Unholy : why white evangelicals worship at the altar of Donald Trump / Sarah Posner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posner, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Religious right--United States--History.

Religious right.

Christianity and politics--United States.

Christianity and politics.

Evangelicalism--Political aspects.

Evangelicalism.

Christians--Political activity.

Christians.

History.

United States.

Christians--Political activity--United States.

Evangelicalism--Political aspects--United States.

White supremacy movements--Religious aspects--Christianity.

White supremacy movements.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Politics and government.

Trump, Donald, 1946---Influence.

Trump, Donald.

United States--Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Instructional and educational works.

Physical Description:

xviii, 345 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2020]

Summary:

"Why did so many Evangelicals turn out to vote for Donald Trump, a serial philanderer with questionable conservative credentials who seems to defy Christian values with his every utterance? To a reporter like Sarah Posner, who has been covering the religious right for decades, the answer turns out to be far more intuitive than one might think. In this taut and meticulously reported inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement's core, and how religion has been used to cloak anxieties about percieved threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an anti-democratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda--and are actively using the erosion of democratic norms to roll back civil rights advances, stock the judiciary with hard-right judges, defang and deregulate federal agencies, and undermine the credibility of the free press. Increasingly, this formidable bloc is also forging ties with European far right groups, giving momentum to a truly global movement forecasted to last long after the Trump era. Revelatory and engrossing, Unholy offers a deeper understanding of the ideological underpinnings and forces influencing the course of Republican politics. This is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The blueprint for an assault of civil rights

God's strongman

Race rules

The alt-right out in the open

The origin myths of the Christian right

The new right and racism

The civil rights era is over

The end of American exceptionalism

The undrained swamp loves an autocrat

The assault on reality

Epilogue: And God will smite the impeachers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Posner, Sarah. Unholy.

ISBN:

9781984820426

1984820427

OCLC:

1117567568

Publisher Number:

99986279849