Africa: Dynamics of Religion, Politics in U.S - Evangelicals Won It for Trump

5 December 2016
opinion

In my article in Daily Monitor October of 31, prior to the US Presidential elections, I argued that although the Evangelicals in USA were disillusioned with either choice of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, the majority preferred to back Trump since he pledged to promote a conservative political religious agenda as opposed to the secularist and humanistic liberal agenda touted by Democrat Clinton and her 'god father' president Barrack Obama.

When I summed up my argument in the same article that, it will be interesting to note if the Evangelicals and fundamentalist will shake the Democratic machinery that is behind Clinton and propped by CNN and mass media fraternity; little did I realise that the Evangelicals and conservatives constituted a mass movement.

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