People say you shouldn’t demonize your political opponents, such as calling them “evil.” That may have been true when the differences in the two parties were mainly related to economics and foreign policy. Indeed, it would be foolish to demonize those who have a different tax policy than we do. But today, far more separates the two parties than economics and foreign policy. Each party has taken sides on major moral issues. Moral issues pertain to good and evil, and thus a party should be considered good or evil depending on what moral issues it is advancing. If one party is consistently using its power to advance moral issues that are evil, then it follows that we should consider the party itself to be evil (and by extension, the office-holders and candidates representing that party).
I recognize that not every party will take the correct position on every moral issue. Each party will be a mixed bag, but the mix isn’t necessarily the same for each party. For example, if party A takes the wrong side on 1 out of 5 moral issues, whereas party B takes the wrong side on 4 out of 5 moral issues, then party B is objectively more evil than party A.
In current politics, I’m convinced that the Democratic Party is evil. They have taken the wrong side on just about every moral issue. They are pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-same-sex marriage, pro-transgender, pro-suicide, pro-discrimination (DEI, CRT), pro-embryonic stem cell research, etc. If you are using your political power to advance a host of morally evil causes, you should rightly be considered morally evil. That doesn’t mean there is no good in the Democratic Party, but it does mean that any good in the party is outweighed by its evil (in the same way the Nazi party brought some good to Germany, but that good was far outweighed by the moral evil of the Final Solution). As such, no one (particularly Christians) should support the party. If you do, you are complicit in their evil.
Having said that, I recognize that there is a distinction between a political party and the citizens who vote for that party. Someone who votes for an evil political party is not necessarily evil themselves. Many people vote for a political candidate or political party for shallow reasons, largely ignorant of that candidate’s positions on various moral issues. I don’t excuse their ignorance, but I wouldn’t consider such a person to be evil (even though their vote is helping to further evil). However, other people vote for candidates and parties with full knowledge of what they support. Whether they vote for Democrats because of their support for these moral issues, or in spite of their support for these moral issues, they are just as morally culpable as the evil party they are supporting.
Thinking to Believe 
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 am
Well, as long as we’re classifying whole political parties as good or evil, and the Democratic Party has been marked as being not just less good, but evil, would you say then that the present-day Trumpian-dominated Christian Nationalist Republican party is good?
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October 26, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Is it wrong to call evil, evil? When a political party uses their power to implement, protect, or further multiple evil purposes, what else should we call them? I am simply recognizing what they are doing and labeling it appropriately. Would you not call the Democrat Party of the 1850s evil for their support of slavery? Would you not call the Nazi Party evil for their extermination of the Jews? Obviously, political parties can be responsible for such a great amount of evil that it is appropriate to consider the party to be an evil organization.
Is the Republican party good? Yes, in the sense that they are on the right side of the most important moral issues of our day: abortion, LGBTQ, euthanasia, transgenderism, etc. That’s not to say that all of their policies are in line with a Christian moral worldview, but when it comes to voting, the fact of the matter is that we are a two party system. The choice is never between morally perfect and morally abominable. It’s a choice between grades of good and grades of evil. When we are only presented with two choices, and one of them will be in power, we must choose the greater of the two goods (or the lesser of two evils, depending on how you look at it). When you ask yourself which party will use its power to do more good and less evil, the Republican party is the clear winner. It’s not even close.
And calling the Republican party a Christian Nationalist party is just a smear tactic.
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