It's not just Trump: Midterms show the religious right is an albatross around the GOP's neck

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3. The irony of the whole issue is that Trump isn't even Christian by their definition.

He openly denies having the kind of experience conservative Evangelicals claim is necessary to conversion. His "Turning Point" seminars include attempts at changing or getting Christians to ignore salient points of Christian faith and practice to be more "worldly."

It is really playing havoc within the Evangelical circles. People are leaving churches where extremist politics have infiltrated the congregation and influenced the preaching and teaching. Pastors and church leaders, growing weary of trying to keep the peace in contentious congregations where militant far right extremists have been radicalized and demand their church preach politics, are retiring and leaving in droves, literally, as are many of the members of the churches who see things realistically.