What do evangelicals want from Trump 2.0?
FRC’s Tony Perkins praised Musk and Ramaswamy’s plan in a post on X that suggested these cuts: “Defund Planned Parenthood. Defund international orgs at odds with our interests. Defund PBS/NPR. Mass rescissions of unconstitutional regulations that exceed the authority of the executive branch. Return the federal workforce to the office five days a week, which would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.” Original article at https://baptistnews.com/article/pro-family-groups-believe-trump-2-0-will-advance-their-agenda/
“Pro-family” activists worked hard to elect Donald Trump and other GOP candidates this fall. The nonprofit Family Policy Alliance, which partners with Focus on the Family, says it mobilized voters through 12 million emails in swing states and brought 850,000 new Christian voters to the polls.
“It was Christian voters who were the decisive factor in Trump’s win,” said evangelical pollster George Barna.
Now, those who labored to put Trump back in power are working to advance their social agenda.
James Dobson, who founded Focus on the Family, said he was “euphoric” and “very elated” over Trump’s win, and his ministry, the James Dobson Family Institute, “has high hopes that 2025 will see God restored to the center of our public life” and that Trump can bring about “the reformation of America’s government.”
“What happened here is not just that our side won and the other side lost,” Dobson said in a post-election broadcast. “What’s happening here is an absolute flipping of the culture in a way that has not happened before.”
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said Trump’s governing trifecta — Republican control of the White House and both houses of Congress — should help in “making America strong and morally whole,” “making the world safe again” and “rooting out” deep state control of the State Department, the Department of Justice and the military.
