Why US evangelicals are still saying ‘Amen’ to Trump
By 
Chris Goswami2023-08-04T13:14:00
He may have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, but Donald Trump continues to attract widespread support among white evangelicals. Chris Goswami explains why
If Donald Trump was still President of the USA, Vladimir Putin might not have invaded Ukraine.
That’s a bitter pill for people like me (who would never vote for Trump) to swallow, but here’s my thinking. Putin is a tyrant and tyrants don’t lose sleep over predictable men like Joe Biden. Biden isn’t going to overreact, Biden won’t “push the button” on nuclear war. But tyrants are very wary of unpredictable, irrational and impulsive men who might do anything. Men like Donald Trump.
My train of thought isn’t bulletproof, but it’s not dissimilar to the logic of many white evangelical Christians in the US. Their view, is whatever Trump’s character failings, he delivers on what they want. To this group, the barrage of charges and indictments against Trump which we’ve seen this week are just background chatter.
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