The last temptation of Donald Trump: How he lured evangelicals to follow Satan

No, they believe that Trump had a special purpose and a special calling, and that this election defeat is nothing less than a manifestation of a Satanic effort to disrupt God’s plan for this nation. They were not “holding their nose” to support him. They were deeply, spiritually, and personally invested in his political success.

In fact there is nothing inevitable about the evangelical church’s alliance with the political right. Former left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was able to fashion an alliance with evangelical churches.1 His vice-president, José Alencar, himself converted to the evangelical church towards the end of his life. But from 2009 onwards, the a