Christian nationalists bank on turnout over demographic share to stay decisive.
Evidence
“Remember how we were told we were going away? How we would recede as a political force?” Reed said to the crowd. “Not true, because the thing that matters is not your share of the population. That is declining. It’s the share of the electorate.” Reed nodded. “It only matters who actually turns out.” As the crowd murmured its assent, he continued, “If you take evangelicals who are 27 percent of the electorate and you add to them 11 percent of the electorate that are frequent Mass-attending Catholics, folks, it’s 38 percent of the electorate, and 56 percent of the entire Republican vote nationwide. If that vote goes away, the Republican party ceases to exist as a reliable political party.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 726
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the earlier claim that Christian nationalist strategy is bottom-up capture aimed at voter turnout over majority support. — connects to: Christian nationalist groups promised massive get-out-the-vote operations for 2016. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 703; Christian nationalists openly avow a ten-percent minority can seize power — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 651; Christian nationalist power rests on skewed electoral representation — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 1073 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Christian nationalist power rests on skewed electoral representation
#corroborates(0.90) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 1073 - Christian nationalists are a militant minority, not a moral majority
#complicates(0.75) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 1072 - Strong Christian nationalist embrace is shrinking, not growing
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