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"[T]he contagion inside the American Church" - I find this perspective very difficult to comprehend.

I understand that David French et al. came out strongly against Trump in 2016, and that seeing him win first the nomination, and then the election, with supermajority support from evangelical voters, must have been deeply humbling and a challenge to their self-perception that they were important evangelical and conservative leaders. Trump's rise certainly constituted a major event in the life of the Republican Party and a crisis of sorts for the conservative movement. But from the perspective of the church, it was somewhere between a faint ripple and a literal non-event.

I've been part of the same evangelical church for the past twenty years. I suspect that the vast majority of congregants voted for Trump in both 2016 and 2020, some of us reluctantly, others enthusiastically. But the vast majority also likely voted for Romney, McCain, Bush, etc. White evangelicals have on balance been right-of-center and Republican leaning (though never monolithic) for decades. I can't identify anything at church that's changed in the last ten years due to Trump, and I can't point to a single person who joined or left the church because of Trump, or Trumpism, or anything of the sort. And I suspect that my experience in this regard is much more representative that that of French, Moore, etc.

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Didn't know Russell Moore was a Democrat. That explains a lot.

Why did Alberta write this book? Seems like it gives away a lot of information. Is he bragging? Does he have an ego? Does he think talking about this out loud advances the group's goals (and if so why was the group secretive from the start)?

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