When Evangelical Trumpism Looks a Lot Like Mental Illness

It makes the absurdity of the movement much easier to forgive

Photo by Kyle Ryan on Unsplash

I was raised by an aunt clinically diagnosed with schizophrenia — a woman I owe my life to. After twenty years of being a hopeless bystander to the ravages of mental illness, words like “crazy,” “insane,” or “lunatic” that easily roll off the tongue in this…