The Evangelical affinity for Trump baffles me. As a Christian, I don’t think I’m even at liberty to support Trump (so far as supporting means anything more than hoping he does well for the sake of the country). I get people who felt cornered into voting for him, but that’s as far as I can get before I start scratching my head. I agree with some of what Trump has tried to do, and even a lot of what he has said, but the guy is still like fingernails on a chalkboard when he starts mouthing off and treating people like dogs. It’s awful. I honestly don’t buy the Russian collusion nonsense, but he ought to get the hook just for his behavior.

Basically, the GOP would cast Kasich as the spoiler who would hand the White House to the Democrats on a platter, and a large majority of the evangelicals would fall into line behind Trump. As I said, win at all costs.

If there is anything about the last two years that’s clear about the national GOP, it’s that this is Trump’s party now.

I just heard a couple of evangelicals on the radio tiptoeing around Trump’s immigration policy, couching their reservations about his anti-asylum stance and its deleterious effect Christians seeking refuge in the USA as carefully as they could while praising his actions on the southern border. No way would they be as careful with their words if they thought their listeners weren’t firmly in the Donald Trump camp.

Sorry, I missed the part about Sanders.

I don’t think Trump voters are quite so homogenous as that. Undoubtedly, however, there is a racist demographic – perhaps a sizable one – that were enraged during the Obama years and are now emboldened under Trump. I think the most pernicious may be those who deny there is a racist problem at all, that this is “in the past” and so feel unencumbered by the pangs of conscience they would normally feel obliged to obey.

Edit: This reply to AHH was made before the additional bit was added to that comment.

Yes, it does sometimes appear that some people’s ‘pro-life’ position extends only as far as birth!