Why Didn't Evangelicals "See Him Coming"?: Donald J. Trump's Deception and Dismantling of American Democracy - Hardcover

by Paul A. Pomerville (Author)

Why Didn't Evangelicals "See Him Coming"? is a hard-hitting, clear-eyed account of how American society, the political establishment, and the rule of law reacted to a sociopath president. After Donald Trump left office, Americans didn't "see him going" either. Trump came and went, yet millions of Americans were "clueless" about what happened because of his "gaslighting tornado." An evangelical Christian author explains why Bible-believing, church-going, Jesus-talking, America-loving evangelicals, along with other Americans, listened to, were enamored by, and elected an immoral sociopath. An unlikely combination of viewpoints--psychology, law, and biblical theology--provide a surprising, coherent picture of how Donald Trump deceived and inflicted devastation on democracy. His uncanny influence is chronicled by media reporting during his four years in office and afterwards in a "shadow presidency" at Mar-a-Lago. If Trump succeeded in anything, it was deceit. Psychologists rightly attribute this to his "gaslighting"; biblical theology probes deeper, to his corrupt human nature. An FBI search warrant at Mar-a-Lago revealed the inevitable truth: Donald Trump was a thief and traitor from the beginning; the law finally caught up with a long overdue, unaccountable serial criminal for crimes that America would not tolerate.

Author Biography

Paul A. Pomerville has a PhD in intercultural studies from the School of World Mission at Fuller Seminary. He served as a missionary to Asia and Europe, graduate professor, and department chair of Christian missions and cross-cultural communications at the Assemblies of God Seminary. He was a police officer with the Seattle Police Department, trained police officers across the United States, as well as in Bosnia-Herzegovina and East Timor, serving as Assistant Police Commissioner with the United Nations police. He now lives in Bali.