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Did the GOP radicalize evangelicals, or did evangelicals radicalize the GOP?

I am torn and need some help.

Shankar Narayan
6 min readNov 22, 2021
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Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

It's a difficult one. But, evolutionary evidence says egg.

Did the GOP radicalize evangelicals, or did evangelicals radicalize the GOP?

This one is a bit more difficult than the first one.

I think evangelical Christians started the GOP radicalization process in 1979 when they used "abortion as a rallying cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term." Now the GOP is using abortion and culture wars to radicalize the evangelical base.

The results were published on January 6th

The Jan 6th Save America march that ended up swallowing the lives of many police officers started with a prayer.

"Jesus Saves" sign sat right next to gallows built by the mob.

Trump's longtime spiritual adviser and former White House adviser, the Florida televangelist Paula White, called on God to "give us a holy boldness in this hour."

"In the video shot by a New Yorker reporter during the siege, the fur-hatted Jacob Chansley — known as the "QAnon shaman" for his alignment with the conspiracy…

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.

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