In December, readers of the Christian Post received some major news: Politics Editor Napp Nazworth was leaving because he could not go along with the publication’s unquestioning support of President Donald Trump. Nazworth hasn’t changed his view of the Trump/evangelical alliance since then, and in a January 23 article for the conservative anti-Trump website The Bulwark, he asserts that Trump can only have a corrupting effect on the evangelical movement.
“Aligning a religious movement with a political movement is dangerous territory,” Nazworth writes. “Political leaders who believe they were chosen by God for a divine purpose tend toward unreasonableness, which is a bad trait for any type of leader, in any context. But is a particular affront within a government designed to carry out a deliberative form of democracy.”
In the article (which is headlined “Donald Trump, Pastor-in-Chief), Nazworth explains that he left the Christian Post “after the company decided to align itself with the interests of Donald Trump. In an editorial I couldn’t support, authored by Senior Managing Editor John Grano and Executive Editor Richard Land, the Christian Post echoed Trump’s class warfare and conspiratorial language in asserting that opposition to Trump was elitist and part of the ‘Deep State.’” Continue reading.