Evangelicalism in America Will Not Survive Trump

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.  

Evangelicalism Has a Faulty Theological and Doctrinal Basis

The term "Evangelical" covers a broad variety of denominations, small fellowships of chutherrches, a large number of independent, non-affiliated, non-denominational churches and is actually representative of a wider variety of doctrinal and theological perspectives than one might think, though the label might be inclusive, acceptance within this broad branch of American Christianity is not widespread.  

What defines and distinguishes Evangelicals from mainline Protestants is a doctrine they consider essential to Christian faith and practice.  The Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy and the accompanying literal interpretation of the text of the sixty-six books of the Protestant Bible is what distinguishes  Evangelicals from other Protestants and other Christians.  This doctrine teaches that the Biblical text of the sixty-six canonical books is inspired by God in a way that renders the original manuscripts without error of any kind and infallible in its revelation.  

This belief did not develop in the whole history of the Christian church until the nineteenth century.  Along with other late developing theology, perpetuated by the lack of educated pastors and ministers in the years following the Second Great Awakening, the idea that all parts of the Bible are equally inpsired, and equally authoritative in a literal sense, has diluted the practice of the Christian gospel.  In true Christian theology, Jesus was the incarnation of God, sent for the purpose of revealing God's true nature to humanity, so his words, which include the whole of the Christian gospel, are the ultimate authority for Christian faith and practice and no accurate interpretation of scripture can be considered unless it is filtered through the criterion of Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of all messianic prophecy.