American Christians had been making a large effort to reassert gender roles since the 1960s, and now they felt they were losing. “Gender was at the heart of this perceived vulnerability,” she writes, referring to the early 21st century that ushered in greater availability of contraception and the recognition of same-sex couples and transgender people. White evangelical Protestants, more so than other religious group in the United States, express approval of guns, capital punishment, border walls, war, and even torture disapprove of refugees and other immigrants trust their own religious authorities fear Islam and a future in which white people are no longer a majority in the US and consider themselves victims. Was it a pragmatic or transactional choice that is, did they trade their values for political power? Du Mez believes that, to the contrary, they acted on their values. Ultimately, in the general election, 81 percent of white evangelical voters picked Trump over Clinton. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez The question of TrumpismĮven before the 2016 primaries began, nearly half of white evangelicals hoped that Trump would gain the Republican nomination.
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