Evangelicals buried by Christian columnist for latching on to Trump's 'freak show'

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner, who writes about politics from a conservative Christian perspective, hammered Donald Trump's evangelical supporters for tossing aside their principles to back his third presidential bid.

Asked by the "Morning Joe" co-hosts to talk about his most recent column, "This Election is Different," where he fretted about the declining "decency" of voters, the columnist took aim at Christians who have embraced Trump's MAGA ethos.

Wehner, a former speechwriter for three different Republican presidents, was asked by co-host Joe Scarborough, "They are voting for a man who said, 'I don't need god to forgive me.' So how do they say, I'm voting for my Christian values, I'm going to vote for a man who every day undermines everything that Jesus said and says that he doesn't need god's forgiveness?"

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"You know, it's a psychological trick that they're playing, they've justified it by turning this race into an existential crisis that the Democrats and progressives are against Americans," he explained.

"So Trump is the only thing that stands between them and catastrophe, but of course, it's the opposite thing," he elaborated. "And I do think what you're getting, the point you're making, Joe, is exactly right. It's been a catastrophic damage that's been done to the Christian witness, because this is a moral freak show."

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