Trump 2.0: Understanding why people support him

Many British Christians are terrified of any association with Trump-supporting American Evangelicals.

I remember reading an article recently which mentioned an English congregation who had gone as far as removing the word ‘evangelical’ from their name to avoid giving the impression the church was too closely related to those west of the Atlantic. There are even some for whom this fear of association descends into an antipathy bordering on disgust.

Trump is deeply unpopular in Britain, and it is felt that to so passionately support a man of such objectionable character, American Evangelicals must be similarly bad, and all their distinctives are regarded as suspect. But this is unfair, and merely demonstrates ignorance of the situation in the States.