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The evangelicals’ militant masculinity
Kristin Kobes du Mez about Jesus and John Wayne
In the 2016 election voted 81% of the evangelical voters for Donald Trump. Many wondered why such a large percentage of the evangelicals voted for a candidate who’s lifestyle and personality isn’t in accordance with the Bible. According to Kristin Kobes du Mez, professor of History at Calvin University, that huge suppurt for Trump isn’t a surprise. On the contrary!
In the opinion of the evangelicals, Trump embodies who an American leader has to be. In the last century the evangelicals ‘evangelized’ the ideal of a militant masculinity. Donald Trump is the ideal example of that militant masculinity the evangelicals idealized. That evangelical ideal of militant masculinity tells the man he is the head of his family: his wife and children are submitted to him. He leads his wife and children powerful and is willing to fight…
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