The Perplexing Postelection Pessimism of White Evangelicals

Some in this demographic view Trump’s win not as a relief but only as a temporary reprieve against a rapidly secularizing America.

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Pastor Robert Uhls preaches to his virtual members on Facebook Live during an ‘Election Eve Service of Prayer,’ supporting Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump at Suncoast Liberty Fellowship in Largo, Fla., November 4, 2024.

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White Evangelicals were the strongest voting demographic for Donald Trump. Exit polls say their support increased to 82 percent from 76 percent in 2020. White Evangelicals also decreased from 28 percent of the electorate in 2020 to 23 percent in 2024.

But this win does not necessarily evince optimism.

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Mark Tooley

Mark Tooley is the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy.

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