"There was no doubt at all. And it just didn't make any difference. And so I think that's like the big picture."

White Christians own the Trump presidency, its corruption, its manifold cruelties, its attacks on immigrants and racial minorities and LGBTQ people, its lethal lies about vaccines and medical research, its war crimes, its destruction of USAID and the resulting deaths of millions of children.

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"There was no doubt at all. And it just didn't make any difference. And so I think that's like the big picture."

White Christians own the Trump presidency, its corruption, its manifold cruelties, its attacks on immigrants and racial minorities and LGBTQ people, its lethal lies about vaccines and medical research, its war crimes, its destruction of USAID and the resulting deaths of millions of children.

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"And 6 in 10 white Catholics have supported Trump every time he has been on the ticket. And it's been very, very steady. So you might think, okay, in 2016, maybe people were giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe they had voted Republican all their lives, and so it was a kind of knee-jerk thing. But by this last election in 2024, everybody knew what they were voting for."

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Jones answers,

"Well, I know. So everybody keeps saying, OK, well, white evangelicals, right, 8 in 10 support him is true. And in the last election it was 85 percent of white evangelical Christians. But I think the thing that you look at the numbers, what everybody's forgetting is, is that 6 in 10 white non-evangelical Protestants supported Trump every time he's been on the ticket."

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"Now, what do I mean by that? And that is that, you know, what we see is that every time Donald Trump has been on the ticket, it has been white Christians that have overwhelmingly supported him. And everybody knows, I think by now, the kind of one stat people can quote is like 8 in 10 white evangelicals."

Jonathan Hartgrove replies: "But you keep saying white Christians."

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Robert P. Jones and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove talk about Trump and where his support comes from: Jones says,

"So how do we end up with this authoritarian president that we have and the MAGA takeover of one of our two political parties? And there's really only one answer to that question, right? And that is white Christians have allowed this to happen."

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