McDermott: Evangelicals Finally Find the One Trump Obscenity They Can’t Abide.
Kevin McDermott
Kevin McDermott is a member of the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board
To the many believers and non-believers alike who can’t figure out why the religious right sticks by a president who so completely embodies each of the Seven Deadly Sins (while inventing a few new ones), we have encouraging news: Some white evangelicals are finally getting fed up with Donald Trump’s behavior.
And which of Trump’s many transgressions against decency is, at last, driving these pious folks to rethink their enthusiasm for this most impious president? Is it his cruelty toward migrant children? His winking embrace of support from white supremacists? His slavish admiration for brutal foreign dictators? His adultery? His prodigious lying? All of the above?
Actually, it’s none of the above. All that stuff is apparently just fine with these self-proclaimed servants of God.
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