Political defeats deepened evangelicals’ resentment rather than moderating their worldview.

Evidence

Hoping to stem the Leftward drift of younger evangelicals, Grudem made a point of criticizing those tempted to vote candidate over party, a transgression too many evangelicals had committed in 2008. In 2012, he and his conservative allies did see a small decrease in evangelical defections (Obama’s share of the white evangelical vote dropped to 21 percent), but they failed to vote Obama out of office. Resentment festered. As President Obama was being sworn in for his second term, Mark Driscoll tweeted that he was praying for a president who would be placing “his hands on a Bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 539

Categorization

• XREF: Driscoll’s tweet echoes the rhetorical dehumanization of Obama that earlier chapters documented in evangelical media; the continuity theme. — connects to: The Scopes humiliation drove evangelicals into a self-imposed cultural retreat. — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 69; By 2008 the Religious Right’s old guard appeared to be losing young evangelicals. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 530; Evangelicals linked the erosion of patriarchy to the nation’s political decline — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 548 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Scopes humiliation drove evangelicals into a self-imposed cultural retreat. — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 69; By 2008 the Religious Right’s old guard appeared to be losing young evangelicals. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 530; Evangelicals linked the erosion of patriarchy to the nation’s political decline — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 548 (+8 more)