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Conservative Evangelicals
early and often
Jan. 9, 2024
Trump’s Appeal to Non-Churchgoing Evangelicals Is Undoing DeSantis A rapidly growing breed of evangelicals resembles Trump in his non-observant habits and focus on smiting perceived enemies.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 28, 2023
Conservative Christian Affection for Fascists Predates Trump Anyone shocked by Christian Trump voters’ tolerance for his increasingly authoritarian rhetoric and policies should look to European history.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
July 17, 2023
Iowa Evangelicals Flock to the Church of Tucker Carlson Conservative Evangelicals’ surrender to Donald Trump remains shocking. Their surrender to Tucker Carlson in Iowa shows it was no accident.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 3, 2023
Evangelicals Are Trump’s Firewall Against Primary Losses Many Evangelical voters remain grateful for how Trump delivered for them. And a growing subset see him as a key figure in their spiritual warfare.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 14, 2023
DeSantis Signs Radical Abortion Law But Won’t Talk About It Hours after he signed a six-week abortion ban, the Florida governor gave a stock speech at Liberty University with God and abortion notably absent.
By Ed Kilgore
9/11: 20 years later
Sept. 5, 2021
I Thought 9/11 Was the End-Times. Literally. This is what the attacks looked like to those steeped in a biblical education.
By Sarah Jones
polarization
July 8, 2021
We Are Two Nations, Divisible While Americans claim to want bipartisanship, our differences are clearly real and deep-seated. Embracing this is far healthier than denying it.
By Ed Kilgore
The Southern Baptist Church Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket Allegations of racism, sexual abuse, and idolatry toward Donald Trump are emanating from well-known figures in the largest Protestant denomination.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 12, 2021
Churchy Republicans Attack ‘Souls to the Polls’ A crackdown on Sunday voting is one of the more hypocritical of the voting-suppression methods pursued by Georgia’s Christian right.
By Ed Kilgore
conservatism
Mar. 12, 2021
What Can Republicans Do to Make ‘Conservative Populism’ More Popular? From identifying a few ways to re-redistribute resources to their constituencies to restricting the franchise, Republicans are battling the future.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Oct. 20, 2020
GOP Hopes That Amy Coney Barrett Would Fire Up the Base Fizzled It’s unclear that killing Garland’s confirmation or forcing Kavanaugh’s did electoral magic for the GOP. The non-fight over Barrett sure won’t.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 29, 2020
Trump Disrespects His Religious Followers, Former Aides Say Conservative Evangelical leaders may cynically accept a transactional relationship with a heathenish president, but in the pews they still believe.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Sept. 26, 2020
Are Amy Coney Barrett’s Religious Views Fair Game for Tough Questions? Charismatic Catholicism may seem alien to many Americans. But Barrett’s critics really need to educate themselves before diving down rabbit holes.
By Ed Kilgore
Could Dumping Pence Be a Last-Minute Game Changer for Trump? Incapable of changing his ways to salvage reelection, Trump might decide blaming the coronavirus mess on Pence and dropping him is the only option.
By Ed Kilgore
Cops and the Culture War There’s an old purpose behind the milkshake lie.
By Sarah Jones
george floyd protests
June 2, 2020
Christian Right Leaders Loved Trump’s Bible Photo Op Trump showed he’s willing to impose godly order on his — and white conservative Evangelicals’ — cultural enemies.
By Ed Kilgore
Many Evangelicals Are Defying Social Distancing to Go to Church There’s defiance in the air among some Evangelicals confronting efforts to regulate traditional services deemed a threat to public health.
By Ed Kilgore
christian right
Jan. 22, 2020
Christian Nationalists Are Drafting Legislation for State Republicans: Report The lobbyist strategy Project Blitz places anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice bills before state legislatures. According to the 2018 session, it’s working.
By Matt Stieb
christian right
Dec. 22, 2019
Fighting Impeachment As Spiritual Warfare The Christian Right is more invested in Trump’s survival — beyond an impeachment trial and the next election — than ever.
