• Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Shop
  • Newsletter
Faithfully Magazine
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
  • About
    • Staff and Advisors
    • Advertise With Us
    • Submissions
  • Q&As
    John Blake photo by John Nowak for CNN

    CNN Reporter Talks Race, Faith and Reconciliation in Powerful Memoir ‘More Than I Imagined’

    Brown Baby Jesus author Dorena Williamson

    Author Celebrates Jesus’ Messy, Multiethnic Family Tree in ‘Brown Baby Jesus’

    KevOnStage and MrsKevOnStage in an interview with Faithfully Magazine.

    Interview: KevOnStage and MrsKevOnStage Talk Sex, Therapy, and Why ‘Marriage Be Hard’ (Video)

    Christina Edmondson and Ekemini Uwan on Truth's Table book

    ‘Truth’s Table’ Authors Talk Early Beginnings, Centering Black Women, and Inspiring One Another

  • Exclusives
    Karen Abercrombie

    After Award-Winning Role in Top-Grossing Christian Movie, Karen Abercrombie Is Leading Change From Within

    black women group

    ‘Righteous and Ratchet’ Black Women of Faith Embraced on Jemele Hill’s ‘Sanctified’ Podcast

    Josh McDowell

    Apologist Josh McDowell Backtracks After Claiming Black Families Don’t Value Education

    Christian author and preacher Dr. Voddie Baucham

    ‘Fault Lines’ Author Voddie Baucham Confused or Making Things Up, Richard Delgado Says in Response to Misquote on ‘Righteous Actions’ of Whites

  • Profiled
    Chris Broussard

    Sports Analyst Chris Broussard Uses Hoops and Christianity to Address Needs of Young Men

    Bishop Noel Jones

    Bishop Noel Jones: Engagement, Life, Family and Ministry (Profiled)

    nadine raphael

    From Prison to the Pulpit: Nadine Raphael on God’s ‘Greater Plan’ for Her Life (Profiled)

    lisa sharon harper

    Lisa Sharon Harper Is Her ‘Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams’ (Profiled)

  • Remember
    Rev. Dr. William Hiram Bentley

    Black Evangelicalism and the Reforming Influence of William H. Bentley

    Marie Bassili Assaad and Mother Irene

    Knitting Together the Community of Love: Lessons From Marie Bassili Assaad and Mother Irene

    Rev. Sutton E. Griggs

    The Complex Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs: From Respected Leader to Race Traitor?

    fannie lou hamer

    Fannie Lou Hamer: Forerunner of Faith-Driven, Pro-Life Democrats (Remember)

  • Opinion & Analysis
    migrants

    When Faith Says to Help Migrants — and the Law Says Don’t

    couple with child

    Missionary System That Brought US Man Accused of Abusing African ‘Orphans’ Was Always Deeply Flawed

    Civil Rights March 1963

    The Women Who Stood With Martin Luther King Jr. and Sustained a Movement for Social Change

    pile of books

    In New Jersey, School Segregation Didn’t End; It Evolved

  • Specials
    • All
    • Growing a Green Church
    clean energy

    Can Money-Making Microgrids Empower Black Churches to Close the Clean Energy Gap?

    laudato trees earthbeat

    Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC’s Canopy

SUBSCRIBE
  • Login
  • Register
No Result
View All Result
Faithfully Magazine
No Result
View All Result

The Coronavirus Will Likely Cost Trump and the Gop the Election

Sharon Oliver by Sharon Oliver
October 20, 2020
Reading Time: 3 mins read
Donald Trump

Donald Trump. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/CC)

ShareTweetPin It

RELATED POSTS

NJ Faith Leaders Want Community-Led Solutions Not Police-Led Responses

Unlearning Racism As a Non-Black Person of Color

Will the Black Church Continue to Sing R. Kelly’s ‘I Believe I Can Fly’?

To say we are living in strange times would be a gross understatement. The world is experiencing the worst pandemic it’s seen since the past 100 years, with the United States leading the way in deaths and infections. Our current political landscape is a threat to democracy, national security, and actual lives. President Donald Trump’s glaring incompetency assisted by a feckless Republican-led Congress has forced a number of lifelong Republican voters to surprisingly align themselves with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Organizations such as The Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump are consistently producing some of the most needling and effective campaign ads ever seen when it comes to bringing awareness to viewers and voters.

One of the most appalling Trump atrocities is his handling (or mishandling) of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Trump spent nearly a month calling the virus a hoax, and dragged his feet in helping hospitals across the country while blaming the former administration for not acting on a virus that did not exist when Obama was in office. While GOP silence is indeed deafening, the party’s denial of and attacks on medical science are equally disgraceful. When Republican congressmen (the women seem even more muzzled) dare to speak, their voices usually echo Trump’s talking points. This pure lack of leadership will likely cost most who are running for re-election their seats, even if they try changing their message just prior to November. The die has already been cast and people have cast-iron memories.

