Evangelical supporters framed the 1950s as a golden age of American innocence

Evidence

Brody and Lamb also made much of Trump’s rootedness in traditional American values. They quoted Michele Bachmann at length on Trump’s “1950s sensibilities,” by which she meant that he really did “believe in a strong America because he grew up being proud of the United States—‘a John Wayne America.’” Unfortunately, children today were being taught that the United States was “an evil country and that somehow we’ve hurt the rest of the world,” but this was “one of the biggest lies” young people were being told. America had been “a force for good.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 611

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘John Wayne America’ framing directly echoes the book’s title figure and its earlier chapters on Wayne as the embodiment of white evangelical masculinity. — connects to: White evangelicals felt more nostalgic pessimism about 1950s America than any other group — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 614
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: White evangelicals felt more nostalgic pessimism about 1950s America than any other group — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 614

Broader Connections

• White evangelicals felt more nostalgic pessimism about 1950s America than any other group #corroborates (0.92) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 614