Some Evangelicals Want to Break Trump’s Hold on Their Faith
A group of non-MAGA Christian conservatives wants to heal the troubled relationship between religion and politics.
Is there room for non-Trump evangelicals?
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The question of whether the Republican Party can be salvaged for democracy is in part a question about the future of White evangelical conservatives, whose war on pluralism and modernity grows fiercer and more desperate by the day.
In the 2023 American Values Survey, three-quarters of White evangelical Protestants agreed that the US was intended to be a Christian nation with Western European values. As the nation grows less Christian and less European, the anxiety of evangelical conservatives — the GOP base — is a powerful driver of Republican reaction.