President Trump's achievements on life, faith and freedom

Keeping his promises from the campaign trail, he banned travel from several majority-Muslim countries in a series of executive orders ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court. He appointed three Supreme Court justices who seemed disposed to overturn Roe v. Wade. He relocated the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and abandoned long-standing US opposition to Israeli settlements on the West Bank - more to appeal to evangelicals than to American Jews.

Uninterested in the substance of the Bush-Obama faith-based initiative, he reversed former President Barack Obama's requirement that government-funded religious social service providers refer to alternative providers clients who requested it.

Trump embraced religious conservatives' maximalist religious liberty campaign, allowing employers with religious or moral objections to be exempt from the Affordable Care Act's mandate to provide women with contraceptive services. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he demanded that governors cease restricting in-person religious services.

To be fair, these actions were not designed solely for evangelicals. The anti-abortion and religious liberty measures also had a specifically Catholic audience in mind. Lest they miss the point, Trump visited the St. John Paul II Shrine in Washington one day after hefting the Bible in front of St. John's Episcopal. Trump's unstinting appeal to white conservative Christians created a degree of religious enthusiasm that was unprecedented in American political history, as suggested by the display of Christian symbols and prayer outside the Capitol on January 6.

But in the end, it wasn't enough.

According to this year's problematic exit polling, his support among "white evangelicals" dropped to 76%, (CNN Politics) even as their proportion of the total vote rose from 26% to 28%.

At best, Trump's pro-Christian presidency at most enabled white conservative Christians to hold their own in the biggest election turnout in a century. Its largest impact was on those most removed from the Christian agenda, whose turnout it boosted enormously.

As for Biden, I am predicting he will fail, and voters will quickly realise that they screwed up given that the now President is a consummate and self-promoting nitwit - a view even held by some Democrats. This is not a 'dire prediction' because the USA will recover from Joe Biden's more generalised failure as a president, but it could be quite a painful process for the USA to get back on the political track they had become very comfortable with.

The reason Mr. Biden will fail so soon is that many more millions who voted for him will realise - and quickly - that they made a mistake – a political mea culpa. In some ways, it will be a similar reaction than was to the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976, when many of his voters quickly realised, they had screwed up.

As for Mr Biden's sanctimonious hypocrisy to call for 'unity' we should at least refer to biblical guidance. Paul's word to the conflicted Corinthian congregation is God's word to us today: "I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment" (1 Corinthians 1:10).

When we have "the same mind and the same judgment," we can heal our divisions and face our future with hope. Let us pray and hope Americans work to this end for the glory of our Lord not for the glory of Mr Biden.