Grazing In ‘Political Dumpsters’: Why Gerson’s Attack On Trump Evangelicals Is All Wrong
Attendees use smartphones to take photographs and video footage during a rally with U.S. President Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S., on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Photographer: Anthony Lanzilote/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Opinion

Grazing In ‘Political Dumpsters’: Why Gerson’s Attack On Trump Evangelicals Is All Wrong

Carrie Sheffield

Michael Gerson, former George W. Bush speechwriter and angry Never Trumper, penned a viral op-ed for the Washington Post wrongly labeling white evangelical Christian supporters of Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda as anti-Christian.

The essay was the most popular piece on the Post’s website for days, setting hearts aflutter of leftists who believe Christianity is a mere sociological construct and the Bible a mythology. But Gerson’s dishonest piece is really nothing new, simply a regurgitation of the same Beltway screeds and talking points we’ve witnessed since Trump’s 2015 escalator moment. Gerson’s 4,300 words are snarky, judgmental, and myopic.

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