Giving Doubt benefits comes with its doubt-costs.
A new article in the Independent lists ten reasons why evangelical voters should rethink their support for the Trump/GOP regime.
The over/under on saving Trump (and/or his soul) now is in the range of imaginary numbers.
For many perhaps it was always about the possibility of eventually sacrificing Trump in order to place Pence in power.
Praying for the President would be apt the first Sunday of Lent. He is beset by challenges. So is the country as it mourns yet one more school shooting, this time in South Florida. But evangelical Christians in particular also face a time of reckoning as they populate the pews. How much longer can they support Donald Trump and face themselves in the mirror?
So far the religious revolt has not come.
Asked recently how he reconciles his political support for Trump with his faith, notably in the light of reports of an affair 10 years ago between him and a porn actress, Jerry Falwell Jr (president of Liberty University – a Christian research institution) sort of shrugged.
“We certainly don’t hold him up as the pastor of this nation and he is not,” he said. “We just have to give the man the benefit of the doubt.”
But the bargain evangelicals entered into – turn a blind eye to all else Trump does so long as he defends their rights as Christians against the incoming tide of progressivism – may not be immutable. The Pew Research Center found that support for Trump among white evangelical Protestants tumbled from 78 to 61 per cent between February and December last year.
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