Christian Conservatives Can’t Import A New Electorate Like Democrats, But We Can Have Lots Of Babies

Republicans are still dusting themselves off after Tuesday’s midterm battering. Christian conservatives, in particular, are recognizing that while Christ is and always will be on the throne, we’ve got to put up a better fight against the people who would seek to destroy everything we hold dear. That’s easier said than done when Democrats are essentially importing a permanent electorate for themselves. Texas is instructive. Democrats not only flipped the state blue, but they did so with millions of new voters. For three election cycles in a row, Republican Gov. Gregg Abbott garnered roughly the same number of votes, about 4.5 million. His previous two Democrat challengers got about the same vote totals too: Both Lupe Valdez and Beto O’Rourke received about 3.5 million apiece in 2018 and 2022, respectively. This cycle, however, Democrat Gina Hinojosa blew Abbott and her party’s predecessors out of the water with 5.2 million votes. There’s no way to know how much of this was due to voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote operations, versus blue-state exodus to Texas, versus noncitizen voter fraud. We know this fraud is happening on some level, despite the left-wing media’s obfuscation, and it’s aided and abetted by lawmakers stymieing efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote. But even if fraud isn’t the primary cause — and it likely isn’t — unfettered immigration has driven up Americans’ cost of living, dramatically fractured our cultural identity, and inflated population totals in sanctuary areas, giving Democrats more power in Congress and the Electoral College. It’s not just Texas; this is happening across the country. Generational Americans are being outnumbered by newcomers and finding their homeland increasingly unrecognizable. As my colleague Hayden Daniel reported, demographic shifts are even remaking deep-red Mississippi. That’s because Democrats know demographics is destiny. They haven’t been shy about their plans to turn foreigners into blue voters with mass amnesty and rubber-stamped citizenship. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman wrote last year, “Given the chance, Democrats will choose voter registration over deportation.” After Tuesday’s blue tsunami, it’s only a matter of time. So what are conservatives to do? Deportations and election integrity are worthy Republican causes, and the GOP should pursue those policies at every opportunity. Polls showed immigration was the only winning issue for Republicans this election; they would be foolish to fall for amnesty now, as some are already doing. But even deportations can only do so much when Democrats fling open the border every chance they get, and Republican lawmakers have shown they completely lack the cojones to ensure only citizens are casting a ballot. It’s enraging to conservative voters who are antsy to do something productive. But there’s one thing conservative Christians in particular can and should do an awful lot more of than we’re doing now: Get busy and multiply. The media can mock the strategy, and cynical Christians can scoff at how long it would take to get the numbers and raise a brand new generation to defeat the iconoclasts. But make no mistake: The Democrats are playing the long game. And while they’re waving the next generation of leftist “Americans” across the Rio Grande, Christians all across the country are contracepting their way out of cultural renewal as they throw up their hands in defeat. Perhaps Christians should start asking ourselves why we get so indignant about James Talarico saying the Bible is “silent on abortion,” and so discouraged by states like Virginia enshrining anti-life radicalism into law, even as we go to great lengths to prevent new lives from forming in our marriage beds. We’re quick to regard big families as weird, suppress our natural fertility, and even sterilize ourselves. And though we comfort ourselves with the fact that we would never kill a baby in the womb, we do everything in our power to ensure one never starts growing there in the first place, at least not until we’re “ready” for it. We should ask ourselves why. Comfort, careers, and control so often take priority, even if we don’t realize it or want to admit it. All Christians should go and make disciples, but maybe we should start by making more under our own roofs. The Great Commission starts at home. Too many of us are going with the cultural contraceptive current with no regard to how it’s affecting not only our families and our souls but also the future of our great country. The Bible teaches that children are a wonderfully made, good and perfect gift from God. They’re a reward, a heritage, and a blessing. If we really lived like that, there would be a lot more of us. And if there were a lot more of us, just imagine what we could do at the ballot box. Kylee Griswold is the managing editor of The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in communication arts/speech and an A.S. in criminal justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religion, and the media. Follow her on Twitter @kyleegriswold. BibleChristian votersChristianityChristianscontraceptionCultureDemocratsElectionsFaithfamiliesGreg AbbottImmigrationJames Talaricomass immigrationMidtermsparentingPoliticsRepublicansTexas