By Ed Kilgore
christian right
Nov. 26, 2019
Christian Right Leaders Suggest Trump Critics Are Possessed by Demons Politicized conservative Evangelicals have talked themselves not only into treating the great heathen Trump as holy, but his critics as demonic.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Anti-Abortion ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Snag Federal Family-Planning Funds? One branch of the anti-abortion movement is trying to rebrand itself as pro-contraceptive, just like Republican politicians.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Trump’s Evangelical Allies Are Enraged Over His Betrayal of the Kurds Neocons aren’t the only ones angry at Trump for green-lighting a Turkish invasion. Religious leaders say it could harm Christians in the region.
By Ed Kilgore
Christian Conservative Politics Are Driving Liberals Out of the Pews The loud belief of militantly conservative Christians that being religious means being Republican may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
By Ed Kilgore
When Trump Talks About Jews, He’s Really Talking to Evangelical Christians Trump’s appeals to Jews are mostly dog whistles to his Evangelical base, which views Jews and Israel as central to the Second Coming.
By Ed Kilgore
Do Conservative Evangelicals Like Trump Not Despite But for His Hatefulness? Some suggest they prefer Trump to one of their own as a leader, as they find his un-Christ-like qualities effective.
By Ed Kilgore
Does Trump Love Tariffs More Than He Loves the Bible? Trump’s beloved tariffs against China, as proposed, could devastate production of Bibles to the dismay of his conservative Christian base.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Is Not a Defender of Religious Liberty but a Threat to It Trump’s combination of hate-mongering and loud identification with Christianity is the antithesis of the American tradition of religious pluralism.
By Ed Kilgore
Openly Gay, Openly Christian Buttigieg Challenges the Religious Right A churchgoing, married vet who happens to be gay will likely confound a religious right that embraces homophobia and President Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
Ilhan Omar Is a Convenient Republican Target The party is hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
4 Reasons Republicans Are Keeping the Heat on Ilhan Omar Omar is a convenient target for Republicans hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Aug. 30, 2018
White Non-Evangelical Working-Class Women Could Be 2018’s Key Swing Voters Gender, class and religious outlook are pulling one swing voter category away from the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
evangelicals
Aug. 28, 2018
Trump Warns Evangelicals That Dems Will Restore a Law That Was Never Repealed The president keeps claiming he’s gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment, which won’t let tax-exempt entities campaign for politicians. He didn’t.
By Ed Kilgore
George Will Calls ‘Repulsive’ Pence Worse Than Trump The vice-president has lost the independent reputation that made him a potential survivor of a Trump meltdown.
By Ed Kilgore
#MeToo in the Pews: A Backlash Against the Baptist Patriarchy An unprecedented revolt against a conservative icon of the largest conservative evangelical denomination shows that the #MeToo movement is everywhere.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Faith-Based PR Strategy The president announced a faith-based initiative that seems more aggressive and politically important than those of his predecessors.
By Ed Kilgore
What the Christian Right Sowed, Trump Reaped A prominent Evangelical who once advised George W. Bush makes the case that his fellow believers lost their way long before falling into Trump’s lap.
By Ed Kilgore
The Christian Right’s Willful Faith in Trump A new book shows how Evangelical leaders are desperately trying to convince themselves that the president’s not just using them.
By Ed Kilgore
Alabama’s Christian Right Has Been Doubly Disgraced in 2017 In Roy Moore and former governor Bentley, the state’s conservative Evangelicals have backed two bad apples from the same basket.
By Ed Kilgore
No, Sexual Abuse of Minors Isn’t a Plus for Alabama Voters Alabama’s patriarchal culture may provide some cover for sexual predators. But a more likely reason for sympathy for Roy Moore is hatred of the media.
By Ed Kilgore
Nashville Statement Signers Condemn Christians Who Accept LGBTQ Folk The distinguished conservative Evangelicals who signed the Nashville Statement deny fellowship to Christians who have no problems with LGBTQ folk.
By Ed Kilgore
Forgotten Mainline Protestants Challenge Evangelicals to Stand Up to Trump While most conservative evangelical leaders are avid Trump fans or passive enablers, mainline Protestants are urging them to show some independence.
By Ed Kilgore