We have to honestly admit to a large dose of pragmatism on the part of evangelicals voting Trump. The alternative was Hillary, and Christians were willing to overlook 3 marriages, profanity, various forms of unsavory things to avoid another Clinton Obama term.
Turns out his policies have been marvelous. The EPA has been reduced by 1/3, people!
In 2020 the choice will be starker, as the dem nominee will be a neo Stalinist. Trump it is, warts and all.
"Turns out his policies have been marvelous." Overall. The most conservative since Regan. In response to the question "How can Evangelical Christians justify backing Donald Trump" i responded :
Basically because of policy over person, but as well as the person reusing to be intimidated by liberal political correctness (though often that includes dismissing facts as well). Holding to Biblical values and principals, then faced with a choice btwn a largely conservative candidate versus a very liberal one which denigrates them then it is no surprise they would elect this (or any) Republican.
If evangelicals elected Trump as a church pastor over a one of Scriptural integrity then the charge of them being more loyal to the party than the laws of God would be valid.
Or if evangelicals elected Trump over a Reagan, or if Trump was a supporter of foundation immorality which was being foisted upon them, and attacking and punishing them for opposing it, and was a friend of those who denigrate them as homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, misogynist hatters who will not submit to the politically correct censoring of the “Left,” and which works to seduce votes with the demonic victim-entitlement mentality in promoting a welfare state which increases reliance upon a ever-growing regulatory government - meaning if Trump was a a Hillary - then the charge of inconsistency would have a case.
But instead they elected a man to a office of civil government who more than any other electable candidate overall supports their side in most basic moral issues and conception of government, and refuses to be cowed by the conniving tactics of intimidation of anti-Christ social and socialist revolutionaries. In other words, they are willing to overlook the moral failures (real or alleged) and many unChristian aspects of the temperament and character of the civil leader of the country that they are pilgrims in, because his policies usually align with theirs rather than opposing them. It is kind of like choosing brash captain along with a Chief officer of notable integrity - to sail the ship on a corrective course, a ship which has already been sabotaged by enemies and who chart a course toward shipwreck. In the light of all of this Trump is an answered prayer, and yet who needs our prayers.