As the nation’s COVID-19 infection and death rates grow, Trump has resorted to a one-man show of daily briefings with no medical expert in sight. Instead, he uses the platform to tout conspiracy theories, push provable lies, whine, and completely bungle messaging that should inform and guide the citizens he was elected to govern.

Meanwhile, Trump congressional loyalists shuck off their duties to their constituents in order to remain in a supine position. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis blamed his home state’s COVID-19 spike on the Hispanic population not wearing masks or social distancing. Never mind Republicans who mocked the idea of wearing face coverings and ridiculed staffers for doing so while strutting around the Capitol. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Ohio House Rep. Jim Jordan faithfully launch partisan attacks against infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci at every opportunity availed to them.

Do they realize this is an election year? Americans do not live in a faux universe or within the confines of a reality television series. Cozying up to a president because they relish having or being so close to power, will not do. In the real world, Americans are sick and dying. They are struggling with recovery and burying their dead. Americans are facing evictions, with an estimated 12 million possibly looking at homelessness by the end of September. Americans, by the millions, have filed for unemployment. They can’t pay their electric bill or car note, or for their prescriptions. Americans are losing health insurance when they need it most, in the midst of a pandemic. Americans are worried about how they will continue to feed their families while sitting in mile-long traffic for food bank rations. So come this November, come heaven or high water, via mail-in ballot or in-person voting, Americans marred by such sufferings—framed by the cavalier attitudes of politicians void of leadership—will remember those who took their livelihoods for granted. Americans will remind Donald Trump and his GOP soldiers that, collectively, they also wield great power.


Share This Post

Share via

Share This Post

  • Digg
  • Tumblr
  • Flipboard
  • SMS
More
  • Report
ShareTweetPin It
Tags: From The MagazineOpinionPresidential Election
Sharon Oliver

Sharon Oliver

Sharon Oliver is a published author of Christian fiction and freelance writer covering entertainment, politics, social issues, and other subjects. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she currently resides in the sunny South. Read more of her work at Culture Sonar and follow her on Twitter @olivershar7.

Related Posts

police
Opinion

NJ Faith Leaders Want Community-Led Solutions Not Police-Led Responses

June 2, 2023
A business at 314 Broad Street in Leland, Mississippi, as seen on January 1, 1939
Opinion

The Real ‘Great Replacement’: When Resentful Whites Recruited Foreigners to Undermine Black Progress

June 1, 2022

Recommended Stories

Hundreds of Separated Families May Get Second Shot at Seeking Asylum

Hundreds of Separated Families May Get Second Shot at Seeking Asylum

September 13, 2018
Adamma and Adanne Ebo on the set of Honk for Jesus Save Your Soul

‘Honk for Jesus’: How the Ebo Sisters’ Outrageous Megachurch Comedy Saved Their Souls

August 28, 2022
Nick Cannon Alyssa Scott Son Zane

‘I Have So Much Faith in God,’ Nick Cannon Says After Revealing Death of His Son Zen

December 8, 2021

Popular Stories

  • stream movies laptop

    Free Christian Movies: How and Where to Watch Free Christian Movies Online

    464 shares
    Share 185 Tweet 116
  • Are Jesus and John the Baptist Cousins or Related in Anyway?

    418 shares
    Share 167 Tweet 104
  • Paige Hilken, Wife of North Coast Church Pastor Christopher Hilken, Dies by Suicide

    408 shares
    Share 163 Tweet 102
  • After 20 Years, Bishop Noel Jones Says He’s Finally Ready to Marry Partner Loretta Jones

    365 shares
    Share 146 Tweet 91
  • NYC Megachurch Pastor A.R. Bernard’s Son Dies After Losing Battle With Alcoholism

    286 shares
    Share 114 Tweet 71

Copyright © 2023 Faithfully Media, LLC. This website participates in affiliate programs.

No Result
View All Result
  • About
    • Staff and Advisors
    • Advertise With Us
    • Submissions
  • Q&As
  • Exclusives
  • Profiled
  • Remember
  • Opinion & Analysis
  • Specials

Copyright © 2023 Faithfully Media, LLC. This website participates in affiliate programs.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Share via

Share This Post

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • Email
  • WhatsApp
  • Copy Link
  • Tumblr
  • Digg
  • Flipboard
  • SMS

Add New Playlist

Add to Collection

  • Public collection title

  • Private collection title

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.

Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?
Send this to a friend