I'm sorry to see that my old friend, Francis Beckwith, is engaged in moral preening. Get off your high horse, Frank, and support the only person who can stop Hillary Clinton. Politics isn't about perfection, purity, or high principle; it's about doing the best one can with the resources (including the personnel) one has at one's disposal. (You go to war with the army you have, not the army you dream of having, wish you had, or would have, if things were different than they are.) The American people have chosen a candidate to reverse this country's alarming course. Instead of vilifying or disparaging those people, learn from them. Most of them are conservative, some deeply so. They love their country; they value the rule of law; they want to preserve traditions such as heterosexual marriage (note the retronym); they work hard, pay their bills, do their military and civic duty, and provide for their families.
These are the people who have chosen Donald Trump, because they believe (1) that he is not part of the problem that has gotten us where we are and (2) that he will solve many or most of our economic and social problems. Get right with Donald, Frank. By the way, there is no necessary connection between theism and conservatism. One can be a theist without being a conservative and a conservative without being a theist. Anyone who claims otherwise is engaged in persuasive definition (of the word "conservative").
Addendum: Beckwith includes "manners" in his description of conservatism. I'm not sure what he means by that or why Donald Trump falls short in that area, but let's face facts. Progressives have no manners. To them, the end justifies the means. If conservatives are to compete with progressives in the political arena, they must fight with the same weapons. Take a knife to a gunfight and you will come out on the short end. If Beckwith is alluding to the Christian injunction to turn the other cheek, then he misunderstands the difference between morality and politics. Politics is war fought by other means. It's not a gentleman's debating club or a formal dinner governed by the rules of etiquette. Progressives need to be vilified at every turn, for they will not hesitate to vilify conservatives at every turn. Where did civility and manners get John McCain and Mitt Romney? Donald Trump is a street fighter. He may lose to Hillary Clinton, but it won't be because he took the high road, turned the other cheek, or played the gentleman. He will go down fighting. I am sick to death of feckless conservatives.
