I want to go on record as being deeply and sincerely grateful to Mark Galli and Christianity Today.  At long last a noteworthy evangelical Christian, prominent enough to make his voice heard on a broad scale, has found the courage to tell the truth about Donald Trump.  This is the victory I’ve been waiting for. 

I don’t care that Donald Trump is President.  I don’t care what his politics are.  I do, however, care very much when self-styled Christians, for purely political reasons, sully the name of God by associating it with such a vile and despicable human being.   

Let me repeat what I said four years ago – before Stormy Daniels, before Charlottesville, before Mueller, before the “phone call,” and before impeachment.  I cannot for the life of me understand how self-proclaimed followers of Jesus can get behind a person of this description:  a coarse, crude, crass, cruel, unfeeling, greedy, materialistic, power-hungry, egotistical megalomaniac; a loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed, arrogant, self-aggrandizing, blustering, boasting, bullying braggart; a willfully ignorant, cheerfully unlettered, anti-intellectual boor; a philanderer, an adulterer, and a debauchee; a person who thinks public discourse consists in calling other people names.  This is the exact opposite of the spirit and character of Christ.

This man calls himself a “winner” and says that he “can’t stand losers.”  Four years ago he told us that “we were going to start winning so much that we’d get sick and tired of winning.”  On that score, at least, he was right.  If he’s a “winner,” I’m happy to count myself a loser.  For my part, I’ll willingly cast my lot with the Greatest Loser of all Time:  the One who, though He existed in the form of God, despised the devil’s offer of political power, died a criminal’s death, and gave up everything for my sake.