Are the dominant voices of white evangelical Christianity in the United States destined to be angry and defensive? Is President Trump making sure they stay that way?
I found myself asking these questions after I read my Post colleague Elizabeth Bruenig’s revealing and deeply reported essay about her journey to Texas to probe why evangelicals have been so loyal to Trump and are likely to remain so.
Hers was a venture in sympathetic understanding and empathetic listening. What she heard was a great desire to push back against liberals, to defend a world that sees itself under siege and to embrace Trump — not as a particularly good man but as a fighter against all of the things and people and causes that they cannot abide. Even more, they believe liberals and secularists are utterly hostile to the culture they have built and the worldview they embrace.
In God’s Country
Evangelicals Have Abandoned Their Mission In Favor Of Trump
Evangelicals Are Naked Before the World
Evangelicals’ Infallible New Faith: The Gospel Of Trump
Why Most Evangelicals Don’t Condemn Trump
Trump Wants To End the Johnson Amendment Today. Here’s What You Need To Know
(from 2017 article but essential to understand the current lawsuits being filed by Christians)
