“They’d Vote Against Jesus Christ Himself”: Trump’s “White Evangelicals,” the Construction of a Contested Identity, and the Need for a New Narrative
The Pew Research Center’s analysis of preliminary exit polling reported that “81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump.”1 Starting the day after the 2016 election, when it first appeared in the Washington Post, the statistic was ubiquitous, and it elicited a combination of antipathy,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 648-670 |
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Evangelical movement
/ Presidential election
/ Trump, Donald 1946-
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | The Pew Research Center’s analysis of preliminary exit polling reported that “81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump.”1 Starting the day after the 2016 election, when it first appeared in the Washington Post, the statistic was ubiquitous, and it elicited a combination of antipathy, jubilee, and consternation.2 These divergent reactions collided to ignite an ongoing debate about the exact role that white evangelicals played in sending Donald Trump to the White House. Headlines blared that white evangelicals voted for Trump in “record numbers” and some angrily blamed white evangelicals for Trump’s broadly unexpected win.3 Given Trump’s personal history and evangelicalism’s moral platform, exasperation was another common reaction. One journalist lamented, “Eighty percent of white evangelicals would vote against Jesus Christ himself if he ran as a Democrat.”4 In the ensuing backlash, frustrated white evangelicals tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to dislodge the narrative.5Popular... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa083 |