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Showing Original Post only (View all)Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals arent rejecting Trump. This is why. [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/26/despite-porn-stars-and-playboy-models-white-evangelicals-arent-rejecting-trump-this-is-why/?utm_term=.22988d936d04&wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1snip-
Why are white Christians sticking so closely to Trump, despite these claims of sexual indiscretions? And why are religious individuals and groups that previously decried sexual impropriety among political leaders suddenly willing to give Trump a mulligan on his infidelity?
Our new study points to a different answer than others have offered. Voters religious tenets arent actually whats behind Trump support; rather, its Christian nationalism their view of the United States as a fundamentally Christian nation.
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The more someone believed the United States is and should be a Christian nation, the more likely they were to vote for Trump
First, Americans who agreed with the various measures of Christian nationalism were much more likely to vote for Trump, even after controlling for a host of other influences, such as political ideology, political party, and other cultural factors proposed as possible explanations of Trump voting.
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Antagonism toward Muslims was just as important as Christian nationalism
Finally, the various cultural explanations that other researchers have examined didnt predict Trump support in our study, with one notable exception: anti-Muslim sentiment. How much a U.S. voter feared Muslims was as significant in predicting who voted for Trump as Christian nationalism. Overall the strongest predictors of Trump voting were the usual suspects of political identity and race, followed closely by Islamophobia and Christian nationalism.
What does this mean?
Many voters believed, and presumably still believe, that regardless of his personal piety (or lack thereof), President Trump would defend what they saw as the countrys Christian heritage and would help move the nation toward a distinctly Christian future. Ironically, Christian nationalism is focused on preserving a perceived Christian identity for America irrespective of the means by which such a project would be achieved.
Hence many white Christians believe Trump may be an effective instrument in Gods plan for America, even if he is not particularly religious himself.
In the upcoming midterm elections, Trump and other politicians will keep emphasizing Christian nationalism. After all, it works.
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Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals arent rejecting Trump. This is why. [View all]
Poiuyt
Mar 2018
OP
Their racist, bigoted, homophobic, lying, morally bankrupt assholes. Theyre NOT Christians.
onecaliberal
Mar 2018
#1
Religious himackers. Fakes. What ever you want to call it. Read the New Testament to see what a
onecaliberal
Mar 2018
#47
They are not Chirst like, but they are very much in tradition with probably at least 51% of
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
#27
As I suspected; Prosperity Gospel/End time Evangelicals will vote for the Anti-Christ...
haele
Mar 2018
#3
rub their noses in it...which porn star would jesus hump??????call them the hypocrites that they are
dembotoz
Mar 2018
#5
All the trump supporters I encounter are evangelicals who believe this or some variation of it.
hunter
Mar 2018
#24
Pst - in evangelicals mind it doesn't count when it's a "red-blooded American White Male"
forgotmylogin
Mar 2018
#13
For them, its all about abortion and same sex marriage- which means Supreme Court picks who would...
Beaverhausen
Mar 2018
#14
The main reason they still support him is that he is going to bring about End Times
maryellen99
Mar 2018
#18