Donald Trump puts a finer point on his old rhetoric on immigration, telling a crowd, “if you don’t like our religion ... you are not getting in.”
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he stands outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Square from the White House in Washington on June 1, 2020. Donald Trump is not understood to be a particularly religious person. When he launched his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination, he would insist that the Bible was his favorite book and seeming as though he’d crossed an uncrossable line.
“They want to come and they want to bring — the same people that are shooting rockets at Israel, they want to come into the United States,” Trump said. “I don’t think a lot of good things are going to happen.” This, too, is not true; as former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley said in response to DeSantis’s comments, American immigration policy includes recognition that “you can separate civilians from terrorists.
This is not sophisticated political rhetoric; quite the opposite. It’s demagoguery. But it is also revealing. After all, what is “our religion” in this nation built by people seeking freedom of religious expression? We all know the answer, but let’s explore the question as though we don’t.of American religious identity shows that about two-thirds of Americans are Christian. About a quarter are religiously nonaffiliated — most of them not religious at all.
This is all Trump’s getting at. “Our religion” — the religion of those in the room at his event — is right-wing, often evangelical Christianity. In 2020, the density of White Christians in a county was a very good indicator of who voters in the county supported.
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