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Like in 2016, there will be lots of discussion about the 76% of evangelicals who voted Trump. A quick thread with some reading recommendations, based on research I did for this @FES_DC report on gender and far-right politics in the US over the summer: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/usa/16648.pdf 1/
Key here is the dominant role of white Christian nationalism within evangelicalism, expressed through nativism & belief country is on the 'wrong path' forward b/c of threats to family values & traditional gender roles-- linking national decline with moral degeneracy & evil & 2/
using nostalgia for a supposed Golden Age of 1950s & restorative promises of a utopian future, laden with racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim & anti-LGBTQ views & filled w/masculine bluster in ways that appealed to white evangelicals who feel threatened by demographic & social 3/
change. As @sarahposner argues in her book Unholy, for the religious right, Trump isn't just a president who would defend white Christians' future. He is seen as a "divine leader" sent by God to deliver power back into the hands of the Christian right, reinstating authority 4/
to its proper place & thereby saving America. I highly recommend reading Posner's book Unholy, along with @kkdumez book Jesus & John Wayne, Robert Jones The End of White Christian America & White Too Long, @ndrewwhitehead & @socofthesacred Taking America Back for God, along w/ 5/
work tracing the roots of these dynamics in Tea Party by @khadastrophic & @MelissaDeckman. Also Phil Gorski, @sarahljaffe, Elizabeth Monk-Turner have written helpful pieces on why evangelicals/white women voted for Trump. Surely lots of others I'm missing. /END
