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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 Kobus 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 U.S. Empire.

By 2016, evangelical group identity had long since become defined more by a shared consumer market and militarist nationalism

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