Evangelicals dismissed Trump’s failings while amplifying Clinton’s comparable ones

Evidence

Many evangelicals themselves claimed to have “held their noses” when they voted for Trump as the lesser of two evils. It is true that concerns about Clinton’s moral character, corruption, and deficiencies on national security had reached a fevered pitch among conservative evangelicals, though it’s worth noting that similar—or significantly more serious—questions about Trump’s character, corruption, and security liabilities were more easily dispatched. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 604

Categorization

• XREF: The asymmetric dispatch of Trump’s flaws is the rhetorical wedge the reader can use to contest the book’s framing.