During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump spoke at a gathering of conservative Protestants, imploring them to vote for him “just this time.”
In “four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” he said.
As a scholar of religion and public life for the past 30 years, I had an immediate gut reaction: Such a blanket term is out of place. The diversity of Christian traditions, beliefs, communities and denominations is far too vast to lump together as “my beautiful Christians.”
