But one in five adult Californians identify as evangelical, and Southern California has long been a vital center of the Religious Right. It also shows why white evangelicals remain Trump’s strongest supporters. The early Religious Right of the 1980s and 1990s optimistically believed it could redeem the nation by bringing Christians into politics. White evangelicals’ support for Trump doesn’t expose their hypocrisy so much as it plainly reveals their heart. Some – secularists especially – may hope that move will eventually lead to the demise of the Religious Right and the exit of white evangelicals from American political life.

Source: Huffington Post June 02, 2018 10:52 UTC