You'd think the establishment and its chattering classes could have a moment of self-awareness that their aggregate behaviour has been so appalling that people

You'd think the establishment and its chattering classes could have a moment of self-awareness that their aggregate behaviour has been so appalling that people who have never been to church in their lives are turning to God. What The Economist is missing is they have never understood evangelicals as anything other than caricatures. Most of the popular understanding of them comes from Jack Chick comics and the farcically corrupt televangelists of the 80s, coupled with music samples of fire and brimstone sermons in industrial music. That chapel who protested gay peoples funerals was an appalling example, but it has occupied the role of straw man ever since. The Economist's view essentially reduces to, "let them eat stimulus checks," and along with the rest of the progressive establishment, they have profoundly misunderstood what a religious revival means. The reason all these people are getting right with their maker is because they are preparing for war.