Evangelical Christians seem to like Trump for the following reasons:
• He refuses to be "Politically Correct". To most Evangelicals, the term "Political Correctness" means saying nothing if it will hurt someone's feelings, even if what they want to say is their version of "The Truth" (i.e., America is being dragged down into the pits of Hell by abortion, LGBTQ rights, same-sex marriages, pornography, Atheism, et cetera).
• He has promised to protect "Religious Liberty". Evangelicals have felt like they were under attack from the surrounding culture for decades. This is one of those instances that validates the maxim "When You are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression". While America was not founded on Christianity, the Christian culture has permeated the American culture since before this country was founded. Hence, any Christian could feel free to publicly express his or her religion without fear of ridicule or repercussion. Now, with the free public expression of other cultures, religions, and philosophies in America, Christians feel threatened by the competition, and also feel muzzled when their voices (e.g., efforts at conversion) go unheard and ignored. It is not "Religious Liberty" they want, but the freedom to impose their religious beliefs upon others (e.g., to figuratively "Shove Christianity down other people's throats").
• He has appointed strict "Constructionist" judges. Evangelicals believe that President Trump would appoint enough Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade and who would commit to interpreting the Constitution in deference to "Christian Values" rather than legal precedence.
• He claims to put "America First". Mr. Trump's brand of Nationalism harkens back to a time when America was "Great" and led the world in innovation, invention, and military interventionist policies in the global society. Sadly, his brand of Nationalism also inspired a sense of nostalgia when men were in charge of everything -- especially heterosexual white men -- and immigrants, minorities, and women "knew their place" and deferred to their masters. This was a time before the Civil Rights movement and The Pill became firmly embedded in American culture
• Evangelical leaders endorsed him. Evangelicals tend to blindly follow their leaders, and the Evangelical leaders are themselves no exception to this rule -- they tend to believe that no leader rises without G^D allowing that leader to rise, and that G^D's divine appointments to the White House are not partisan; but they seem to forget or ignore that by their own beliefs, Joseph Biden did not get to be the president of the United States without being ordained by G^D.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum!
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