Comment: Seems to me that your nation's urge for change responded to pandering as if it was leadership. Not always an easy distinction, but the length of the campaign should suredly have evaporated any confusion. Listening to the people and hearing their needs and helping them resolve them is leadership; listening for your personal agenda and manipulating, evoking, exacerbating them to one's selfish benefit is pandering. That's what you got.
Discerning the difference, as to the white Evangelical and Catholic seems fairly easy: are you willing to ignore demonstrated unsuitability over an extremely wide spectrum of despicability for the sake of one issue, held with clear duplicity by the panderer, that is self-defined, by the adherents, in a narrow, rote manner that is in fact held with sanctimonious extreme emotion.
It is one thing to work with a decent person to find a way; another to cede one's principle in trust to a panderer. It's akin to asking the serial killer to hold your gun for you.