Donald Trump was almost inevitable, particularly when considering the fears that conservative Christians had about the ongoing viability of their dominant institutions. Far from being evidence of our movement’s failure, the current state of American Christianity is proof that our movement has succeeded spectacularly, if by succeed we mean “done what it was intended to do.” In the final pages of his great epic The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien writes of his heroes, Sam and Frodo, and their desperate