We are about to be severely punished my someone. Unfortunately, the righteous will also suffer horribly.
Yes, he's an adulterer. That IS wrong. But, so was King David and he still managed to do what God told him later. Or, I guess, it's better to vote for someone like Talarico. I am about to check out completely. I simply can not stand people any more.
Do you keep his commandments? It only takes one slip up to violate them all (Jas. 2:10). Are you going to hell?
Amen!
Also especially for a state with Texas, I’d imagine a lot of Christians DID vote their conscience and may have come out for Trump two years ago. But they may have voted AGAINST the kind of Republicans that people like Ken Paxton represented.
Corruption and godlessness abounds just as much in the GOP and we can’t act like GOD is “okay” with Republican sins, but just not Democrat sins.
I’m sorry - their fault?
They are early estimates, but right now it is estimated that 21 million evangelicals showed up to vote in the 2026 election - that’s down 52.7% from the 44.4million who were estimated to have voted in the 2020 election.
Let’s take your example of Ken Paxton. Adulterer? Seems to be confessedly so. Corrupt? Arguable. I don’t think so, but I also wouldn’t want to defend him. What’s his position on abortion? The second amendment? DEI? Boys in girls’ locker rooms? How many genders there are?
What are Talarico’s positions on all of those issues?
Was Jesus on the ballot? No? Then everyone on the ballot was a sinner, right? Does that mean someone can’t be corrupt enough to lose my vote? Of course not. But Texans had a choice. Paxton or Talarico. And as the late great Neil Peart, whom I fear isn’t in a better place, said, “if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.” If someone’s choice directly or indirectly helped Talarico into office, given Talarico’s positions, I’d argue that person is giving Paxton a run for his money on moral corruption.
But, tell me, why did Abbott and every other Republican in Texas go down in flames as well? Were they all corrupt adulterers, too?
Well, the fact is, if you have a problem with a Republican candidate, complain all you want, and your chance to send a message via ballot about your displeasure is in the primary. But once the primary is over, it’s over. I pinched my nose and voted for McCain because as lousy as he was, he’d have been better than Obama. And I pinched my nose and voted for Romney because as lousy as he was he’d have been better than Obama. Neither of those assertions are up for debate. Obama was the worst thing that happened to American since Carter.
I hear people around here call Republicans the stupid party all the time. Unless and until Republican voters figure that out, the Republican party isn’t the stupid party - the Republican party is the party with the stupid voters.
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