10/17/2026
I'm the MAGA Monster You Were Warned About. Read This Before You Vote.
Who is MAGA? He's the man who did your taxes last spring. She's the nurse who held your hand in the ER. He's the deputy who pulled your teenager out of a wrecked car on Highway 133. She's the Sunday school teacher who taught your kids the 23rd Psalm.
We're MAGA. And I'd like to tell you who we really are, because I don't think anyone has.
My name is Dennis Futch. I've lived my whole life in South Georgia. I've been married to my wife Angela since 1989. I have children and four granddaughters who are the light of my life. For over 35 years I've helped folks in Moultrie with their taxes, and in that time I've sat across the desk from thousands of people: Republicans, Democrats, and folks who've never voted a day in their lives.
I've watched a young couple realize they owe more in taxes than they saved all year. I've watched a widow try to figure out how to keep the farm her husband worked for 40 years. I've watched a small business owner wonder if he can make payroll after the latest round of fees and regulations. None of them asked me whether I was a Republican or a Democrat. They asked me for help.
That's where my politics come from. Not hate. Not anger. Real people with real problems, and a Bible I actually believe.
And let me say something you may not expect from a guy like me: most Democrats I know are good people. They don't wake up wanting to hurt America. They want to help people. They believe they're being compassionate. I don't doubt your heart. I just believe good intentions aren't enough, and that the road you've been sold leads somewhere you don't really want to go.
It Starts With the Bible
Most MAGA folks I know didn't get their values from a politician. We got them from Scripture, from our mamas and daddies, and from a church pew. So forget Republican and Democrat for a minute, open the Bible, and ask yourself the question most people never want to ask: does what I support politically actually line up with what I claim to believe?
We believe life is sacred. Psalm 139:13 says, "You knit me together in my mother's womb." Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." Proverbs 6 says the Lord hates "hands that shed innocent blood." An unborn child has his or her own DNA, heartbeat, and future. You can call abortion healthcare or choice, but changing the words doesn't change what happens. We believe that child deserves protection, and we believe in standing with the mother too, through pregnancy centers, adoption, and churches that show up.
We believe God made us male and female. Genesis 1:27 says, "Male and female he created them." Feelings don't rewrite chromosomes, and government can't repeal biology. Gender dysphoria is real distress, and people struggling with it deserve compassion. But compassion never requires lying. That's why we believe girls deserve to compete against girls, with fair races and safe locker rooms.
We believe in marriage as Jesus defined it. In Matthew 19, Jesus said the Creator "made them male and female," and that a man shall be united to his wife and the two become one flesh. Jesus didn't leave much room for confusion there.
We believe God gave children to parents. Deuteronomy 6, Proverbs 22:6, and Ephesians 6:4 put the raising of children on the family. Not on activists, bureaucrats, or government agencies. Schools have a role, but Mama and Daddy come first.
We believe in work, responsibility, and real compassion. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 says, "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat." Notice the word unwilling. The Bible commands us to care for widows, orphans, the poor, and the disabled, and we do. But 1 Timothy 5:8 also says a man who won't provide for his own household has denied the faith. And 2 Corinthians 9:7 says, "God loves a cheerful giver." Biblical charity comes from a willing heart. It's not the same as politicians taking somebody else's money, spending it, and calling themselves compassionate.
What Else We Stand For
We believe your paycheck belongs to you. You got up early, you worked hard, you earned it. Government produces nothing until it first takes it from somebody who did. That's why I've fought to eliminate Georgia's income tax. Not to help the rich, but to help the waitress, the mechanic, and the young family trying to get ahead.
We believe in equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. Everybody deserves a fair shot. But hard work, discipline, sacrifice, and good decisions matter, and pretending they don't robs people of the very things that lift them up. When someone succeeds, that's not proof somebody cheated. It's usually proof somebody worked.
We believe free enterprise is a blessing. Air conditioning, modern medicine, smartphones, dependable trucks, and food on every grocery shelf didn't come from government. They came from farmers, builders, inventors, investors, and workers. The poorest American today lives better than kings once did. Socialism has been tried over and over, and it has never delivered anything but shared misery. We'd rather keep the system that built the most prosperous nation in history.
