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Why Do Democrats Hate Christians?

Posted on | January 30, 2026 | No Comments

Jennifer Welch (left) and her co-host Angie Sullivan

This post is not going to be one of those “look-what-the-crazy-liberal-said” exercises, as enough such work has already been done on podcaster Jennifer Welch’s most recent outburst. Sure, I’ll quote what Welch said, but my point here is to explain why she said it. First, however, the quote supplied by The Post Millennial:

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has said that “white Evangelical Christianity” is a cancer. While making the comments, she named people such as Erika Kirk and cited the Christian’s tendency to vote for Trump as a reason to oppose them and claimed Christians are not getting persecuted.
“So when you think about the Erika Kirk, the Life Church, the Joel Olsteen of it all, and their desire to accumulate wealth while hood-winking their flock into thinking they’re super moral, this is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country,” Welch said.
“These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways, as a weapon and as a shield. They weaponize it whenever they want to, and say, ‘We’re on the moral high ground. You’re a lesbian. You deserve to die. You’re a lesbian. The cops shouldn’t have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans, and they brought you over here. Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food.’ And then when you call them out on it, ‘Oh, my God, they’re after the Christians. How dare they, how dare they. We’re so oppressed,'” Welch added, mocking those who are Christian.
“White Christians are so oppressed in this country, and they want it both ways, because in the religion that duplicity is taught, you can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem. And it should come as no surprise to anyone that of this cult that I’m talking about, white evangelicals over 80 percent went and voted triple Trumped.”

It is not enough to say that this is false and insulting, but I’m not here to document the elements of slander or to stoke outrage. No, as I said, my point is to explain why Welch said this — or, more generally, why Democrats view white evangelical Christians as an enemy who deserved to be smeared this way. Notice that at the end of the quoted excerpt, Welch claims that “over 80 percent” of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump three times — 2016, 2020 and 2024. Is this true? Or to proceed directly to my conclusion: How does Jennifer Welch know this?

IT’S THE EXIT POLLS, STUPID!

An important development of the past 30 or 40 years is exit polling, which allows political strategists and others to speak with some degree of certainty about which demographic segment voted for which candidate.

Prior to exit polling — which didn’t become a ubiquitous phenomenon until the 1990s — political candidates and parties lacked specific information about the nature of their own support or that of their opponents. For example, the term “gender gap” arose after the 1980 election from the discovery that, by a net margin of eight points, more men than women had voted for Ronald Reagan. In the years afterwards, as more questions were added to exit-poll surveys, more detailed information about patterns of voter preferences became available, and it was from this that Democratic Party strategists learned that the most committed Republican voters were white evangelical Christians.

After asking the basic religion question — Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, etc. — the question was added: Do you consider yourself a born-again Christian or evangelical Christian? This result then gets cross-tabbed with the race question, to identify the “white evangelical Christian” voters as a distinct category. It is because of this that we know such voters went for Trump by 80% in 2016, 76% in 2020, and 82% in 2024. How important are white evangelicals Christians as a voting bloc? They were 23% of the electorate, according to the 2024 exit polls.

Permit me, as someone born and raised a Southern Baptist, to explain the theological basis of “born again” and “evangelical.” The phrase “born again” is taken directly from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, with Jesus answering the Pharisee leader Nicodemus. The phrase also appears in I Peter 1:23, and the concept is also referenced in the sixth chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Repentance, baptism — death to the old sinful man, “born again” to a new and eternal life. This is just basic belief in every church I’ve ever attended, including the so-called “charismatic” services I visited with my childhood friend Phil Underwood, who is, like his father before him, a Church of God preacher. As for the phrase “evangelical,” this refers to preaching the Gospel to the uncoverted, in accordance with “the Great Commission” (Matthew 28:18-20): “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” And it is this zeal to make converts, by preaching the need for repentance, which makes the members of certain denominations and congregations identifiable as “evangelical” or “born-again” Christians, in distinction from those who for whatever reason think the Great Commission has expired.

There is a deep irony in the Democratic Party’s demonization of “white evangelical Christians” because, of course, the whole reason this phenomenon gained national attention in the first place was that, in 1976, a Georgia Baptist named Jimmy Carter ran for president and made his “born again” faith front-and-center in his campaign.

When it helped Democrats win an election — and Carter just barely beat Gerald Ford in 1976 — being “born again” was good. But when they identified it as a cause of Republicans winning elections, Democrats decided that, in the words of Jennifer Welch, “White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. . . . These are the worst people in our country.”

Every Democrat nodded in agreement with that remarkable denunciation, because they’ve all seen the same exit-poll data. And I am not here to preach, dear brothers and sisters, but I feel the need to point out that it doesn’t matter whether you’re white, or whether you’re a Christian, or whether you consider yourself “born again.” You could be an atheist or a Muslim, black or Asian, gay or straight — it doesn’t matter who you are, if you vote Republican, you’re a “cancer,” according to Democrats. The only category of sin they recognize is voting Republican.

Liberalism is the only faith they have, and they will cling to it all the way to the grave and beyond. God will judge them, as He will judge us all.



 

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