A Few Thoughts About The Election Cycle

Less than a week ago, the United States elected Donald Trump as its 45th President. This was a huge shock given that Hillary had ‘won’ every debate and comfortably led in the majority of the polls. No one saw this coming – as a matter of fact, you could have wagered on Donald Trump to win the morning of the election at more than 5 to 1 odds. The likeliest outcome was that Hillary would win by a landslide, and that the Trump presidential bid was a joke at best and some sort of ‘Manchurian Candidate’ conspiracy at worst.

Needless to say, America adjusting to the idea of Donald being “President Trump” is going to take quite a while in light of the previous paragraph. In my previous blog from several months ago, I wrote how this election cycle gives us a great opportunity, as followers of Jesus, to ‘reframe the conversation’ and talk about sin, ‘functional saviors’, and other larger topics (a functional savior is anything that one would believe in as a savior – whether it be his money, his political party, his economic system, or something else).

And I think we need to continue to do this. Because Donald Trump is no more of a savior (or lack of one) than Hillary Clinton or Gary Johnson. Donald Trump is a man with a sin nature just like the other two. He may move forward the more conservative agenda or he may not, but this irrelevant to the topic at hand. President-Elect Trump is a fallen person, and conservatives need to be wary of looking to him as a functional savior, just like more liberal leaning people should have been careful not to ascribe functional savior type attributes on his predecessor, President Obama.

May Jesus’s agenda and kingdom be established and extended no matter who is currently living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C.