The Stack: Why Christians Support Trump Policy Over Personality
Why do millions of Christians continue to support Donald Trump? Filling in for Todd Huff, Gary Varvel delivers a direct and faith-centered answer: it’s about policy, not personality.
Gary walks through key issues that matter deeply to Christian voters — life, religious liberty, border security, judicial appointments, support for Israel, crime policy, the economy, and the broader cultural battle over gender and family. He argues that the overturning of Roe v. Wade, renewed emphasis on border enforcement, removal of federal DEI programs, protection of girls’ sports, and judicial appointments grounded in constitutional interpretation reflect biblical principles in action.
The program also features an updated version of Paul Harvey’s famous “If I Were the Devil,” reimagined for today’s cultural landscape. The message is clear: Christians are not voting for perfection — they’re voting against cultural collapse and for policies they believe protect faith, family, and freedom.
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📝 Transcript: Why Christians Support Trump Policy Over Personality
The Todd Huff Show – February 26, 2026
Host: Gary Varvel
Gary Varvel: You are listening to America's Home for Conservative, Not Bitter, Talk. This is the Todd Huff radio show, and I'm Gary Varvel filling in for Todd today. And I'm a political cartoonist for Creator Syndicate. I'll be sitting in for Todd today while he takes a little time off. If you're not familiar with me and my work, first of all, I'm a Christian conservative and a cartoonist in that order, but more importantly, I'm a husband to one wife, the lovely and gracious Carol, for 45 years. I'm a father of three and a grandfather of nine. And they're the most important things in my life. And because I'm going to leave them behind one day, I go home to be with the Lord. I'm concerned about what country we're leaving them. And that's why I'm sure that's why Todd does the show. It's why I do what I do. And you can see my work at Gary Varl dot com. Also, you can check out me on you check out my work on Substack at Gary Varl dot Substack dot com. That's Varl is spelled with V as in victory ARV as in victory EL regular spelling for my first name, G. A. R. Y. I produce a conservative, conservative newsletter called Varl's Views from the right and I in that newsletter, if you sign up, just sign up with your email address for free. And I will email you my newsletter that has my cartoons from that week. Plus, I do some writing, sometimes write devotional, sometimes write about current events from a biblical perspective. And that's what I'm about today.
Gary Varvel: I'd like to talk to you about faith, freedom and the results and the results, meaning what Christians stand up with Trump or they stand for Trump or support Trump. I'm going to be speaking personally, but I think that this should speak to every Christian I get asked many times, especially from people on the left. You call yourself a Christian and you support Donald Trump. How can you do that? I didn't sign up for I didn't vote for a pope or a or a pastor. I signed up for a leader, a president, someone who would do the right thing, according to the my faith and according to the Constitution. And I put my faith in there first because that's important to me. I have a worldview and I see, you know, I know. I know the separation of church and state. People are going to start screaming at me. But here I want you to hear my heart here.
Gary Varvel: If the godly don't get involved, then we the godly will be ruled by godless people. And I know a lot of godless people who are fine in the grand scheme of things, as far as their worldview. They just don't believe in God. But to be most of the people who want power in political power, it seems like to me that they if they're godless, if they don't have any kind of belief system that there is a creator, they tend to make government their God. And that's not what we want. So why do millions of Christians support Donald Trump? Is it personality, politics or policy? No, it's policy. And I'm going to break it down. It really comes down to this. It comes down to life, liberty, borders, judges, Israel, crime, the economy and the cultural battle that's shaping America's future. Also, in the last segment, I have planned to give you a what I consider a chilling update to Paul Harvey's legendary. If I were the devil, I wrote I wrote this several years ago. And I think it's I've never done it on the radio. So I thought I would just give you an update if if Paul Harvey was still alive today, he would be shocked at the changes, the technology and that kind of stuff and how the devil might use it.
