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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 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.


https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073215412/christian-national...

Evangelicals are key backers of the republican party.


Evangelicalism 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.



The 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.




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