Evangelicals delighted w/Trump

That's my perception of how they think.

I always feel like that whole WWJD thing just really has merit, whether you're a Christian or not. At the end of the day, whether you believe in His divinity or not, He was a good person and a good role model.

Our political "Christians" sure don't seem to meet that mark. 

I am a practicing Protestant Christian in an Evangelical tradition. I used to consider myself Politically Conservative. Now, I guess Libertarian is the closest in accuracy, but I'm almost a political agnostic.

I loudly denounce Trump to both my liberal and my conservative friends. I didn't vote for him and have never defended him.

So I can't speak as a first hand Trump supporter, but I think I have enough first hand knowledge of the other parts of the equation to *guess* what the mindset is.

I was a teenager during the Clinton years. I think a sex scandal in the White House was a defining moment for the modern religious conservative in political activism. Focus on the Family and other conservative groups really started leaning in to "us versus them." The conservatives were the US and everyone else was a THEM. They had us convinced that liberal policies were sending America to Hell in a Handbasket, and that every new adoption of a liberal policy was an attack on "US" (the religious conservatives).

Obama, in their eyes, was the liberal darling who was going to damn us all. They saw his liberal choices as an attack on them, their beliefs, and even their definition of what America represents.

So now Trump comes along, and he acts like an "US." He's not pursuing liberal policies, judges, or leaders. Their conservative status quo is safe. In my understanding, it's less about what he IS doing, and more about what he's NOT doing. And support of him is really just support of themselves. When you believe the government has been out to get you and your values for the last 8 years, you feel relieved that someone isn't waging those same attacks (even if he's waging other, worse ones). I've never heard anyone I know who voted for him argue from a position that he was the most skilled or that his character is good. I only hear, "well at least he's not..."

That's my perception of how they think.

I left working in politics for two reasons. One was that Christians seemed more concerned with making Republicans than they were with making disciples.

Christians do believe that people are in leadership of nations because God allowed it. But where some think Trump is a gift to our nation, I believe he's a judgment.

ETA: In case it's not abundantly clear, I don't endorse this way of thinking.  But it's my best attempt at an explanation.

I lived literally down the street from Focus on the Family for 4 years and found them to be evil that poisoned Colorado Springs: James Dobson is a poster child for everything that Jesus was against.  Dobson was besties with Haggard, until the Haggard’s gay sex scandal became open knowledge.  

I came to hate evangelical Christianity while living in Colorado Springs and had to explain on more than one occasion to my grocery bag boys - whose families belonged to FoF, why I was Jewish and not afraid of going to hell (at the time I wore a Star of David necklace) - in addition to seeing what FoF did to influence the cadets at the Air Force Academy.  There was a lot of money spent and activities aimed at roping USAFA cadets into the FoF fold.  It was calculated and anything but Christ-like.