Journalists like Nate Cohn from the New York Times have documented how Mormons are overwhelmingly against GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.Why Trump is going to get annihilated in Utah pic.twitter.com/Z9oS5KGK6u— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) March 18, 2016Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol joked on Twitter that if Trump gets the nomination and conservatives opt for an alternative candidate, “The name of the third party: The Latter-Day Republicans.” That’s a nod to the official Mormon Church’s name, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The name of the third party: The Latter-Day Republicans. https://t.co/BeMhz35dhj— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 20, 2016 My fellow Brigham Young University (the Mormon college) journalism grad McKay Coppins has a great piece at BuzzFeed about what’s driving this trend, including Trump’s persecution of a religious minority (e.g. Muslims), a fact that doesn’t sit well well with Mormons, another religious minority hounded since the Church began in 1830. Some Americans don’t realize Mormons headquartered in Utah because they were driven by haters to a desert wasteland that wasn’t even part of the mainland States in the 1840s. There’s also Trump’s inaccurate, negative depiction of immigrants, which doesn’t sit well with the immigrant-friendly Mormon Church, a body with more international members than domestic. Trump’s verbal abuse of women, racial minorities and others…
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