I just read American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism, there was a lot about the early history I didn’t know about, like how it started mostly because WW1 basically validated the beliefs of a lot of people that thought the world was ending soon, and how a lot of them were actually pacifists and not christian nationalists, but around WW2 evangelicals became what we know them as today, although there was temporarily an active left-wing faction during the american civil rights era. It delves into just how much they become one of if not the strongest interest group around the Reagan era, and how oddly it must’ve felt to have a president that thought the world was gonna end, that was the craziest part to me I didn’t know that a central tenet of fundamentalism and evangelicals is that they’re actively waiting for the world to end, and making decisions around that, kinda reminded me of a, not totally illogical, tendency of some internet leftists to predict a kind of final crisis which ushers in socialism in our lifetimes.

The book end during obama’s second term, so it doesn’t delve into how the movement is currently doing, and personally I hear a lot less about them that I did during trump 1. So what do people here think, has it all been subsumed into trumpism? Or has it been subsumed into zionism, with the original christian message becoming secondary? Is it spreading or decreasing inside america?

More importantly to me, is it actually spreading OUTSIDE north america? Part of why I started reading this was because I heard that it was, mostly to south america, and the overly emotional tone and messianism of american fundamentalists reminded me of the far-right here in portugal (which isn’t protestant).