text: They are more desperate than "stupid." What they wish would happen (a social and spiritual reawakening -- according to their particular scriptural  tradition and faith), isn't going to be. So they are forlorn,  desponding. They are also experiencing losses. According to the WALL STREET JOURNAL last week, the Southern Baptist Convention (the largest evangelical community), is slipping in numbers. It has dropped a couple of percentage points. 
  
  Most Evangelicals voted for Trump because they believed he was the candidate closest, most attuned to their biblical agenda, their church mission, especially regarding gay marriage, abortion, and other issues. No other candidate was so "evangelical." So they voted for Trump believing a thing or two must happen because he said it would happen when he got into the White House. So far, he has appointed a conservative to the Supreme Court and they are hopeful he will do more to bring the country nearer and nearer to their moral aim.