Abstract
This essay examines three arguments made by anti-Trump evangelical Christians in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. By explicating the arguments from character, policy, and evangelical witness, I show how this group of minority rhetors – a minority both within American evangelicalism and within the American electorate at large – used their minority status to project a prophetic warning against the Trump candidacy and in so doing developed a rhetoric that was politically potent while remaining faithful to evangelical theology and history. Paradoxically, it was by losing the election that these anti-Trump rhetors won the opportunity to articulate clearly and forcefully an evangelical political rhetoric and an implicit policy agenda.
Highlights
Esej analizuje trzy argumenty formułowane przez Ewangelików, którzy sprzeciwiali się kandydaturze Donalda Trumpa w wyborach prezydenckich w USA w 2016 roku
I have been interested in how the rhetoric of American evangelicalism has influenced presidential discourse
Candidacy, but articulated theologically and doctrinally based reasons for their opposition. It is the rhetoric of this group of anti-Trump evangelicals that I want to examine in this essay
Summary
Evangelicals, rhetors, anti-Trump rhetoric, presidential election Ewangelicy, retorzy, retoryka atakująca Trumpa, wybory prezydenckie. Candidacy, but articulated theologically and doctrinally based reasons for their opposition It is the rhetoric of this group of anti-Trump evangelicals that I want to examine in this essay. The rhetoric, considered as a whole, articulates a evangelical Christian critique of a major party candidate, and not just any candidate but the nominee of the Republican Party, the party to which white evangelicals have been attached for the last 40 years By doing so, these evangelicals have articulated, for the first time, a wide-ranging Christian perspective that could form the basis of future political actions, especially as the composition and nature of evangelicalism in America continues to evolve. No one escaped evangelical scrutiny, which reached its apex during the presidency of Bill Clinton, amidst charges of sexual infidelity and lying to cover his transgressions It came as somewhat of a shock that early in the 2016 primary season well-known evangelical leaders endorsed or at least tolerated the candidacy of Donald Trump. I have selected these voices both because they were the most outspoken and because they all self-identify as evangelical Christians.
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