Gary Varvel: So I'm going to I'm going to get into that in the last segment. But right now, let's get into Donald Trump. So the pundits, you know, they don't understand him. The leftists, they don't understand him. The late night comedians mock it, you know, progressive pastors even condemn him. But millions of believers like Catholics, evangelicals, Pentecostals, Baptists, Orthodox Christians, they continue to stand with him. And why? Why is that? Well, I think I know why. It's not because, you know, I as I already said, he's not the pastor in chief. It's because We Christians voted on policy, not personality. So let's start with life. For decades, Christians prayed for an end to Roe v. Wade. Ever since 1973, Christians have prayed, they've marched, they've voted, and they were ridiculed. But then Donald Trump came along and, and I've talked about this before. It was a, it was an utter miracle of what took, what took place. Uh, there was a Supreme Court justice opening, uh, during the presidential campaign in 2016, miraculously, uh, that was the, it was not filled. Uh, Barack Obama wanted to fill it, but Mitch McConnell held up that, uh, that vote and said, we're going to wait until after the new president's in office. Of course, at that time, everybody was believing that it was going to be Hillary Clinton, but by a miracle of miracles, Donald Trump wins.
Gary Varvel: And then Donald Trump in his first term had not one, but not two, but three openings on the Supreme Court in which he filled, and he, he filled them with. Not what I would call real conservative just justices, but they're conservative enough, and at least they had the courage to take a look at, uh, the Dow case that came before the court, which was calling for an end to Roe v. Wade, and they had the courage to finally say that this should have never been law. This should have never been approved. It's not in the constitution. Uh, and besides that, the Supreme Court can't make law. And yet it was the law of the land. So that was one of the miracles that we had. Uh, and God, after was it, uh, 49 years of Roe v. Wade, 62 million deaths, babies killed in the womb and God heard our prayers and mercifully overturned that and reversed it. Now I'd love to tell you that we've haven't had any abortion since then, but that's just not the case. Indiana, my home state, we banned abortion in our state. And, um, and of course everything kind of went to, um, chemical, uh, people taking drugs to kill the babies instead of actually having an abortionist do it. So abortions have continued, but not here in our state. They've really dropped way off.
Gary Varvel: Donald Trump cut us funding to organizations that perform or promote abortion overseas in, he moved to deep defund plan parenthood. These are all things that Christians should be for. Even if you don't like president Trump, if you don't like his personality, you should be for what he's doing.Then there's religious Liberty. He asked pastors to pray over him in the white house. He, uh, set up in the white house. Uh, faith advisory office. Um, he publicly acknowledges God. Um, he, he asked people to pray for him. He's been very friendly to the Christian community. He promotes, he even said in a recent, um, national prayer breakfast, he, he said that he wants his intention is to bring religion back to our nation. And what he was talking about was the foundation of our country. Obviously, if you read through the founding fathers and what they said and what they wrote, uh, this country is founded on biblical principles. And that's what he wants to get us back to. And I am all for that. And every Christian should be contrast that with the secular progressive movement that often treats biblical conviction, like it's extremism. Um, and, and that's, there is, it's a great, it's a demarcation. There's, it's a great contrast between the two sides. Christians noticed this.
Gary Varvel: And then there's the border, millions of illegal crossings under the previous leadership, under the previous administration, Biden just opened the borders and, and, uh, did nothing while what upwards to 20 million people came in. And along with the, the people you had human trafficking, you had Fentanyl who that came in, you had drug cartels. Um, you had criminals of all kinds as gangs, they came across the border and then just infiltrated and just kind of spread out across the country. under Trump, his border enforcement. Now, remember at the time before Trump was elected, the talk was, oh, well, Biden can't do anything because that's going to take, that's going to require the Congress to do to pass, you know, more legislation like we don't have enough already. And that's just not, that wasn't true. So, but what happened under Trump? Well, you had border enforcement, deportations, self-deportations got upwards to over 1.6 million people have self-deported, a crackdown on traffickers, disruption of the narco terrorist networks, uh, out in the Caribbean or Caribbean, if you like to say it that way, you've had narco terrorists who's trying to bring drugs to America and president Trump's been blowing them out of, out of the water. Well, that stops that supply chain.
