It was a tried-and-true recipe for their own success. For decades, the Religious Right had been kindling fear in the hearts of American Christians. Why Trump?, many wondered, including many evangelicals themselves. The whole books expounds a thick cultural narrative of the decisive dimension of that culture that approved Trump. In Kristin Kobes De Mez’s paradigm-influencing study of American evangelicalism, Jesus and John Wayne, the question of “How did evangelicals support Trump?,” is the driving question. This too is a fact: he not only is not one of them but he flaunts Christianity’s essential teachings and behaviors, and evangelicals both supported him in record numbers and have not criticized him (though it appears to me the tide is turning). This is a fact: some 80% of white evangelical Christians (who voted) voted for Donald J.
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