Evangelicals and Trump: A Defense of Their Support
In that vein  this Jew would like to defend  Evangelicals and other Christians who support President Donald Trump .  They  are regularly attacked as religious hypocrites who give Christianity in general  and Evangelical Christianity in particular  a bad name.
Robert P. Jones wrote in USA Today: âWhite Evangelicals . . . are  in many ways  a community grieving its losses. . . . Thinking about the white evangelical/ Trump  alliance as an end-of-life bargain is illuminating. It helps explain  for example  how white evangelical leaders could ignore so many problematic aspects of Trumpâs character.â
Jay Caruso  a Dallas Morning News editorial board member  wrote a column titled âEvangelical Leaders Expose Their Hypocrisy by Playing Palace Guard to  Trump .â
In the Arizona Republic  Jon Gabriel  an Evangelical  wrote a column titled â Evangelicals Are Hypocrites to Support Donald Trump .â In it  he  wrote  âAs an evangelical myself  one of the strangest developments of the  Trump  era has been the abandonment of moral character as a political essential.â
I could give dozens more examples of attacks on Evangelical Christians who support  President Trump .
I believe these attacks are not biblical  moral  or wise. Religious Christians and Jews who support  Trump  understand that the character of a public leader is quite often less important than his policies. This is so obvious that only the naÃ¯ve think otherwise. Character is no predictor of political leadership on behalf of moral causes. I wish it were. Then  in any political contest  we would simply have to determine who the better person is and vote accordingly.
Therefore  I would like to pose some questions to critics of Evangelicals who support  Trump :
1. Former President Jimmy Carter has been married once (virtually all critics of  Trump  note that he is thrice married  as if that were ipso facto a character defect)  and to the best of anyoneâs knowledge  has been faithful to his wife all those years. If you are conservative  religious or secular  would you vote for Jimmy Carter over  Donald Trump ?
2. Do you believe that Hillary Clinton has a finer character than  Donald Trump ? For the record  I believe  his  character is superior to hers. And the choice in the 2016 was between  Trump  and Clinton. A Republican who voted for anyone else (or didnât vote) voted for Clinton.
In that vein  this Jew would like to defend   [TGT]  .   [TGT]   are regularly attacked as religious hypocrites who give Christianity in general  and Evangelical Christianity in particular  a bad name.
Robert P. Jones wrote in USA Today: âWhite Evangelicals . . . are  in many ways  a community grieving its losses. . . . Thinking about the white evangelical/ Trump  alliance as an end-of-life bargain is illuminating. It helps explain  for example  how white evangelical leaders could ignore so many problematic aspects of Trumpâs character.â
Jay Caruso  a Dallas Morning News editorial board member  wrote a column titled âEvangelical Leaders Expose Their Hypocrisy by Playing Palace Guard to  Trump .â
In the Arizona Republic  Jon Gabriel  an Evangelical  wrote a column titled â Evangelicals Are Hypocrites to  [TGT]  .â In it  he  wrote  âAs an evangelical myself  one of the strangest developments of the   [TGT] era has been the abandonment of moral character as a political essential.â
I could give dozens more examples of attacks on Evangelical Christians who support   [TGT]  .
I believe these attacks are not biblical  moral  or wise. Religious Christians and Jews who support   [TGT]   understand that the character of a public leader is quite often less important than his policies. This is so obvious that only the naÃ¯ve think otherwise. Character is no predictor of political leadership on behalf of moral causes. I wish it were. Then  in any political contest  we would simply have to determine who the better person is and vote accordingly.
Therefore  I would like to pose some questions to critics of Evangelicals who support  Trump :
1. Former President Jimmy Carter has been married once (virtually all critics of  Trump  note that he is thrice married  as if that were ipso facto a character defect)  and to the best of anyoneâs knowledge  has been faithful to his wife all those years. If you are conservative  religious or secular  would you vote for Jimmy Carter over   [TGT]  ?
2. Do you believe that Hillary Clinton has a finer character than   [TGT]  ? For the record  I believe  his  character is superior to hers. And the choice in the 2016 was between  Trump  and Clinton. A Republican who voted for anyone else (or didnât vote) voted for Clinton.