Strong Christian nationalist embrace is shrinking, not growing

Evidence

The version of the religious right that put Donald Trump in the White House is the one that stepped onto the national stage in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan. It gathered force with another iteration of its founding lie—that it represented the “moral majority” of the nation—and this lie is yet another source of its weakness. The movement does not speak for a majority. It is a militant minority. The 26 percent of the voting age population that voted for the movement’s favored candidate in 2016 are far outnumbered by the slightly larger number of Americans who voted for a different candidate and over 40 percent of eligible voters that did not cast a ballot at all. We don’t need to create a new majority; we just need to give our existing majority the power to which it is entitled. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 1072 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shrinking groups become more salient and vocal, not less; Christian nationalists are a militant minority, not a moral majority — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 1072; Christian nationalists bank on turnout over demographic share to stay decisive. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 726 (+5 more)

Related

• Christian nationalists are a militant minority, not a moral majority (similarity 0.94)
• Christian nationalists bank on turnout over demographic share to stay decisive. (similarity 0.88)
• Declining Christian nationalist numbers make their adherents feel threatened and marginalized (similarity 0.87)
• Christian nationalist power rests on skewed electoral representation (similarity 0.86)
• Christian nationalists openly avow a ten-percent minority can seize power (similarity 0.84)
• Christian nationalist leaders recruit nonwhite evangelicals to secure their demographic future. (similarity 0.81)
• Christian nationalism, not evangelical identity, drives conservative support for Trump (similarity 0.80)
• An ideology can outlive and outspread the demographic group that created it (similarity 0.80)
• Age, not aging, drives Christian nationalist support, predicting its decline through cohort replacement. (similarity 0.80)
• Christian nationalism seeks power, not pluralistic cultural influence (similarity 0.79)
• Christian nationalism preconditioned voters to accept authoritarian rule before Trump. (similarity 0.79)
• A ten-percent cohort claiming biblical worldviews drives the movement (similarity 0.79)
• Christian nationalism is a distinct ideology irreducible to racism, sexism, or xenophobia. (similarity 0.79)
• Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant. (similarity 0.78)
• Christian nationalist priorities transformed American democratic institutions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Christian nationalists are a militant minority, not a moral majority #corroborates (0.72) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 1072