Christian nationalists are a militant minority, not a moral majority

Evidence

The version of the religious right that put Donald Trump in the White House is the one that stepped onto the national stage in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan. It gathered force with another iteration of its founding lie—that it represented the “moral majority” of the nation—and this lie is yet another source of its weakness. The movement does not speak for a majority. It is a militant minority. The 26 percent of the voting age population that voted for the movement’s favored candidate in 2016 are far outnumbered by the slightly larger number of Americans who voted for a different candidate and over 40 percent of eligible voters that did not cast a ballot at all. We don’t need to create a new majority; we just need to give our existing majority the power to which it is entitled. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 1072

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: White Christian nationalism treats voting as a right limited to worthy groups — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 313; Strong Christian nationalist embrace is shrinking, not growing; Christian nationalist leaders recruit nonwhite evangelicals to secure their demographic future. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 308 (+7 more)