Donald Trump has exposed us all.
Although it is particularly trying at this moment, I am still trying to identify as an evangelical. So I am very saddened (though far from shocked) that so many evangelicals are rallying around Donald Trump. For years, evangelicalism has become far too comfortable with American imperialism, racism, and fundamentalism, and in Trump the chickens are coming home to roost. I lament it. It sickens me. I will campaign against him. But this side of the story has been well documented so I won’t spend any further time on it here. Because there is another, equally fascinating, side to this story.
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