Gary Varvel: You know, Romans 13 is not optional. Optional. Uh, Romans 13 says that God has given government's authority to rule in basically in his name. Uh, they've given them authority to do what we can't do as private citizens. And one of the, uh, one of the objectives of government is to protect its people. And that's what president Trump is trying to do. And in my opinion has been very successful. Now let's look at judges, as far as judges, he's been appointing constitutional conservatives to the federal bench on Israel and the middle East, strong support for our friends, uh, the nation of Israel and defy decisive action against Iran's nuclear threat. Now Iran for years has said that they wanted to wipe, uh, Israel off the map, calls them the little Satan and calls America the great Satan. So basically they're a threat to both of us.
Gary Varvel: And if they had nuclear weapons, they would use them. There are a lot of countries in the, around the world that have nuclear weapons, but at least have the morality not to use them. Uh, where Iran wants to use them as an offensive weapon to just destroy their enemies and they see Israel as their enemy. And so an America. And so, uh, Donald Trump assisted Israel in taking out their nuclear threat. Now, as I'm talking right here, Iran is busy trying to rebuild that, but at least we've now put them backwards in their timeline of getting the nuclear threat and new nuclear weapons. Um, Donald Trump also took action against terrorists, uh, who were murdering, uh, Christians in Nigeria. And so this is a president who takes actions to protect his people, the Americans and also Christians on crime. Uh, in DC carjackings are down 81%, homicides are down 71%. And he also reinstated the, the death penalty in DC for murderers. This is all had quite a deterrence factor. And as he said many times now that he's, his actions, his policies have made DC a safe place to walk around in again.
Gary Varvel: On culture, removing, uh, the federal DEI programs, rolling back the radical gender policies and education, which he's also for protecting girls sports, uh, from having men playing in, in girls sports. And, uh, he's recent, he reinstated the military standard so that transgenders are not going to be in the military. A Christian sees something here. We, we see that this is all positive. This is all what we want. This is what these are biblical standards that we just, we hoped that our leaders would have, but have not in, in recent years, the Democrats have really The Democrats have really switched in their whole philosophy. It seems like this is not the FDR Democratic Party. This is not the JFK or Democratic Party anymore. No, it's they've become so progressive. You know, when they were liberals, you could disagree with them. But then because they were liberals, they would allow you to have their position. They would be tolerant, but they're not tolerant anymore. They're progressives. And if you disagree with them, then they call you a hate monger. It's a whole different thing that I as a Christian cannot support. They support abortion, gay marriage, transgenders, transgender surgeries, which is basically especially for children. Mutilation of teenagers. Even if it's chemical, it's it's ruining their future as far as their the possibility of them becoming parents. Let's say they change their mind and and most kids do, and we just recently had a court case that found for the the plaintiff for two million dollars because it was a girl. And she was talked into removing her breasts and now she wants to go back to being a girl. And so she sued the doctors who did it and in the hospital and she won two million dollars. Chloe Cole has a case where she's suing for the same thing. So my hope and I've drawn a cartoon about that is, you know, like this wave of coming over these hospitals that have been pro gender reassignment in hopes that, you know, we'll see a stoppage of that. Now, on the 17th or 16th of this month, we had the story of a transgender man, a transgender woman. Actually, it's a man dressed as a woman and he kind of went crazy and shot up during a hockey game, shot his family and then shot himself. And so we've seen more and more transgender people doing horribly violent acts and that should cause a question mark for all of us.
Gary Varvel: Now, we as Christians know that God made us male and female. He made two genders. That's it. And you can't switch back and forth. You can't change a person's chromosomes. You can dress up. You can do that. But that doesn't make you a different gender. And I also find it interesting and other people have mentioned this as well, as, you know, sometimes they when they're these they they have gender dysphoria and they call themselves they instead of he or she. And the only other place I see that is in the Bible and the demoniac in Ghidara called himself in the plural sense said we are many. He's you know, Jesus said, what is your name? He said, it's a legion because we are many in here. And so that I say that to say is, is there some kind of demonic possession going on with people who get that far down the road and do the most irrational things? I know that, you know, in our day and age, we call it mental illness, but I think that is also a spiritual problem going on here.
