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It's weird how the "Christian nationalism" meme has been pushed by the usual suspects when US church attendance is at an all-time low, and religious influence o
by pseudo0 4y ago
It's weird how the "Christian nationalism" meme has been pushed by the usual suspects when US church attendance is at an all-time low, and religious influence on politics is a shadow of its former self. My guess is it's a mixture of obsession with The Handmaid's Tale, and the need for an alternative pejorative term that can be applied to black and Hispanic conservatives.
- themitigating 4y agohttps://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073215412/christian-nationalism-donald-trump https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073215412/christian-national... Evangelicals are key backers of the republican party.
- tsunamifury 4y agoEvangelicalism is now a meaningless term with the nyt even claiming it’s largely an identity that does not practice in any form. It’s just a default conservative term for whose who can’t admit they are atheists.
- themitigating 4y agoNo, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
- kelnos 4y agoThe problem is that US political parties don't actually express the will of the majority of their constituents. These "Christian nationalists" are not a majority in any shape or form, but the GOP as a party bends over backwards for them.