We believe a country needs a border. Not because we hate anyone, but because we love our own. Every one of us locks our front door at night. That's not cruelty. It's responsibility. We welcome those who come the right way. Many of the proudest Americans I know were born somewhere else.
We believe in protecting every child, period. No MAGA voter condones pe*****les, Jeffrey Epstein, or anyone who harms a child. We want every one of them exposed and punished, no matter their party, their money, or their connections.
We believe in the Constitution as written. Free speech for everybody, not just the side in power. Freedom of worship. The right to protect your family. Those rights come from God, not Washington, and the men who secured them deserve our gratitude, not to have their statues torn down.
We believe in law, order, and the people who keep us safe. I helped start the Moultrie First Responders Association because those men and women run toward danger for us. They deserve our thanks, not our scorn. And we believe a criminal is responsible for his own crime. We care more about the victim than the offender.
"But What About…?"
I've heard every argument there is, so let me answer the big ones before somebody posts them in the comments.
"Trump's name is in the Epstein files. You're defending a pe*****le, and that makes you an enabler." I knew this one was coming, so let me be as straight as I know how. I do not defend anyone who harms a child. Not a Democrat, not a Republican, not a billionaire, not a president. If any person, Donald Trump included, were ever proven to have abused a child, I'd want him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That's not a talking point. I have four granddaughters.
But being named in a file, photographed at a party, or accused is not the same thing as being proven guilty. Powerful people from both parties crossed paths with Epstein. Donald Trump has never been charged with any crime involving a child. He has denied any wrongdoing, and he signed the law that forced the Epstein files to be released. In America we don't convict people by headline or by meme, and that principle protects your family just as much as it protects mine.
As for calling me an "enabler" because of how I vote, I'm voting on the border, the economy, the unborn, and the freedom to worship. The people who enabled Epstein were the ones who knew and looked the other way for years. If the evidence proves something against anyone, prosecute them. If it doesn't, stop using the worst crime imaginable to smear millions of decent people. Truth matters more than tribe, on both sides.
"Trump isn't a godly man." I'm not voting for a pastor. I'm voting for policies. God has always worked through imperfect people. David was an adulterer. Peter denied Christ three times. God even used Cyrus, a pagan king, to send His people home. The question isn't whether a candidate is perfect. It's which direction his policies will take this country, and who will protect the unborn, the family, and the freedom to worship.
"Groceries and rent still cost too much, and Trump's in charge." You're right that affordability is a real problem, and I see it every tax season in the faces of working families. But prices didn't get this way overnight. Years of reckless spending, trillions in borrowed money, and regulations that drove up the cost of energy, farming, and building homes under Democrat leadership pushed costs up, and that kind of damage doesn't unwind in a year or two. Trump will get the blame because his name is on the door now. That's politics. But if your neighbor ran up the credit card for years, you don't blame the man who moved in afterward for the bill. Judge each side by the direction it's taking us, not by who happened to be holding the receipt.
"Jesus said to feed the hungry and care for the least of these." He sure did, in Matthew 25. And read who He was talking to. He said you fed me, you clothed me, you visited me. He was speaking to His followers, not handing the job off to Washington. Jesus never told anyone to vote for somebody else to take their neighbor's money and call it charity. He told us to do it ourselves, with our own hands and our own wallets. That's exactly what happens every week in the churches, food pantries, and ministries across rural Georgia, run mostly by the people being called heartless.
"The Bible says to welcome the stranger." It does, in Leviticus 19, and we do. But that same Old Testament Israel had borders, cities had walls, and Nehemiah rebuilt Jerusalem's wall as an act of faithfulness. Romans 13 says government is God's servant to keep order and punish wrongdoing. Welcoming the stranger is a call to personal kindness. It was never a command for a nation to stop enforcing its laws. You can love the immigrant and still lock the front door.
"Jesus never said a word about abortion." He never said a word about child abuse either, but no one believes He was okay with it. Jesus affirmed "You shall not murder." He affirmed that God made us male and female. And He said whoever causes a little one to stumble would be better off with a millstone around his neck. Jesus didn't need to list every sin by name for us to know where He stood on the innocent.
