From Never-Trumper to Trump Voter
Four years ago, I refused to vote for Donald Trump. Four years later, I refuse not to.
I know this makes me a minority and persona non grata on Medium, but next Tuesday, November 3, 2020, I will be voting for Donald J. Trump as president of the United States of America. However, before you brand me as a “racist”, “fascist”, white-nationalist, backwards-thinking, patriarchal, unwoke monster, hear me out. I wasn’t always a Trump supporter… quite the opposite, actually.
I actually used to be like many of you, a “Dump Trump”, “Never-Trumper”. And in 2016, I even exhorted my fellow Christians to not vote for Trump. I wrote three pieces on Medium, preaching that Trump was a hypocrite, hardly pro-life, and a vote for him would destroy our democracy. The pieces were largely received with applause from my fellow progressive Christians, who pointed out that “being pro-life means more than being against abortion.” While not being a supporter of Hilary Clinton, I was looking forward to her defeat of Trump on the night of November 8, 2016. I woke up the next morning absolutely shocked to see the results. By the time he became inaugurated as president, I joined my voice in unison with the #NotMyPresident crowd. I groaned, complained, and hate-tweeted my way through the first few months of 2017.
