This understanding has been literally sold, Du Metz argues, through a culture of religious consumerism. Instead, he embodied their understanding of Jesus, patriarchy, and militant masculinity as developed by Christian nationalists over the last century. Trump was not the tactical “lesser of two evils” white evangelicals voted for while holding their noses. Trump was tolerated as “someone who would break the rules for the right cause.” Du Mez argues that just the opposite is true. ![]() For these prizes, evangelicals were willing to look past (and maybe even forgive?) his predilection for porn stars and profanity. ![]() When the 2016 election results revealed that 80% of white evangelicals voted for the irreverent adulterer, pundits scratched their heads before eventually assessing that support for the divorcee was strategic: evangelicals could count on the bankrupted billionaire to appoint conservative federal judges and Supreme Court justices to uphold and enforce their culture war goals in the legal system. Kristin Du Mez’s bestselling Jesus and John Wayne (Liveright, 2020) upends conventional understanding about the white evangelical relationship with Donald Trump.
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