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Evangelicalism After Trump: Evangelicals should stay in the GOP.

May 11th, 2016 | 8 min read

By Guest Writer

The third post in the series comes from my friend Stephen Wolfe.

Steven Wedgeworth has written a stirring piece declaring that now is the time for Christians to finally escape from the Republican Party. That I was supposed to desire an escape was news to me so I paid attention. Wedgeworth’s argument is largely centered on protecting the “Christian moral witness” that he considers undermined by the Republican Party’s past exploitation of evangelicals. With the rise of evangelical support for Trump—whom he calls both the death of the Republican Party and the death of ethos—inevitably comes the obliteration of any semblance of moral witness Christians might have before the world.

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