Thursday night, Christianity Today, long known as the “flagship” magazine of American evangelicalism, broke the internet with an editorial arguing for the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump from office. The piece, penned by the magazine’s outgoing editor, Mark Galli, implored evangelicals to consider the “unambiguous facts” of the impeachment case against the president, maintaining his actions not only violated the Constitution, but were also “profoundly immoral.” …
While many conservative evangelicals respect Christianity Today, it is read by a small slice of them, and is unlikely to make any significant dent in the president’s remarkable popularity. As even Mr. Galli conceded to The Atlantic’s Emma Green, “We speak for moderate, center-right, and center-left evangelicals. The far right — they don’t read us.”
The “far right” to which Mr. Galli referred is actually the dominant force in American evangelicalism, and it is stubbornly in Mr. Trump’s corner. CONT.
Sarah Posner (Type Investigations), New York Times