What looks like hypocrisy to the average liberal can look like a redemption arc to others. onesarahjones writes
Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images At the March for Life last Friday, Donald Trump sounded much like a typical Evangelical president. “Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House,” he told a massive audience. “Sadly, the far left is actively working to erase our God-given rights, shut down faith-based charities, ban religious believers from the public square and silence Americans who believe in the sanctity of life.
Trump is the first president to appear in person at the March for Life. Like all Republican commanders-in-chief before him, he had previously delivered the usual rote remarks by proxy or by video link. There is a cynical edge to his history-making decision to change habits. Mere weeks ago, the outgoing editor of Christianity Today called for Trump’s removal from office. The criticism outraged Trump, who prides himself on his high level of Evangelical support.
Republican dealings with the Christian right have always had a transactional quality to them. The effect is far more pronounced under Trump than it was under George W. Bush, who was, if nothing else, a true believer. Trump’s appearance at the march, then, resurrected a familiar conundrum. Why would any devout Christian support a man like Trump? His language is foul; his affairs, plentiful. Asked by Maureen Dowd in 2016 if he’d ever paid for an abortion, the future president demurred.
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