If Donald Trump has called the most important issue facing the World wrongly then where does that leave his Evangelical supporters?

Donald Trump seems committed to a “peace plan” for Ukraine which essentially involves Russia getting to keep much of the territory Putin’s aggression since 2014 has acquired, including Crimea.

Charles Moore writes helpfully here about how this proposal compares and is in fact worse than the appeasement deal that Neville Chamberlain signed with Hitler at Munich.

I think Moore is right to argue that it is worse than Munich. In fact a better, though hypothetical situation would be to imagine a different scenario to the US’ entry into the Second World War.  What if the US at that time had insisted that Europe needed to take responsibility for her own defence, that America’s priority was the threat from Japan and in any case, the war was really Europe’s fault.  Churchill and DeGaulle were responsible and also very difficult to deal with.

This would be at a stage, unlike at Munich where serious bloodshed had happened.  What then if the US had still expected some renumeration such as long term use of British bases and perhaps a share in our coal mining industry. What though if rather than coming in to fight the war on our side, America has demanded that we agreed to a peace deal where Nazi Germany was allowed to retain all the European countries captured?

I understand that there are those who are exercised about how long the war has gone on for. I appreciate that there is a genuine concern about loss of life.  I can see too why Americans might struggle to see what a far off conflict has to do with them.  However in the 1940s and then for you the rest of the 20th Century, America recognised that what happened in Europe did matter to the US.

Now, here is the thing.  I’ve frequently seen American Evangelicals argue that support for Trump is not only justifiable but the only legitimate option because although he may be wrong on lots of things, he is right and on the right side where it matters.  This for example was at the heart of Robert Gagnon ‘s recent disagreement with me and other UK Evangelicals.

Yet, here we are looking at the most significant issue of our day, an issue that Donald Trump has chosen to engage with and Trump has called it completely wrong.  Surely we cannot sweep this aside as a minor concern.  How then are US Evangelicals responding?