Election 2016- Voting Morally

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Michael Gerson’s recent column did a great job of exposing the moral disingenuousness of those Trump supporters who call themselves evangelical Christians.
Their actions reveal them far less Christian than they would like to claim. Donald Trump, a man with the moral certitude of a will-o’-the-wisp, has charmed the Christian right into accepting his multitude of positions on abortion, his overt racism toward Hispanics, his intolerance of religions he doesn’t like, the advocating not only torture but the killing of families of suspected terrorist and his misogyny, as well as the fact that he intends to be an authoritarian ruler. Still, they find him a morally acceptable candidate for the presidency of the United States.
What would it take to dissuade these people from voting for this morally (and four times financially) bankrupt person?

Trump was right when he stated he could murder someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and his supporters wouldn’t care. And he is, for once, telling the truth.
Would any real Christian really approve of such a man? Not in the Bible I read.
And his quote about Hillary Clinton, “She’s been in the public eye for years and years and yet there’s no — there’s nothing out there,” is so Trumpian.  It is a statement devoid of meaning or content, the intent of which is character assassination by negative inference. How can one argue with a statement without meaning? How can anyone accept a statement without content?

The Republicans noted for their intelligence and principles (George Will, Mary Matalin, Michael Gerson, Erik Erikson) are fleeing Trump and even the Republican Party. They recognize that a Trump victory will be the end of the Republican Party, perhaps permanently. And yet, those calling themselves Christian Evangelicals cling blindly to someone who is so obviously malignant to their own self-interest. Unable to come up with a real Republican candidate, they prefer to make a deal with the devil, a Faustian bargain. Has the devil ever lost in that deal?
Jim G.
New Orleans