White evangelicals felt more nostalgic pessimism about 1950s America than any other group

Evidence

In 2016, nearly three-quarters of white evangelicals believed America had changed for the worse since the 1950s, a more pessimistic view than any other group. They were looking for a man who could put things right, a man who could restore America to a mythical Christian past. Like Bachmann, they believed that God had blessed America and they believed Trump understood this; he wasn’t ashamed of Christian America. Trump wasn’t just a nationalist, he was a Christian nationalist, and he wasn’t afraid to throw his weight around. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 614

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to standard ‘Make America Great Again’ nostalgia literature and Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land on the deep story of betrayed white Christian Americans.