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Friday, May 11, 2018

Trump's Appeal to Evangelicals Explained

An Evangelical Professor Explains the Troubled Nostalgia and Racial Anxiety Behind Christians’ support for Trump from Raw Story
"In Fea’s analysis, three tropes—fear, nostalgia, and power—primarily account for Trump’s appeal to evangelicals. A sense of cultural disorientation tinged with racism plays into the long-standing conservative strategy—the appeal to fear, nurtured by Trump more effectively than any other candidate."
This sounds spot on!

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