Randall Balmer gets it right on Evangelicals and Trump

Here:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-balmer-evangelicals-politics-do-not-match-their-faith-20151005-story.html
Quotable:

Regarded by many conservationists as the greatest environmental president ever, Carter also understood nature as God’s creation and worked to protect it. Reagan, on the other hand, appointed James Watt as secretary of the interior; Watt favored development over conservation and was unremittingly hostile to the protection of the environment.
By the 1980 election, evangelicals had seized on abortion as a pretext for abandoning Carter. As governor and as president, however, Carter had worked very hard, within the confines of the law, to reduce the incidence of abortion; Reagan, while governor of California, signed the most liberal abortion bill in the nation. Although he came around to a so-called pro-life position by 1980, Reagan, as even his apologists acknowledge, made no serious attempt to make good on his promise to outlaw abortion.