Gary Varvel: Getting back to Trump. We see someone willing to fight a cultural revolution. He's erasing distinctions between the culture that's trying to do, distinguish or erase distinctions between male and female and the people who are trying to rewrite history. Trump is coming against that. He sees that there's a weakening of the families when this happens, and he's trying to stop it. Then there's the economy there. We have lower gas prices, prices nationwide are dipping below three dollars a gallon. They had constantly gone up during the Biden administration, you know, and then the other side likes to talk about affordability. Well, and they were crying about egg prices when Trump was first elected. Now egg prices are way down. The markets are hitting records. The stock market hit over 50,000 recently. The tariffs, which we were all supposed to be scared to death. Oh, Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
Gary Varvel: And tariffs are going to cause all kinds of inflation. We have low inflation now. The terrorists are starting to kick in, and what's happening is it's starting to bring money into our country. Drug costs agreements that Trump has made, so it's lowering drug prices for everybody. These are all positives for the working family, whether they're Christian or not. These are all bonuses. He's starting to bring manufacturing back. Some of the companies Eli Lilly is talking about committed billions of dollars. Some of the other countries, I don't know the exact amounts, but they're going to bring manufacturing back here. Now, granted, some of them may be AI, but that still, it never made sense that we were allowing so much of our manufacturing to go overseas and then becoming dependent on foreign countries. For instance, our pharmaceuticals, that never made any sense. That should have always been maintained here in the United States. So, you know, critics can say, how can Christians support him? The better question might be compared to what? What is the Democrats' plan? To a worldview that celebrates abortion up to birth, that celebrates open borders, to the normalization of gender confusion in elementary schools. None of this makes any sense, and Christians can't stand for that.
Gary Varvel: You no matter, you know, no matter if the person is nice, if this is their policies, if this is what they stand for and they believe and this is what they want to implement into our country, Christians have to stand up and say no. So for Christians like myself, it comes down to this. Look, we believe only God can save America. But he wants Christians to make biblical choices. Jeremiah 16, 19 says this. Here you earth, I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law. And that's what we're to expect if we reject God's law. So what are we to do? Christians, this is the advice from Second Chronicles 714. You know it well. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.
Gary Varvel: So I got to ask you, will you reject God's law with the next election? Or will you vote like a Christian and vote for biblical values? That's the option. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Todd Huff radio show. Thank you. Welcome back to the Todd Huff radio program. This is America's home for conservative, not bitter talk and education. I'm cartoonist Gary Varvel filling in for Todd today and I want to share with you something I wrote a few years ago and I was always fascinated with Paul Harvey's If I Were the Devil. It was he first broadcast that in 1965 and a few years ago it came to my attention again and it's amazing you know how he predicted where things were going and and I thought well you know things have changed a lot since he was alive and maybe it's time to update it so I want to give him full credit but I'm just gonna add and change a few things and like I said he would be amazed at you know here he amazed his radio audience with what he described as the devil doing but he'd be I think Harvey'd be amazed today at what has happened it's been 61 years since that broadcast so it's time to update it so here goes and I'm not gonna do his voice because I can't do his voice but here it goes if I were the devil.
Gary Varvel: If I were the devil, if I were the prince of the power of the air I'd cover the world in darkness by using technology I'd use glowing screens in every hand to darken the minds and disciple a generation to worship themselves but I wouldn't be satisfied until I'd pick the choicest fruit from the tree the I'd set out to fundamentally transform the United States by destroying its godly heritage. I would rewrite America's history. I would demonize her founders. I would convince her children that their nation was evil from the start, causing the simple-minded to tear down their statues. Then I'd go after the churches. With the wisdom of a serpent, I'd persuade worshippers to trust their emotions over the Bible. I'd persuade pastors that if they want to grow their church, they need to preach about happiness instead of holiness, and prosperity instead of sin. No longer believing in hell and judgment, the people would be so focused on themselves that they will stop caring for others. And then I'd persuade the young, as I persuaded Eve, be your own god. And I'd teach the elderly to pray, Our Father, which art in Washington. If I were the devil, I'd redefine good as evil, and evil as good. I would flood entertainment with vulgarity until abnormal seemed normal. Soon I'd have them confused about their identity. I'd blur the line between male and female. I'd tell the girls they are boys, and tell the boys they are girls, and that it's okay to compete in girls' sports.
