One of many surprises from this year’s presidential election has been the collapse of the Religious Right, once one of the most powerful lobbies in the Republican Party. Donald Trump’s successful campaign has mostly ignored the movement’s traditional power-brokers, who have spent most of this year arguing among themselves about whether he was a supportable candidate. Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore, one of the most prominent Evangelical leaders, has argued that the rise of Trump, and Evangelicals falling in behind him, marks the death of the movement.
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How the election split the Religious Right
one of many surprises from this year’s presidential election has been the collapse of the religious right, once one of the most powerful lob...
Jon Anderson
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