There is a belief among many White evangelical Protestants that Trump was anointed by God to lead this country. It is then fair to ask—why doTrump supporters believe Trump is even a Christian when he is so un-Christ like, a man who is more intimately acquainted with the seven deadly sins than the contents of the Bible? Robert P. Jones, the author of and the CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute suggests:
"It was really the 'Make America Great Again' mantra. I think most of the power of that slogan was in the last word: again. It was hearkening back to a kind of 1950s America, where white Christians and particularly white Anglo-Saxon Protestants were more dominant in the society demographically and culturally."
Of course, Jim Crow laws proliferated back in the 1950s, until they were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And the U.S. Supreme Court did not rule in Brown v. Board of Education that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional until 1954.
Anthea Butler, chair of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania asked, "Why is it that evangelicals have not come to grips with the racism that's been inherent in their movement?" she asked National Catholic Reporter. "And why [does] everybody else let them pretend that they're really moral people when this is about power, not morality?”
Unfortunately when someone like Trump acquires power, that person too often believes no ethics or laws apply to him. And Trump’s MAGA followers meekly support him no matter what he says or does.