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"And that feels both utterly predictable and sadly depressing.
The admixture of religion and politics right now is ugly."
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"Here’s PRRI’s unique contribution to the discussion. Who still, despite it all, has favorable views of Donald Trump?
White Christians, especially white evangelical Protestants, that’s who.
Trump’s religion base is holding firm. White Christians have hardly budged in their support of Donald Trump."
~ Diana Butler Bass
The Cottage · Sacred Rebellion?
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7. So much for “improper ideology”: There is broad support for a critical approach to teaching American history.
The full PRRI report is at the link below. The survey was conducted among a representative sample of 5,025 adults (age 18 and up) living in all 50 states via online interviews between February 28th – March 20th, 2025.
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4. Eight in ten Americans oppose the establishment of Trump’s so-called “Anti-Christian Bias Task Force.”
5. Few Americans believe the racist so-called “Great Replacement Theory” or support Trump’s plans to establish militarized internment camps to facilitate mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
6. Most Americans do not believe there is serious discrimination against Christians or white Americans, but Republicans and white evangelicals do.
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Robert P. Jones lists 7 key findings of the new PRRI poll results published today:
1. A majority of Americans agree that Trump is “a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited.”
2. Trump is underwater, and sinking, on job approval and personal favorability.
3. Few Americans, and only three in ten Republicans, believe the president should be able to ignore Congress or the Supreme Court.
#Trump #polls #authoritarianism #PRRI
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/new-prri-poll-most-americans-believe
www.whitetoolong.netNew PRRI Poll: Most Americans Believe Trump is Dangerous Dictator--and Six Other Key Findings on Trump's 100 DaysThere are signs that the public is waking up to the dangers Trump presents for democracy--a summary of Trump's first 100 days in 5 charts.
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"Let me say again to the pundit/journalist class: This present crisis is fundamentally a religious one. We would not be here without the collective action of white evangelicals. If you aren’t analyzing this aspect of things, if you aren’t trying to understand why, if you aren’t going deep on American religion, you aren’t covering the story."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #polls #authoritarianism #immigrants #PRRI
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"As Kristin Du Mez neatly summarized, new PRRI data shows almost all groups of Trump voters souring on him. Except for one.
Yep, his old faithful friends, white evangelicals, 76% of whom are still lockstep with him. Most of them are even fine with him putting undocumented immigrants in concentration camps. Seriously."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #polls #authoritarianism #immigrants #PRRI
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-hardest-departures-of-all
A Zebra Without Stripes · The hardest departure of all
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"White evangelicals (56%) are also 'the only religious group with majority support for militarized encampments for undocumented immigrants.' Let that sink in."
The most ardent "pro-life" Christians in the US want militarized encampments for immigrants. Let that sink in.
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PRRI has a report out re: how the electorate views Trump. It will be released later today. As with every recent poll, it finds his approval rating seriously underwater, with 52% agreeing he's a "dangerous dictator."
But not white evangelicals: Kristin Du Mez reports,
"3 in 4 white evangelicals (76%) approve of the job Trump is doing as president.
This is exactly what they voted for."
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/democracy-at-a-crossroads
Du Mez CONNECTIONS · Democracy at a Crossroads
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"White evangelical protestants make up the only major religious group that does not have a majority supporting a path to citizenship [for immigrants]. That support has fallen from 53% in 2013 to 40% now.
The Public Religion Research Institute survey seemed to find an element of hatred in some of the opposition to allowing more undocumented immigrants to become citizens."
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"Public opinion research conducted in October [by PRRI] shows a shift in one political party that might make Donald Trump’s election on Nov. 5 less of a surprise. A majority of the party now agrees with a sentiment about immigration that has previously been associated with organized hate — that they are 'poisoning the blood of the country.'”
~ Marty Schladen
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Alternet.org · Pre-election research shows disturbing trend among Republicans
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"Overall, the pattern is unambiguous: most white Christians – along with groups in which they constitute a majority, like the Tea Party – believe that America is on a downhill slide, while strong majorities of most other groups in the country say things are improving” (p. 87)."
But it's about the economy — always. It's NEVER about race and gender, racism and misogyny. It's about the price of eggs.
#Harris #Trump #WhiteVoters #racism #gender #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #PRRI
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"Meanwhile, approximately six in ten Hispanic Catholics (59 percent) say the opposite – that American culture has changed for the better. Approximately six in ten (63 percent) religiously unaffiliated Americans also say American culture and way of life has changed for the better since the mid-twentieth century, as do majorities of African American Protestants (55 percent)."
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"More than seven in ten (72) percent white evangelical Protestants and nearly six in ten (58 percent) white mainline Protestants say American culture and way of life has changed for the worse since the 1950s. Roughly six in ten white Catholics (58 percent) agree with their fellow white Christians that American culture has changed for the worse since the 1950s."
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“The question of whether American culture has gone downhill since the 1950s divides Americans overall, with a majority (53 percent) saying it has changed mostly for the worse, compared to 46 percent who say it has changed mostly for the better. But we can see stark cleavages by race and religion."
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But it's about the economy — always. It's always about the price of eggs:
In his book The End of White Christian America, Robert P. Jones notes (pp. 86-7) that Public Religion Research Institute surveyed Americans in 2015 to ask, “Since the 1950s, do you think American culture and way of life has mostly changed for the better, or has it mostly changed for the worse?”
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https://www.prri.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PRRI-2016-American-Values-Survey.pdf
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"Over the last decade, many white Christians have not just selfishly supported a dangerous, narcissistic man who promised to restore their waning influence; they have now willingly blessed the advent of a new American fascism that threatens our democratic future. They are principally responsible for Trump’s rise and return to power—and for everything that is coming for all of us in its wake."
What a shameful legacy.
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"Today we are seeing similar uses of the Orthodox Christian churches in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Catholic Church in Viktor Orbán’s so-called 'illiberal democracy' in Hungary—contemporary models both Trump and white evangelical leaders have praised."
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"Most disturbingly, this time, white Christians, who once proudly called themselves 'values voters,' knew exactly who and what they were voting for. …
Nearly a century ago, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi movement coopted the German Evangelical Church."
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"According to the 2024 National Election Pool exit polls, 8 in 10 (81%) white evangelicals once again declared their allegiance to Trump, as did 60% of white Catholics and similar numbers of white non-evangelical Protestants. (Note: While there are no publicly available exit poll numbers for white non-evangelical Protestants, pre-election polling from PRRI suggests 6 in 10 once again supported Trump)."