One of the speakers at the March for Life, Eric Metaxas, is a conservative evangelical talk-show host who wrote a book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor who was detained and executed by the Nazis. During the campaign, he came out as a supporter and defender of Trump. When I spoke with him right after the election, he said he suspected that in time, Trump's opponents “will see he is not the person they feared.”
Backstage at the March for Life on Friday, Metaxas told me he is feeling “tremendously encouraged” by Trump's actions so far, particularly on abortion. By that point, drafts of the president's executive action on immigrants and refugees were already circulating, and we discussed that as well: “When Trump says America first, it doesn't mean cheering for America only,” Metaxas said. In general, he feels that the media has unfairly demonized the president, he said, and “we're going to have to wait and see what he does.” Our conversation, edited for length and clarity, is below.
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