The stereotypes often associated with evangelicals in the press aren’t entirely fiction: “It’s as if [the media] had a gun, and we gave them the bullets,” Claiborne wrote. The roughly 62 million Americans who fit under the umbrella of “evangelical” are actually deeply fractured along theological, racial, and political lines. These divisions were around well before Trump, but the current political environment certainly hasn’t eased them. “Evangelicals on the left and right are utterly embarrassed about one another,” wrote Galli. “Each wants to disassociate itself from the other because of attitudes about the sitting president.”