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The term seems to be used as a catch all for trump’s base

• mercer 6y ago
  Which is not entirely fair, speaking as an ex-evangelical. Plenty of fully dedicated evangelicals disapprove of Trump. And while a disappointing number of them do approve, it's by no means a unified base.
  • weare138 6y ago
    I've met both kinds of Evangelicals. I think we need to figure out a term to differentiate between the normal Evangelicals and this strange subset of American Evangelicalism.
    • krapp 6y ago
      Support for Trump among Evangelicals has always remained steady at or slightly above 80%. The "strange subset" of Evangelicals are the ones who don't support him, the "normal" ones are the ones who do, by a wide margin.
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      • kohtatsu 6y ago
        Perhaps they meant normal relative to themselves (and presumably the reader), not normal relative to the group. The word "subset" did trip me up for a second though.
      • mercer 6y ago
        agreed. The 'good kind' that I grew up with has always been a minority even within the communities we were part of.