Evangelical protestants on the right have for ages wanted to cut down the forest of secularism that they believe blights the American landscape. Secularism gets in the way of Christian politics and breeds vice, or so the story goes. There’s some truth in that; secularism has its vices, and Donald Trump, the most secular Republican president since Lincoln—and perhaps the most secular ever—has shown little interest in supporting traditional evangelical-supported restrictions on abortion, gambling, marijuana, abortifacient contraception, and a host of other reforms historically coded as “Christian right.”
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Miles Smith
Dr. Miles Smith IV is a historian of the American South and native Carolinian. Follow him on Twitter @ivmiles.
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