Goldberg: Christian right in decline, it s taking America with it
Michelle Goldberg, New York Times
July 15, 2021
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An evangelical and backer of President George W. Bush prays in 2004. Today, white evangelicals are shrinking as a share of the population.Associated Press file photo
The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right’s influence in America. White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country. “They had a president who claimed to be one of their own, he had a testimony, talked in evangelical terms,” said Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute and author of the 2016 book “The End of White Christian America.”
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