Gary Varvel: Then I'd have the news reporters promoting propaganda and their progressive agenda, which would further divide the people. If I were the devil, the father of lies, I'd fill the courts with godless judges so that they will remove God and the Bible from the public schools and call it neutrality. Students would be taught that evolution is true, and God is a myth. And once they believed that they had evolved from animals, they'd act like animals, requiring schools to install metal detectors and police guards. Then I'll have them divide by race and class, and fill them with hate for their parents and the police and each other. I'd whisper to them, since there is no God, there is no right or wrong, so do whatever feels good. This will make them selfish, prideful, conceited, unloving, unforgiving, and ungrateful. Though if I were the devil, I'd destroy the nuclear family and replace fathers with the state. Within a generation, the prisons would be overflowing, so I'd have progressive prosecutors release the criminals to continue their attacks on society.
Gary Varvel: If that weren't enough, I'd destroy their country from within with an ever-expansive government funded with deficit spending. I'd kill incentive to work and make them dependent on welfare. I'd impose an idiot tax called gambling. Once they were hooked, I'd intoxicate them with alcohol and drugs to lower their inhibitions and destroy their ambitions. Stripped of their dignity and hope, they'll become homeless, living on the streets, and even defecating in public. But the transformation would not be complete until I opened the borders for an invasion of human traffickers, drug runners, human traffickers, and terrorists. In other words, if I were the devil, I'd just keep right on doing what he's already been doing. And that's my updated version of Paul Harvey, if I were the devil. So look, that just scratches the surface of some of the problems America is facing. We could do lots of programs on just illegal immigration. That poem there, or not poem, but that rewriting of If I Were the Devil, it's just a glimpse.
Gary Varvel: You know, at the end I mentioned the border, open borders. That was so much damage was done because of that. And I've drawn cartoons about why. Um, Biden was doing it and was they were importing future voters is what they were doing Get them here Uh from all over the world Um give them stuff You know pay for their housing or food or whatever And just the fact that they're living here hoped that in the future they would keep that money train going just by voting for democrats And that's why they're so upset that trump is deporting them because he's they see it as he's deporting their future voters You know you go back and look at some of the quotes from chuck schumer and hillary clinton bill clinton even barack obama And they were all talking about how you had to secure the borders. Well, then they completely flipped. What's the explanation? How do you explain it? Because they're having a hard time convincing people to Vote for them and their policies which what are their policies? Can you give me any indication of what they want to do? If they're elected Again back into office, let's say they win the next presidency. What what are they what's their plan? More of the same that we had during the biden administration, which was a train wreck I I just it boggles my mind That people saw they could actually have having lived through it could say that no things weren't so bad They were going the wrong direction Donald trump is right when he says he inherited a mess And he's done it on just amazingly masterful job and it's because of reversing that trend and it's because that he has put people in place Who know how to get things done and they had a plan in the four years that they were out of office They weren't just sitting on the sidelines They were planning for when they got back into power And how to turn this country around and they have turned it around very quickly,
Gary Varvel: but I've got a warning for you The midterm elections are right around the corner. What about eight months away? And If The democrats went back the house and they're trying very hard to do that by gerrymandering gerrymandering these different states like california virginia So that republicans have no representation And if the democrats went back the house Then what you're going to see the next two years is constant impeachments investigations constant all kinds of problems Accusations against the president. He'll be called up and impeached many times And nothing, you know, they will stop him from Furthering his agenda at every turn.
