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In reply to the discussion: Editor of The Christian Post resigns: I can't be an editor for Team Trump [View all]lees1975
(3,845 posts)You have to go a little deeper than the big money, fame-seeking self-appointed "leaders" to find out exactly what's going on. Evangelicalism is a hard place for people to dissent because the churches and leaders are not accountable to a single denomination and once a specific leader, pastor, para-church organization leader gathers a following, they become an almost absolute authority and people tend to equate their word with something prophetic spoken by God himself. They have become so caught up in the power that Trump is throwing their way they are having trouble seeing who he really is and are blind to the reality of what he has done. They exist in a media bubble of conservative media outlets and are blind to reality. But their support for Trump is creating backlash that is causing an awakening of sorts among them that it is costing them when it comes to their main mission and purpose. Over the three years of his presidency, Trump's true character has come out many, many times, nothing worse than in his attempts to cover up the truth about foreign interference in elections. The reality is dawning on many among Evangelicals that supporting Trump is seen as an abandonment of principle and a reliance on "worldly power" instead of on God to accomplish their mission.
Unfortunately, many of them will remain blind to reality, but I think his support among Evangelicals has diminished enough to cost him the 2020 election.