Half the Country Understands That Christian Nationalism is a Serious Threat

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Half the Country Understands That Christian Nationalism is a Serious Threat
By Hemant Mehta, April 3, 2019

The good news is that a new Morning Consult poll finds that nearly half of all Americans see Christian nationalism as a looming threat to our country.

The bad news is that, Jesus H. Christ, more than half the country is okay with that.

Christian nationalism is the idea that the U.S. should be a Christian nation when it comes to social and political policies. Imagine a government in which the Religious Right has more power and that’s what more than half the country wants… for some reason. More “In God We Trust.” More Muslims travel bans. More invocations. More anti-LGBTQ laws.

But take all this information with one huge caveat: The poll didn’t define the term for participants. Which means it’s possible many of those people don’t actually know what it means. Perhaps they heard “Christian” and (wrongly) thought it must be a good thing. I would think that if the poll included examples of what the term leads to, fewer people would support it.