Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: The people who used to run everything don’t anymore.
, president of the Public Religion Research Institute. “As recently as 2008, when our first Black president was elected, the U.S. was a majority white Christian country.” By 2014 the number had dropped to 47 percent, and in 2022 it stood at 42 percent.The group that has declined the most is at the core of the MAGA movement, the group most devoted to Christian nationalism. “White evangelical Protestants have experienced the steepest decline.
In some sense, White evangelicals’ desperate efforts to cling to political power and demand adherence to a set of outdated cultural norms only make the problem worse. Not many 20-year-olds would leap at the prospect of living in a state where abortion is unattainable, gays are ostracized and secularism is bashed.
Trump came along, telling the shrinking band of white Christian nationalists that they are victims. He reveled in nostalgia for a time when they dominated and blamed immigrants, elites and “wokeness” for their ills. They were the group most susceptible to a message that reinforces their feeling they have “lost” something or something has been “taken away.”
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