Gary Varvel: Is that what we want? Is that what god wants Christian i'm talking to the christians right now So will you reject god's law in the midterm elections? As a christian, I will not participate in america's suicide by voting For a party or a person who advocates for the murder of babies in the womb supports same-sex marriage or encourages transgender mutilation surgeries for minors All that ignores god and his word In our culture And we'll either be ruled by godless people And we saw what that happened what you get when that happens Or you can try to get people in office who Are at least friendly to the christian and biblical perspective
Gary Varvel: As for me in my house We will serve the lord And we'll serve the lord by voting for the person or party that closely aligns with god's word. That's it Not perfect people because there are no such thing Jesus christ is the only perfect one but he gives us an option and We should take the option of voting for the people who we believe Will benefit this country in its future have its best interest in in mine and that would be voting for biblical principles over Some of the insanity that we've seen I'll be right back. I'm gary varville sitting in for todd huff On the conservative but not bitter to talk radio network Welcome back to the todd huff radio show i'm gary varville filling in I want to shift gears just a little bit here. So we uh wrap up this last segment I've appreciated the opportunity to be with you today And I hope you'll go to gary varville calm. Take a look at my work I hope you'll sign up for my newsletter varville's views from the right
Gary Varvel: I recently saw Senator Josh Hawley speaking in an interview, and he said some things that now he seems to be a very strong Christian. I saw that he spoke at Liberty University, but what he said was absolutely right on. He said that God doesn't need us to accomplish his will, and that's true. He doesn't need us. But he usually chooses us as the means to accomplish his will. Now, why does he do that? He didn't have to do that, but that's what he chooses to do. And I think it's that that's the love of a father wanting to connect with his child and accomplish, you know, the greatest times of my life I can remember back as as a father is doing something specifically with one of my children, whether it be coaching them in some sport or working on with them on a movie or a play or something where we were doing it together. And those are just blessed times, and I think that's what God the Father wants with us.
Gary Varvel: But Josh Hawley says, you know, we're the means. And so he used the example of someone is called to preach. Someone's called to defend in court. Someone is called to speak the truth to the culture. And I see that as my job. I'm trying to speak truth to the culture. I think that's what Todd Huff is doing as well. He has he's called us to raise families, which are the foundation of our society. The family is where children learn to they grow up and mature. They learn to respect authority. They learn to work hard. They learn to care about one another and their and their family and their neighborhood and their neighbors. And and it's our willingness to serve God. That'll determine our destiny.
Gary Varvel: And we've got a lot of people in the country who don't know God, who don't know Jesus Christ. But those of us who do know him, our our destiny is a country and God is waiting on us and giving us opportunities. And if we don't do anything, then we will bear some bitter fruit down the road. Holly went on to say that don't live for your career or money or fame. Live for live your life for a higher calling of God. I agree with them. This is why you have the skills you have and why you've why you were placed here. You know, it made me think of Acts 17, the book of Acts 17, verses 26 and 27, which basically says this from one man, God created all the people of the earth, all the nations of the world. And he chose the exact places and times in which everyone would live. And he did this so that we might see him. And if we seek him, we'll find him because he's not far from each one of us. So you connect that thought that you're not an accident. You were planned. God has a plan for you. And then when you look at Ephesians 2 10, which says that we are God's masterpiece created in Christ Jesus. That's what the New Living Translation says. We are God's masterpiece created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has prepared in advance for us to do.
Gary Varvel: So you have a purpose. Now here's why Christians should support Trump. Going back to my first segment, he defunded Planned Parenthood. He ordered the federal government to recognize only two genders, not transgenders, only two genders. He ordered the government to prioritize humans over fish, which reinstates the created order in Genesis chapter two. People are made in the image of God, not the other animals, not the creatures. He ordered that men will not ruin women's sports by pretending to be women. Amen to that. He also doesn't want them in the military either. Our fighting force is not designed for DEI. Our fighting force is designed for one thing, and that is to fight wars.
Gary Varvel: He's appointed people who publicly profess Jesus Christ as Savior to positions of power. When I say he, I mean Donald Trump. Many of them spoke at Charlie Kirk's funeral, and that was just amazing to hear the name of Jesus Christ repeated over and over. And Trump is bringing things to light in that the government is held in darkness, like fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayers' money. We're $38 trillion in debt. And I can't imagine how many trillions of it have just been wasted and in fraud. People have gotten rich off of the government using the taxpayers as patsies. I'm going to finish with this. In 1883, a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln warned America that if our destruction ever comes, it will not come from abroad. It will rise from within, and we will be the author and finisher of our own demise. That's the crossroads. Christians aren't voting for the perfect man. They're voting against cultural suicide. They're voting for life over death, order over chaos, faith in Christ over secularism, family over state control, truth over confusion. That's why they stand. That's where they stand. And whether you agree or disagree, at least now you understand. This is The Todd Huff Radio Show. I'm Gary Varvel, filling in. Thanks. I've had a great time with you. God bless America.
