Since the 1930s, American evangelical elites have embraced successively two different and flawed political creeds. Both positions reflected their American identity more than their Christian faith. In this respect, the movement’s leadership failed to serve well the rank and file. When mainstream conservative political leaders didn’t provide astute, biblically informed analysis, white evangelicals had little such reflection of their own to draw upon, ultimately making illiberal authoritarianism an attractive option.
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Gillis Harp
Gillis Harp is the author, most recently, of Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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