"Judge not, lest ye be judged." That's the most quoted and least read verse in the Bible. Matthew 7 warns against hypocritical judgment. A few verses later Jesus tells us to recognize false prophets by their fruit, and in John 7:24 He says to "judge with righteous judgment." The Jesus of the Bible loves sinners, but He also says "go and sin no more." A Jesus who never commands, never corrects, and never says no isn't the Jesus of Scripture. Calling sin what God calls sin isn't hate. It's honesty.
"What about separation of church and state?" Those words aren't in the Constitution. They come from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to assure a group of Baptists that the government would stay out of their church, not to tell Christians to leave their faith at home. Every person who votes brings their values into the booth. Ours just happen to come from Scripture.
Two Different Ways of Seeing the World
Here's the honest difference between us and today's Democrat Party, as plainly as I can put it.
They often judge an idea by how compassionate it sounds. We judge it by what it produces.
They believe each person can define his own truth. We believe truth is fixed, and reality eventually wins.
They tend to see the world as oppressors and victims. We believe people have free will, and every one of us must answer for our choices. That's not cruelty. It's dignity. Telling someone they're powerless is the unkindest thing you can do.
They believe government is the answer. We've seen that government is often the problem.
They believe morality changes with the culture. We believe right and wrong come from God.
Isaiah 5:20 says, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness."
That verse ought to make every one of us uncomfortable, because our culture has gotten very good at changing the names of things. Abortion becomes healthcare. Men in women's spaces becomes inclusion. Keeping sexual ideology away from little children becomes hate. Biblical marriage becomes bigotry. Standing on Scripture becomes extremism. Strength gets called toxic, discipline gets called cruel, and patriotism gets called extreme.
Changing the label doesn't change the truth.
And look at the results. When the border was wide open, we were told it was secure. When years of runaway spending sent the cost of living through the roof, we were told it was temporary, and working families are still paying that bill today. When parents spoke up at school board meetings, they were treated like troublemakers. When police were vilified, crime rose, and it was working families in rough neighborhoods who paid the price, not the politicians who said it.
Meanwhile, the very things that hold people together have been pushed aside: faith, marriage, fatherhood, motherhood, discipline, hard work, and self-control. And we're living with what's left in their place: broken homes, fatherless children, addiction, loneliness, and a generation more anxious than any before it.
Feelings are real, and they matter. But feelings don't pay your light bill. Slogans don't make your street safer. And good intentions don't protect an unborn child. Truth does. Character does.
I'm Not Telling You the Party Is Perfect
It isn't. Not every Republican is a Christian, and no political party ever saved a soul. Jesus Christ saves people. Political parties don't.
But Christians still vote, and that vote is a choice between competing values and directions for this country. If the Bible really is the Word of God, it should be the measuring stick, not something we pull out on Sunday morning and put back on the shelf before Election Day.
So ask yourself honestly:
Which party is fighting harder to protect unborn children?
Which party is defending the reality of male and female?
Which party is standing up for biblical marriage?
Which party is standing up for parents raising their own children?
Which party talks more about work, responsibility, and family?
Which party is willing to defend Christianity publicly instead of treating it like something to be ashamed of?
If you keep having to twist the Bible to make it agree with your politics, maybe it's not the Bible that needs changing.
Maybe your politics do.
So Here's My Ask
I'm not asking you to agree with everything I believe. I'm not even asking you to like Donald Trump. I'm asking you to do one thing before you step into that voting booth.
Don't vote because your parents voted that way. Don't vote because your friends do. Don't vote because some politician made you angry, scared, or promised you something.
Open your Bible.
Read it.
Believe it.
Then vote like you believe it.
If you do that honestly, I believe a lot of you will find you have more in common with your MAGA neighbors than you ever imagined.
We're not your enemy. We're the folks who show up with a chainsaw and a casserole after the storm. We pray for you on Sunday whether you vote like us or not. We just love God, love our families, love this country, and want to leave it better for our grandchildren than we found it.
That's what MAGA really means. Not a monster. Just your neighbor.
Choose truth. Choose morality. Choose liberty. 🇺🇸
God bless you, and God bless America.
Dennis W. Futch
Chairman
