Roughly 3 in ten Americans adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalist beliefs
This is based on a new measure we developed to identify people who believe in Christian nationalism by assessing their agreement with these five statements and sorting them into one of the four groups above:
We find that Christian nationalist beliefs are overwhelming among two key groups: white evangelical Protestants, and Republicans:
Separate from the attitudes used to create the scale, we see a massive preference for the US as a Christian nation among CN adherents:
White CN adherents in particular have some pretty radical views on systemic racism and racial justice:
CN adherents are almost SEVEN TIMES more likely than rejecters to say Americans may need to resort to violence to save their vision of the country:
Really loving the insane emergent story lines that play out in @CrusaderKings III. Scene: my tiny kingdom in southern Ireland, the year 1096.
My daughter and best friend is my spymaster hard at work investigating the murder of her mother and sister-in-law when she contracts the plague! I call in the best doctor to try a risky treatment. She loses a leg in the process.
A couple weeks later, she's at death's door when she informs me of a shocking secret - my wife (her step-mother) is dabbling in witchcraft and attempting to commune with demons! The very next day my daughter drops dead from the plague.