Kristin Kobez Du Mez, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation" (Liveright, 2020)

New Books in American Studies · Sep 3, 2020 · 1h 28m

One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals, a demographic that has stubbornly clung to him in the face of everything he has done. The fact that a thrice-married reality-TV star has been able to hold onto the ‘moral majority’ through thick and thin the last few years seems to many to be a sort of cultural contradiction. However, some would argue that the Evangelical support of Trump makes total sense given that, in spite of his supposed moral failings, he was just the sort of man they were…