Washington Examiner editor Jim Antle is an insightful political observer who recently wrote for the Examiner about the role of Evangelicals in this year’s election here. (He’s also a fellow United Methodist who often worships at the same church.)
White Evangelicals, supplemented by many Hispanic Evangelicals, are a key voting bloc for Republicans, often voting for the GOP by 80% or more. In recent years they’re especially motivated by abortion, religious liberty, and judicial appointments. Increasingly Evangelicals are demonized by critics as “Christian nationalists.’ The fall of scandal-plagued (now former) Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., whose father was a Religious Right founder, has been a recent development in Evangelical politics.
Some critics of conservative Evangelicalism assert it faces demographic decline. White Evangelicals are a decreasing share of the U.S. population, but there are growing immigrant Evangelical populations who are socially conservative but whose politics are less certain.
I hope you learn from this conversation with Antle.
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