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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Outside observers and critics confronted white evangelical support

for Donald Trump as a puzzle to be solved. But where many saw hypocrisy, my guest today,

historian Kristen Cobis Dumay identified a number of continuities. Trump, she shows,

was exactly the man many evangelicals had been waiting for,

domineering, sexist, and celebrating violence against myriad others. Trump was the very sort of

patriarch who had for decades been idealized in mass market evangelical culture. From John Wayne

to Donald Trump, quote, the affinity was based not on theology, but rather on a shared masculine

ideal. It became a creed that preached a quote, mutually reinforcing vision of Christian masculinity,

of patriarchy and submission, sex and power, power to be exercised in the home, church, nation,

and across a world dominated by US empire. By 2016, evangelical group identity had long

since become defined more by a shared consumer market and militarist nationalism than

denominational niceties are eschatological particulars. Dumay is herself a Calvinist who grew

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