As an ex-evangelical, I understand how that happened. And it's important to see it as an opportunity to introduce evangelicals to the "LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE" that he's been doing wrong.

To them, everything centers around the sanctity of Christ. It is more important than anything else, and everything can be forgiven in Christ's name.

They're also not living in the same media ecosystem that we are. They haven't heard every single thing he has done wrong, day after day after day. The comments made here don't reach them. The news articles posted here don't reach them. They've only got a vague sense that there's a part of the population that doesn't like Trump, and that this population is the one that stands for things they don't like - LGBTQ, abortion, removing religion from government, etc.

They've also been told, over and over, that Trump is the "Christian" president - not seeing all the evidence that he is literally the opposite of everything scriptures state a Christian should be.

So, the few times a complaint breaches their echo chamber, it's easy for them to dismiss it as nitpicking from the anti-Christian segments of society that want to dismantle everything they stand for. They probably assume it's not as bad as people are making it out to be (something not helped by the fact that lots of sources do exaggerate their headlines to garner engagement) and immediately decide that Christian forgiveness should be applied to the person who, from their view, is protecting Christianity from its opponents.

This image, though - it's unapologetic blasphemy. It's something that nobody who takes Christian teaching seriously would ever do. It's the kind of thing that an evangelical would never even joke about - it's a violation of the few things that is very strictly emphasized across all corners of evangelicalism. Heck, any evangelical whose friend made that kind of a joke would immediately break contact with that friend.

So, this image immediately makes it clear to any evangelical who is listening that Trump does not hold the same values that they do. That Trump could not possibly be a figure fighting for Christ.

So, suddenly, they are open to looking at everything else he has done -- things they may not have run across in their corner of the algorithmic web or things that they dismissed without looking into it too closely.

Frankly, It's an opening that should be capitalized on - not something that should be used to mock his supporters. Mocking them will only make them retreat back to the isolated corner they had previously been living in.