If pundits paid attention to evangelicals beyond their stances on moral values the popularity of Donald Trump among them might not be quite so inexplicable.
Joining the chorus of voices from all over the political and religious maps, Peter Wehner, former deputy director of speechwriting for President George W. Bush calls the evangelical embrace of Trump discordant. He repeats another common refrain when he attributes this evangelical support to a “narrative of injury” that “is leading them to look to scapegoats to explain their growing impotence.” In effect, Wehner blames Trump’s followers for being manipulated by a “compulsive and unrepentant liar.”
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