I also have found Grudem to be respectable in his Systematic Theology, but I'm disappointed in this article.
In summary, Grudem's points are:
- Trump's not really that bad, is he? His sins, even though he wears them proudly, shouldn't be offensive to Christians.
- Trump is the lesser of two evils. You don't want Hillary to win, do you? (Put another, even-more-cliched way, "not voting is the same as voting for Hillary" -- which is false, if I was never going to vote for Trump in the first place).
- Christianity means doing what's best for America (and Trump is what's best for America).
I disagree with these premises; I do think the sins that Trump wears not just unrepentantly, but proudly, should be offensive to Christians, and should be more offensive to Grudem than they are; he minimizes outright insults that Trump has doubled-down on as "careless remarks" rather than the more Biblical "out of overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks" (as Jesus said in Luke 6).
Yes, Trump is egotistical. That fault can