Evangelical support rose as Trump grew more offensive and bombastic.

Evidence

AS THE ELECTION NEARED, the evangelical vote for Trump seemed secure. In fact, the more unconventional, bombastic, and offensive he became, the more evangelicals seemed to rally to his side. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 593

Categorization

• XREF: The inverse-relationship claim — provocation increases rather than erodes support — is the counterintuitive core of the book’s thesis and echoes the earlier chapters’ pattern that outrage was itself programmed into the masculine evangelical identity. — connects to: White evangelical support for Trump rose between 2016 and 2020 — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 53