Jesus and John Wayne Among the Deplorables

Evangelicalism has lost its way. It's a popular message on the Left in the post-Trump era. The Left never liked Evangelicals to begin with -- too conservative, too anti-gay, too public in their objections to the prevailing secular creeds they would say -- but Trump, whom Evangelicals supported in droves, gave their critics a new charge to level at them: hypocrisy. These high and mighty moralizers, the Left said, were willing to abandon any principle in pursuit of political power. They had no right to preach to others values they would not practice.