{"id":8565,"date":"2019-12-25T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/02\/the-new-yorker-what-it-would-take-for-evangelicals-to-turn-on-trump\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:24","slug":"the-new-yorker-what-it-would-take-for-evangelicals-to-turn-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-new-yorker-what-it-would-take-for-evangelicals-to-turn-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"What it would take for evangelicals to turn on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/on-religion\/what-it-would-take-for-evangelicals-to-turn-on-president-trump?utm_social-type=owned&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_medium=social\">a column about evangelical<\/a> voters, Michael Luo, editor of NewYorker.com, quotes <a class=\"ArticleBody__link___1FS03\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15570274.2019.1643991?journalCode=rfia20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a study<\/a> by Jim Guth, professor of political science at Furman University, &#8220;on the prevalence of populist traits among white evangelicals, including distrust of political institutions, preference for strong leadership, and commitment to majority rule.&#8221; In the column, Luo says, &#8220;Guth finds that these qualities\u2014characteristics that lead to support for populist leaders like Trump\u2014permeate white evangelicalism. It is a disquieting conclusion and suggests that evangelical support for Trump may be far more deeply entrenched than previously understood.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a column about evangelical voters, Michael Luo, editor of NewYorker.com, quotes a study by Jim Guth, professor of political science at Furman University, &#8220;on the prevalence of populist traits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":8566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}