Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean argued Tuesday on MSNBC's “The Beat” that Christians who voted for former President Donald Trump “abandoned any pretense of being ethical.”
Dean said, “Trump is the furthest thing from an evangelical Christian. In fact, he is the furthest from a Christian in terms of his own professed values. How he treats women. How he treats other people. His willingness to say whatever he wants, whether it's true or not. So these are not what most Christians would call Christian values. Therefore , in many ways, the danger here is that evangelical Christians are abandoning any pretense of being ethical. This is because it is a means to realize their vision of what they want to impose on the region.
He continued: Iowa is not a typical state, but it is influential because it is the first state, and it reflects how well the state organizes itself.
Dean added, “I don't know what happened to Iowa. I'm in shock. I've always been in a swing state, but not now. So there's some bitterness, some anger, and maybe… Evangelicalism may have been more advanced, but something happened in Iowa.”
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