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. . . in my research on evangelical masculinity, I have found that Trump’s leadership style aligns closely with a rugged ideal of Christian manhood championed by evangelicals for more than half a century.
As I show in my book “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,” conservative evangelicals embraced the ideal of a masculine protector in the 1960s and 1970s in order to confront the perceived threats of communism and feminism.
Salon.com. https://www.salon.com/2020/09/08/from-donald-trump-to-john-wayne-how-to-become-a-hero-of-the-christian-right_partner/ 8 September 2020.