PositiveThe New York Times Book Review[Howe\'s] book comes [close] to an explanation...Howe was a conservative activist who went through a change of heart during the 2016 primaries ... he says, the conservative reaction during the Obama administration was to hit back twice as hard. In his view, long before Trump appeared on the scene, a \'toxic mixture of resentment and desire for revenge … spawned the Trump evangelical movement.\' Trump then successfully courted evangelicals by promising to give them power and to fight back on their behalf. Today Howe says that Trump did get things done for evangelicals, like nominating justices opposed to abortion, but he sees in the president “untold chasms of depravity.” And he accuses Trump of pulling many evangelicals into \'a vortex of moral ambiguity and relativism,\' surrendering their moral voice in the public sphere for a bit of worldly influence.
