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Christian right

Socially conservative political ideology rooted in Christianity

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Jan 18, 2026
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How has Donald Trump's presidency impacted the relationship between the Christian right and the Republican Party?

Donald Trump’s presidency accelerated an already intimate but uneasy fusion between the Christian right and the Republican Party by delivering policy wins that energized conservative Christians while ...

Jan 20, 2026

How have mainstream evangelical leaders responded to or distanced themselves from dominionist and reconstructionist ideas?

Mainstream evangelical leaders have responded to dominionist and reconstructionist ideas with a mix of rejection, selective appropriation, and uneasy accommodation: many prominent evangelicals and ins...

Nov 15, 2025

Which political movements or parties have been linked to white Christian nationalism since 2016?

Scholars and journalists since 2016 most consistently link white Christian nationalism to the conservative Republican coalition (especially white evangelical Protestants), movements that fed into Dona...

Nov 12, 2025

How did evangelical support for Trump compare to their support for previous Republican candidates?

White evangelical support for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 was as strong as—or slightly stronger than—its backing for recent Republican nominees, with multiple analyses reporting roughly of white eva...

Oct 14, 2025

How does Charlie Kirk's religious background compare to that of other prominent conservative figures in the US?

Charlie Kirk’s religious trajectory is described across recent reporting as a shift from a less overtly religious public posture to an outspoken embrace of , positioning faith at the center of his pol...