Pat Kahnke is the author of A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (2024) and MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience (2020). He was an evangelical church planter and pastor for twenty years before retiring from church ministry in 2016. A lifelong conservative Republican until the party left him in 2016. Now a political independent, he has written off the Republican party until it completes 40 years in the wilderness for its capitulation to the MAGA movement. Channel contains political and social commentary related to issues at the intersection of culture, faith, and politics. Contact Pat Kahnke at culturefaithandpolitics@gmail.com