From the Manhattan Elite to MAGA Populism

On May 1, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new national Religious Liberty Commission in the US. Eric Metaxas is serving on it. He was not present in the Rose Garden for the signing of the executive order but expressed his appreciation to Trump on Instagram.  

Metaxas, an author, speaker, and host of a daily radio program, was an early evangelical supporter of Trump. In October 2016, he published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal to convince his fellow Christians that Trump, though “odious,” deserved the votes of evangelicals because Hillary Clinton was corrupt and could not be trusted to protect religious liberty or the unborn. “Not to vote is to vote,” Metaxas wrote. “God will not hold us guiltless.”