believers, who he easily convinced were assailed on every side by a dangerous and diverse horde of quickly encroaching predators. In the past few years, this swift, grand march toward national “greatness” has been noticeably accompanied by a collective move away from goodness, by a hostility to outsiders and a startling lack of compassion for hurting and vulnerable people. This all underscores the painful truth: good wasn’t part of the plan from the beginning. Sadder still, many of Trump’s evangelical supporters have amened all this bitter, divisive malevolence while still simultaneously
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