![]() ![]() ![]() Another analysis by labour leader Michael Podhorzer shows that the Republicans represent nearly every one of the highest-density evangelical districts (93% of the top quintile) in the House while the overwhelming majority of the Republican House Caucus (70%) represents most evangelical districts. According to the Brookings study, 71% of Christian nationalist adherents and 57% sympathisers held favourable views of Trump. Over half the adherents and 38% sympathisers also endorsed the idea of an authoritarian ruler. An October 2022 Pew study showed that 45% of those polled said the US should be a Christian nation, while one-third said it already is one.Īnd, a February 2023 Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution said that 54% of Republicans polled could either be classified as adherents (21%) or sympathisers (33%) of Christian nationalism, with adherents seven times more likely than non-adherents to suggest that “true patriots” may have to resort to violence. The impact of Christian nationalism -which scholar Paul D Miller defines as the presumption that Christians are America’s first citizens, architects, and guardians they invented America and have the right to stay on top and define its culture and identity and that America is for Christians, particularly White Christians, and should be a Christian nation - has, however, been captured in polls repeatedly.Ī May 2022 University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll showed that 61% of Republicans supported declaring the US a Christian nation, even if more than half the Republicans acknowledged that this would be unconstitutional. This is not to say that the BJP doesn’t prioritise Hindutva in its political matrix, but imagine the western media’s narrative if Narendra Modi went around saying that only the shastras define his worldview. Yet, even the American liberal media hesitates to consistently label Republicans a Christian nationalist force, a reticence that does not extend to, say the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which always has the “Hindu nationalist” descriptor attached. But perhaps no single framework explains Johnson’s rise, Trump’s popularity, the judiciary’s arch-conservative orientation, the elimination of national legal protection for abortion rights, the backlash against pedagogy around slavery and the obsession with sexual mores than the increased salience of Christian Nationalism, fuelled by demographic anxieties amid the relative decline of the Christian population as America becomes more multi-religious. Immigration has also led the Right to peddle the “Great Replacement Theory”, which suggests that the influx of outsiders was part of an organised conspiracy to take over America.Īll of it is linked. Barack Obama’s presidential tenure was emblematic of this trend, and the most progressive vote in America in 20 was followed by the most regressive vote in 2016. The demographic churn, with the rise in the power of people of colour, caused anxieties among the White majority. The dramatic shift in the voter base of the two parties, where White and increasingly Black and Hispanic voters who didn’t go to college are opting for Republicans while the college-educated across race veers towards Democrats, reflects this changing political landscape. Liberals failed to recognise this angst and shift policy gears. Globalisation and technology hollowed out American working-class jobs. ![]() Since Trump’s election in 2016, American political scientists have offered several frameworks, primarily economic and cultural, to explain the rise of the Far-Right. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus, the Far-Right branch of the Republican Party which has moved from the fringe to the mainstream of America’s oldest political formation in less than a decade. ![]() He denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential elections and had few qualms about the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which was animated by the presence of religious extremists. Johnson is opposed to abortion access and same-sex intimacy. Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook. ![]()
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