I think you're missing the point, Jody. Larry does not purport to be an objective reporter. He is offering us his opinions and analysis of what he sees as ominous trends in cultural values that the recent election might reflect. I think he is suggesting that anti-W.O. fervor may flow from the same reactionary forces. 

I think that's nonsense. Despite my very low opinion of Trump as a person, I see his election as quite encouraging for those who seek an end to top-down big church control; those who are tired of having big church moral values judgmentally imposed on them by elitist bien pensants; those who are tired of an unaccountable church thinking it has the right to tax First World Conferences in order to grow and sustain Third World constituencies that will keep the leaders and their ideas in power. 

I've never quite understood the dichotomy between liberal Adventists' free market, small government ideals for the church and their opposite approach to politics.