The term "Christian nationalist" has been used as a slur in conservative evangelical communities. But more recently you see people owning it and kind of, you know, reclaiming the term. This is about like a muscular Christianity and we're going to take America back for their perception of Christian values.
Why we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of American evangelicalism.
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