Republican Friends, If Trump Were a Democrat, I Wouldn't Have Supported Him.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Jan 21, 2026 · 5m

Republican friends, if I were in your shoes a decade ago, we wouldn’t be here right now.

If he had run as a Democrat, it would have been a nonstarter.

You wouldn’t have needed to spend the last ten years trying to convince me or lobby my conscience, or reach down into my humanity to alter my political allegiance.

You wouldn’t be exhausting yourself trying to figure out how to break me of my unwavering cultic fervor to a traitorous rapist.

You wouldn’t have had to continually appeal to my professed religious tradition or my respect for the Constitution or to our shared humanity in order to…