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A Baptist media publisher and pastor has urged his flock to admit that President Donald Trump is an \u201cabuser,\u201d deeming MAGA an \u201cabusive movement that preys on the most racist and misogynistic tropes possible.\u201d In an op-ed published Thursday<\/u>, he urged his fellow Baptists to \u201cadmit the urgency of the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is according to Texas-based Baptist News Global executive director Mark Wingfield. Baptists are a denomination of Evangelical Christians, who were among Trump\u2019s most loyal voters in 2016, 2020, and 2024. While reliable numbers on Baptist voters specifically are hard to come by, exit polls have shown that around 80 percent of Evangelicals<\/u> voted Trump. Wingfield\u2019s op-ed, however, comes amidst a dramatic shift among Evangelicals, whose support for Trump has plunged to 52 percent<\/u> \u2014 a 30 percent drop in one year.<\/p>\n

According to Wingfield, \u201cA common criticism I get here at BNG and that some of my progressive clergy friends get in their congregations is this: \u2018Why do you have to keep talking about Donald Trump and Christian nationalism all the time? Could you please change the subject?\u2019 This question fails to grasp the urgency of our current crisis. It is like saying to a woman who is being abused at home, \u2018Why do you have to talk about your abusive husband all the time? Can\u2019t you talk about something more pleasant?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wingfield lays out his thoughts on the president in no uncertain terms, writing, \u201cDonald Trump is an abuser. He is an adjudicated rapist and predator. Donald Trump is a grifter. He is a well-known con man who gets away with the con because so many don\u2019t want to talk about it. Donald Trump is a liar unlike any liar most of us ever have known. And there are enormous consequences to his perpetual lying. Donald Trump is literally the most dangerous man in the world, and you want to label me with \u2018Trump Derangement Syndrome\u2019 for saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s more, he asserted, \u201cMAGA is an abusive movement that preys on the most racist and misogynistic tropes possible and does real harm to people. Real people are dying and starving and becoming ill because of the cruelty and stupidity of the Trump administration. Lives are being ruined. Families are being ruined.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation\u2019s house is on fire, and those of us who keep yelling \u2018Fire!\u2019 are told to please talk about something more pleasant,\u201d he warns. \u201cWhile the fire rages. Most of us would love to talk about more pleasant things but our consciences will not allow us that privilege. We must continue to sound the alarm while the threat remains.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concludes by spurring his fellow Baptists to action, urging, \u201cIf you want us to be quiet, step up and do something to put out the fire. Admit the urgency of the crisis. Identify with those being harmed. Use your position and privilege to call for change and hold accountable those who are enabling this insanity. If you want us to shut up, then you must put up. Otherwise, we are not the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

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