Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Trump, Cruz, & Dominionism: Some Christian Right Leaders Fear a Crack-Up

The 2016 Republican presidential campaign has transformed American politics, likely forever. Everyone is making adjustments, but two recent illuminating episodes suggest that some Christian Right leaders are finding the changes to be unusually awkward and challenging.

The Christian Right, as a voting bloc, has never united behind a single candidate during the Republican presidential primaries (with the exception of Ronald Reagan’s and George W. Bush’s unopposed second-term races). Still, we tend to forget that the movement has never been monolithic and that there have always been political tensions between rival candidates and factions.

But the factional tensions are different this year. And there are two main reasons for this....
http://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/04/25/trump-cruz-dominionism-some-christian-right-leaders-fear-a-crack-up/#sthash.CJ2LMo71.mVaN04Ex.dpbs


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