Evangelicalism itself has come to be defined by militant masculine icons

Evidence

For many evangelicals, the masculine values men like John Wayne, William Wallace, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Jordan Peterson, and Donald Trump embody have come to define evangelicalism itself. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 678

Categorization

• XREF: This is the book’s final consolidation of the continuity thesis; connects to the reader’s whole reading purpose.
• SEED: The slide from Wayne to Peterson to Trump as a single lineage of evangelical masculine icons offers a compact essay hook on how consumer-culture masculinity colonized a religious identity.