Presidents picked by God? Get serious

Along with Franklin Graham (“God allowed Trump to win the election to protect this nation”) to Robert Jeffress (Trump’s election was God “giving us another chance”), we can now add Sarah Sanders to the list of various Americans who believe that God wanted Donald Trump to be the next president.

This issue presents certain difficulties. One, if a supreme being picks presidents, how do we explain

James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Warren Harding? Second, do we assume that God was a strong New Dealer because FDR won four terms in office (1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944)?

Lastly, if God continues to decide presidential elections, I hope he or she gives the winner both the electoral and the popular vote. Such a move would no doubt have helped both Al Gore (who had 500,000 more votes than Bush in 2000) and Hillary Clinton (who had 2.9 million more votes than Trump in 2016) recover from their electoral defeats.