THE REMARKABLE THING ABOUT the Christian Right in 2016 was not its support of Donald Trump in the general election; it was the genuinely stunning transformation of its value system, and even its core standards of personal conduct. For decades, a bedrock principle of the Christian Right was that character mattered and that personal morality and ethics were essential requirements of political leadership. Evangelical leaders were especially insistent on this point during the presidency of Bill Clinton, when they argued vigorously that Clinton’s conduct and perjury disqualified him from the
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