NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK
Why People Of Faith Stick With Trump
by Jonathan S. Tobin
April 24, 2018

…But while Trump’s behavior is often indefensible, it isn’t as simple as that. Like most things in life, politics is a series of choices. Religious Trump supporters are doing the same thing every other group does: weighing the costs and benefits of backing a candidate and making a rational choice that does the most to advance causes they believe are of the greatest importance. The theoretical case for ignoring Trump’s misbehavior was actually made 20 years ago by Nina Burleigh, a liberal journalist and Columbia University Professor of journalism. READ MORE