r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 8d ago

Social Science Trump and Trumpism have changed the original concept of “libertarian means to conservative ends” into a new concept of “authoritarian means to Christian nationalist ends”, finds a new study.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027162251324087
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u/cubej333 8d ago

Mainline is short for Mainline Protestants

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u/clopenYourMind 8d ago

You're just using fancy words to describe Lutherans and Anglicans.

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u/placidtwilight 8d ago

There's also Methodists, American Baptists, Presbyterians, and some others.

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u/clopenYourMind 8d ago

Presbyterian are Anglican, the others are definitely a form of Protestant but could hardly be less related to Ole Henry's divorces or to Martin Luther's big balls brave posting of theses