White evangelical election rhetoric follows a fixed recurring script.
Evidence
Growing up in white evangelicalism meant that every presidential election cycle we heard some variation of the following: “It is important that we vote! We need to put a godly person in the White House. Our nation is the greatest on earth because of God’s blessing. But right now, our culture is going to hell in a handbasket. We need to return to God’s ways as a nation. Our children’s future depends on it!” — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 234
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White evangelical quietism is a tactic that flips when power shifts — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 294; The same rhetorical repetition fortified the right while further delegitimating the left — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 24; White Christian nationalism operates as an adaptable narrative, not fixed beliefs — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 19 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The same rhetorical repetition fortified the right while further delegitimating the left
#expands(0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 24 - White Christian nationalism operates as an adaptable narrative, not fixed beliefs
#complicates(0.75) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 19 - White evangelical quietism is a tactic that flips when power shifts
#complicates(0.72) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 294 - A crucial rhetorical shift produces a new political narrative
#exemplifies(0.71) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 134