Nominal evangelicals for Trump

It’s Super Tuesday, and the many conservatives who are just as appalled by Donald Trump as liberals are have fear in their hearts. Can anything stop him?

Almost half of today’s Republican voters self-identify as evangelical Christians. But as we’ve seen in South Carolina and in polling around the country, this is hardly a guarantee that they won’t vote for a…well, I won’t detail the reasons Trump makes an unlikely evangelical champion. You can find such snarky little serial lists in any of the dozens of articles contemplating what on earth could be going on here. Evangelical leaders are mostly opposing Trump in no uncertain terms. How can this guy be winning votes from their constituents?

Over the last several months, people have offered quite a few reasons: