From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler
During the Trump presidency, I canceled two news feeds that I had subscriptions to because every other story was about Donald Trump. His insulting words, his racist tropes, and his blatant lies grew too much for me to take in – too much for me to take, period. I found Mr. Trump to be so exhausting the final two years of his presidency that I could no longer bear to watch him on television. The very sight of him triggered the pain of my growing up in the Jim Crow South. Even more, I found it frustrating that there were so many whites who were willing to protect him and his loyal supporters. This included Republicans in the Congress, especially those in the Senate, who chose to disregard this pathological lying, who chose to ignore his disregard for the law and for the Constitution.
This was a president who was impeached, not once but twice, and yet this did not seem to matter at all to his core group of loyal supporters. Although impeached, he was not convicted. Mr. Trump could do no wrong in the eyes of those who supported him. Most painful was the fact that many of his supporters included white Christians, both evangelicals and those white Christians who were members of mainline denominations. I wrote this book chiefly because I wanted to say something to the white Church, to my Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in particular. I wanted to speak about my own experience in this predominantly white Church body and how the Church had constantly mistreated, dehumanized, and minimized people of color because it had wedded itself to the heresy of white supremacy.