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'Evangelicals' is such a huge heterogeneous group that I dislike when people say 'Evangelicals do X' or whatever. Partly because I happen to be a member of a denomination that had the misfortune to pick 'Evangelical' as part of their name 30 years ago, but we're not anything like what most people think of when they hear that term. Damn media.
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Yeah, it seems like it's become a convenient word that means nothing and can be assigned to anything negative. Are you a Christian who agrees with me? You're cool. Oh, you don't? Evangelical, coincidentally the same label I assign to people who blow up abortion clinics. That's who I can treat you as now.
Also, I've found that (In my social circles) the same people who support Trump now also supported Bush, if a bit less rabidly. I attribute this to their reasoning of "I support anything not associated directly with liberalism/the Democrats" and also that Trump deliberately whips as many people as possible into a frothing rage during his regular breakfast routine.
I've also found that there's some desperate reverse justification in my Christian circles in regards to Trump, in that they A: Really want to support conservatism, and B: Right now that means supporting Trump then C: They
need their current leader to be a Christian to justify their support to themselves. Hence, there's a huge rush of after-the-fact "Look, Trump is obviously religious, he just wants to do the Christian thing, here's a jpg of him and a church nearby, so if you don't support Trump you must hate Jesus".
The man is obviously about as much of a Christian as a ham sandwich is Jewish. I tell you hwat, the majority of my family is Christian and also firmly Democrat, and they are not fooled for a second.