My colleagues at the Washington Post wondered again this weekend what "evangelicals" see in Trump. The provocative headline "Ordained by God" telegraphs the reporters’ answer but that is simply incorrect. 

First, after a quarter-century of grading law school exams, I can assure you as any fair grader can, there is always a Bell Curve in every distribution. There will certainly be some small percentage of "evangelicals" who believe Trump is "ordained" by God but there are going to be quite a few on the other end who support him even though they don’t believe they share a common faith. That’s just the way it is. The identity politics that has consumed so much of the left and of the elite media just doesn’t control large swaths of America. Many tens of millions of voters don’t vote for the person who is most like him or her but who is most likely to be good for him or her. They vote their perceived self-interest. The former president has been making this sale for a long time, and it’s working.