Here’s why Trump’s reality-TV gimmicks and xenophobic rhetoric in his SOTU speech appeals to evangelicals – Raw Story

Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” editorial, there’s been a great deal of buzz in the pundit class over whether Trump, after a highly publicized impeachment trial, needs to be concerned with possible defections in his white evangelical base. From an analytical standpoint, the buzz is mere noise, horse race politics nonsense from people who don’t understand that most white evangelicals have long since come to regard CT as “too liberal.” As John Stoehr observed on RD back in December, “It’s not going to change much.” ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/heres-why-trumps-reality-tv-gimmicks-and-xenophobic-rhetoric-in-his-sotu-speech-appeals-to-evangelicals/