white Christian nationalism is not synonymous with white evangelicalism per se, even if there is considerable overlap. Though we may not be able to say that for much longer, as white evangelicalism becomes more and more synonymous with Republican voting and reactionary politics. To be sure, some evangelical leaders publicly distanced themselves from Trump in 2016. Others did so later. But many others not only supported Trump that year; they doubled down on Trump in 2020, arguing that he’d kept his promises to defend religious liberty and appoint conservative justices.
