Guns, God & Roy fans forget what their good book says

superrich and paying off the Pharisees of the Christian right and the NRA by stacking the judiciary with a load of hacks, kooks and unqualified zealots.

Their job is to work in a secular government, but as we’ve seen with other appointments, like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, qualifications don’t matter to Trump. Only patronage and ideology.

Flying under the radar is the true believer, Mike Pence. He’s not insane like Trump, but turning the U.S. into the theocratic Gilead from “The Handmaid’s Tale” would suit him just fine. As much as Trump needs to be impeached, the remedy might actually be worse than the disease.

In 2011, a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found only 30% of white evangelicals believed “an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.” By 2016, that number had risen to 72%.

Clearly the majority of evangelicals have moved to a Machiavellian endsjustify-the-means approach to politics that seems to violate their own core beliefs.

Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are sacrificing Al Franken, who apologized for his indiscretions but is required to fall on his sword in the name of moral purity that doesn’t remotely exist on the other side.

There is a false equivalence out there, and the evangelical right is winning in the name of a Jesus that they alone create.