At this point, I would say that it is already past any point of no return, and is headed for a fall. What is known and identified as "Evangelical Christianity" in America will not survive the Trump Presidency. The declines in membership and attendance, and in the number of people who self-identify as "Evangelical" has dropped 25% since Trump first descended the escalator to announce his run in 2016, and it is getting difficult to determine where the lines have been drawn at this point.

The Apostle Jude, in his very short, but straight to the point epistle in the New Testament warned the church about "ungodly" intruders who had slipped into the churches to subvert its message and use it for their own purposes. They were in and among the membership, their deception unidentified, and in a position to influence others with immorality, along with denying the sovereignty of Jesus Christ.

This is what I see happening now, as congregations come under the influence of intruders who are perverting the gospel, because the practice of its principles, which is Christianity itself, does not support their use of religion as a political tool. And while there have been some Evangelical churches who have insulated themselves against this intrustion, and have not allowed it to pervert their preaching and teaching, the fact of the matter is that many churches have been subverted and corrupted, and there are plenty of those ready to step up to do the same in churches that have remained faithful to the Christian gospel.

Blending extremist right wing politics with this white, Christian nationalism isn't Christian. It does not lead to conversion, nor does it lead to the kind of influence, being salt and light as Jesus described it, that Christianity was designed to be. It creates a power and money hungry cult, and it traps people who think they are sincere Christians inside, with no way to escape.

There are Christians in most conservative Evangelical churches who see it for what it is, and who are doing their best to escape it. Evangelicalism has lost over 16 million members of its churches since the 2016 election. However, for the most part, the same gullibility that causes people to fall victim to this intrusion of false doctrine into the church also lends itself to their inability to see Trump as a corrupt, morally bankrupt, mentally imbalanced narcissist who is incapable of being President of the United States.