There’s much to be said about this, but this voting breakdown by religion seems important:
In the last decade or so, any time White Christian evangelicals comprise more than twenty percent of the electorate, Democrats underperform (even if they win). When the ‘red wave’ of 2022 failed to materialize, White evangelicals were only 17.5% of the vote.
That said, there are obvious ways to drive a wedge in the Republican coalition, and their reliance on White evangelicals is one way to do so–provided Democrats do something about the media environment.
Something to remember: in the 2000s, even though New Atheists went off the rails, the main reason they were liked by the left for a while was that they were very good at undermining right wing Christians’ legitimacy and the public’s sense that they were primus inter pares. Might need to revisit that.
mikethemadbiologist
The obvious answer to electing more democrats is for the Jews to increase their numbers. Get to making babies and start proselytizing for G-d’s sake! 😉
Given that they are able to distinguish “White Born Again / Evangelical” in this graphic, I wish they would actually break apart “Protestant or Other Christian” from the beginning, separating those from the mainstream historical sects like Episcopalian, Anglican (the splinter groups from the ’00s breakup), Methodist, Presbyter, classic Baptist, etc.
The country as a whole needs a better understanding that these Evangelicals not only are not ‘all’ Christians, they aren’t even a majority of them, and finally realize their arrogance in speaking as if they are.
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