The White House staffer who directed Obama’s faith-based outreach has a theory about why evangelicals flocked to the Trump campaign. Michael Wear tells the Atlantic that Christians just wanted protection in an increasingly hostile environment.

The religious right that browbeat the adulterous Bill Clinton less than a decade ago flocked to Donald Trump regardless of his own vulgar and sordid personal past. More than 80 percent of evangelicals punched their ticket for the president-elect. And Wear isn’t at all surprised.