White evangelical Protestants, more so than other religious group in the United States, express approval of guns, capital punishment, border walls, war, and even torture disapprove of refugees and other immigrants trust their own religious authorities fear Islam and a future in which white people are no longer a majority in the US and consider themselves victims. Was it a pragmatic or transactional choice that is, did they trade their values for political power? Du Mez believes that, to the contrary, they acted on their values.

Ultimately, in the general election, 81 percent of white evangelical voters picked Trump over Clinton. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez The question of TrumpismĮven before the 2016 primaries began, nearly half of white evangelicals hoped that Trump would gain the Republican nomination.