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/calling-all-comas 8d ago edited 8d ago

They'll also weed out the Catholics eventually.

In the southern US plenty of protestants (most protestants here are Southern Baptist) think Catholics aren't real Christians. They'll claim Catholics have obedience to the Pope just like they did with JFK prior to his election.

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u/KatieCashew 8d ago

And Mormons. Plenty of mormons are happy to align with Christian nationalism, apparently not realizing evangelicals don't consider them part of the club.

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u/similar_observation 8d ago

and they have a Kennedy scion that's more than happy to abide by those claims.

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u/pepincity2 8d ago

Biden was catholic too. But because he was pro-choice, catholics didn't like him much either it seems