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Commentary: What took Christianity Today so long to confront Trump?

Since the 2016 presidential election, I've written and lectured frequently about the death of evangelicalism, how a movement once distinguished for its concern for those Jesus called "the least of these" systematically and determinedly debased itself by aligning with the far-right fringes of the Republican Party. Beginning with Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s, evangelicals turned their backs on their own best traditions of caring for the poor and welcoming the stranger to embrace a series of deeply flawed politicians and policies inimical to the

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