How the Right Gets Christians to Feel Good About Their Faustian Bargain

In this article titled "Joe Biden Says Christians Can't Support Trump, But He Supports Abortions Up To Birth" (found on the pro-life news website LifeNews.com), we see the numerous rhetorical fallacies with which the political right has snowed their evangelical Christian base to get them to sell their souls to Donald J. Trump.  Let us count the ways:

1. The title embraces a false equivalency right off the bat.  It equates the entirety of Trump's moral turpitude with a single political/moral issue of Biden's.  Now, I will grant that that single issue is a big one, especially for the evangelical Christian; however, to put that one issue on one side of the proverbial scales to balance it with literally everything Trump has ever said and done as both a private citizen and a political leader is simply absurd.  They are not the same and should not be treated as such.
2. Second, also in the title, the author uses an equivocating technique; that is, s/he uses the phrase "supports abortions up to birth" in order to provoke and mislead.  (By the way, nowhere in the article does the author ever broach the subject as to what that phrase legally means; in fact, s/he never comes back to it at all.)  So we all know, the standard Democratic stance on abortions is that the law should allow abortions after 24 weeks IF the mother's health is directly at risk or IF there is an "absence of fetal viability."  Moreover, no Democrat, including Joe Biden, desires "unrestricted abortion up through the normal term of pregnancy"; however, that is exactly what the title of the article wants the reader to believe.  Again, I understand that this is a touchy subject for many, but that is exactly the reason all of the facts should be given clearly, something that this article's author consciously has no intention of doing.
3. Next, starting in the title and continuing through the brief article, there is an excellent example of "whataboutism"; meaning, the author deflects the real issue at hand away from his/her candidate in order to debase another candidate. Now, I will note that the author does, ever-so-briefly (and all the way down in the 10th paragraph out of the 11-paragraph article), note that Trump is "far from perfect," but that is literally everything that is mentioned in the article about Trump's thorough immorality.  That part, which was exactly Biden's entire point, is simply ignored in order to say, "Oh yeah?  What about Biden and abortion?!"  So rather than addressing the fact that Biden is completely correct in stating that Christians "made a Faustian bargain" in supporting the spiritually corrupt Trump, the author deflects the issue away from the inarguable.  
4. Finally (but probably not finally), throughout the entirety of the article, the author uses a false dilemma.  It's either Biden or Trump; that's it.  No other political options are given, including the very real possibility of the evangelical right's throwing off their blatant hypocrisy and finding another, much more morally capable, Republican behind which to throw their powerful support.  There are most certainly other options, especially within the Republican party, yet the author is perfectly content to acknowledge quietly that Trump is "far from perfect" (an understatement, at the very least) and still imply that he's all they've got.  I will grant that this kind of "either-or" mentality works particularly well within the Christian community, since within their world-view, it is either God or Satan and there is nothing in between.  However, it is that type of strictly dichotomous thinking on which the political right is preying, even though within the political milieu, there are always shades of gray to be considered.  Maybe the evangelicals should be considering someone closer to the gray spectrum rather than Trump's moral pitch-blackness.   

All of these fallacies combine to target possibly the biggest weakness in the modern Christian Republican.  You see, Christians, in another great example of a false dilemma, are taught from the very beginning not to think; rather, they are to have faith--have faith in a 2000-year-old text, in prayer, in their spiritual leaders, and in God's will (whatever that may mean at the time).  Never is a Christian to question logically on his/her own; in fact, that would be the exact opposite of having faith and, thus, be the "instrument of the Devil."  

And that's where we find ourselves right now--in a society where critical thinking is debased if the conclusions reached do not square with that what a Christian has been told to believe.  And just so you know, those doing the telling right now are just fine with their Faustian bargain, for it is their man in charge.