It should come as no surprise that those who despise Donald Trump are pessimistic about their chances of keeping him out of office if he is a candidate in a fair presidential election. Indeed, because the Never Trumpers did such a stunning job of helping keep Trump out of office in 2020, every single decent voter in America who has paid attention since Biden’s inauguration wants to remove him (and those who have been controlling him) from the White House. And so if Trump is not dead or in prison on election day, the Never Trumpers will be forced to do everything in their power to limit the number of decent voters in America who have their votes counted.
To arm ourselves against the manipulative tactics that are currently being deployed against Christians — to support Biden’s quest for his second term — we should consider the following fallacies.
Voting Trump Is Anti-Life. As Michael Matt explained in his recent Remnant Underground, it is obvious that Trump is far more pro-life than Biden. It should therefore be abundantly clear that there will be many more abortions if Biden wins than if Trump wins. Given this fact, all thinking voters should be able to answer a basic question: if you want to have a smaller number of abortions over the next four years, should you vote for Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump? With the information we all have, every single reasonable person should be able to conclusively say that voting for Trump is the only action one can take in the upcoming presidential election to try to reduce the number of abortions.
Biden and Trump Are Both Awful, There is No Difference. In every single metric that Christians should care about — including pro-life issues, family life, morality, national security, and freedom from medical tyranny — we know that Biden is tremendously worse than Trump. So, absent circumstances beyond our control that would disrupt an election between Biden and Trump, we have to choose: do we want (a) a country and world that is far from perfect, but likely more favorable to Christians, with Trump; or do we want (b) unmitigated hell on earth with Biden. Most decent and rational people would want to avoid unmitigated hell on earth, even if the next best option was far from perfect.
They Will Steal the Election Anyway. Many people believe that there is no way that Biden’s handlers and the globalists will allow Trump to win the election. While this might be the case, we can see that Trump’s enemies are obviously trying to do everything they can to undermine him. Presumably they would not need to do it if they were absolutely certain that they did not have to worry about him winning an election. But even if Biden’s handlers and the globalists plan to steal the election, we are almost certainly better off making it more difficult for them to do so by striving to have the largest possible voter turnout for Trump. All else being equal, the harder they have to work to steal an election, the more likely it is for their crimes to be exposed and counteracted.
Sitting Out the Election Is a Virtuous Option. There are some instances in our lives in which remaining silent, or abstaining from a particular decision, could be virtuous. This 2024 presidential election does not appear to be one of those instances based on the realities discussed above. When, as is the case now, the failure of decent people to stand up against evil will foreseeably lead to catastrophically wicked results, it seems that we do not actually have a morally permissible basis for neglecting to take reasonable steps to oppose that evil. In this case, therefore, how can we honestly argue that failing to vote for the candidate with the best chance to overcome the worst possible outcome is a virtuous option?
Voting Trump Sets Back the Republican Party. Some have tried to argue that voting for Trump will mean that the Republican Party will be somehow damaged. This would be more persuasive were it not for the evident fact that the Republican Party is essentially lost as it is. More importantly, though, the Republican Party would presumably have to slouch even further toward woke culture if Trump loses because four more years of Biden (or his replacement) — with open persecution of those who oppose the woke agenda — would render Christian positions far more dangerous to profess in public and, therefore, politically untenable.
Voting Trump Is Anti-Christian. According to one of the commenters to Mr. Matt’s recent Remnant Underground, we may be barred from Heaven if we vote for Trump: “Will you lose your soul for the sake of this country, which will not last anyway? Never compromise in the face of evil.” The apparent reasoning behind this sentiment is that Trump is in favor of laws that violate God’s laws — abortion in some instances, LGTBQ rights, and the availability of IVF — so we will be promoting these evil laws if we vote for Trump. But, as Mr. Matt argued, why not take this to its logical conclusion and declare that Christians cannot vote for any presidential candidate who does not endorse a complete ban on pornography, which plays a key role in so many grave evils in society? Can we vote for any candidate who does not vow to abolish unnecessary business on Sunday? In other words, once we limit ourselves to candidates who campaign for the eradication of all evil laws, we will find that we have made it virtually certain that the most anti-Christian laws will eventually prevail.
It cannot possibly be the case that God will judge us based on voting for the only viable candidate who shows himself to be capable of protecting Americans against the demonic globalist onslaught. And if Trump is truly plotting to betray us, why is he vehemently opposed by essentially all of the worst villains in the world?
Trump Is Going to Betray Us. Some argue that Trump is so untrustworthy that he will betray us at the first opportunity. In all honesty, this is a possibility with any candidate, and generally even more so with those who, like Trump, lack a moral compass based on solid Christian belief. However, it cannot possibly be the case that God will judge us based on voting for the only viable candidate who shows himself to be capable of protecting Americans against the demonic globalist onslaught. And if Trump is truly plotting to betray us, why is he vehemently opposed by essentially all of the worst villains in the world?
Trump Is to Blame for the Covid Vaccines. Many people who rightly despise everything connected with the Covid vaccines (or “experimental gene therapy”) understandably assign some blame to Trump, who still touts his role in fast-tracking the development process. He delivered world-class execution on the business and operations aspects of cutting through red-tape with the aim of helping stop the pandemic; but, like most of the world, he tragically trusted the experts to do their part by not acting with extraordinary negligence or malice. By the time we learned that the experts were indeed maliciously lying to us (like they had to Trump), Biden was in the White House persecuting those who remained unvaccinated, which we know Trump would not have done. Should Trump offer a mea culpa at some point? Probably, but it would be something along the lines that it took him too long to realize that the medical experts were just as deceitful as the other deep state experts whom Biden and his handlers enable, rely upon, and serve.
Stepping back, we must ask ourselves why we now have some very vocal Catholics trying to convince us that we cannot vote Biden out of office because, they argue, Trump does not support pro-Catholic initiatives (that could never, ever be enacted). As Mr. Matt suggested in his Remnant Underground, it seems that the Never Trumpers might be playing Catholics to swing the election for Biden, the most anti-Catholic president in the history of our nation. Not everyone who espouses the fallacies above is a pro-Biden, anti-Catholic operative, but it is dangerously naive to think that Never Trumpers are not manipulating Catholics to oppose Trump.
A 2016 article from the Society of St. Pius X on “Catholic Principles on Voting” cites Pope Pius XII’s words from March 10, 1948:
“In the present circumstances, it is a strict obligation for all those who have the right to vote, men and women, to take part in the elections. Whoever abstains from doing so, in particular by indolence or weakness, commits a sin grave in itself, a mortal fault. Each one must follow the dictate of his own conscience. However, it is obvious that the voice of conscience imposes on every Catholic to give his vote to the candidates who offer truly sufficient guarantees for the protection of the rights of God and of souls, for the true good of individuals, families and of society, according to the love of God and Catholic moral teaching.”
Only one candidate for president in 2024 affords us any semblance of these “guarantees for the protection of the rights of God and of souls, for the true good of individuals, families and of society, according to the love of God and Catholic moral teaching.” The protections Trump does not guarantee happen to be protections that could never, ever be available in the current political environment. As such, those who are promoting the fallacies above need to consider that they may be committing grave sins, and encouraging others to do the same.
Ultimately, the situation is likely so bad that we must do all we can to petition God’s intervention. But that reality does not grant us permission to make decisions that will almost certainly increase the amount of anti-Christian evil in our nation. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
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