
‘Give it up if you believe in Donald Trump!’ Louder cheer,” Goldberg reported.īut these cultural forces predate Trump. “‘Give it up if you believe in Jesus!’ a man yelled near me. “The conflation of Trump and Jesus was a common theme at the rally,” Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in a dispatch for The Atlantic.


Christian nationalism might explain why, while white nationalist symbols such as the Confederate flag and the Gadsden flag were flown at the Capitol on Wednesday, so too were crosses, protest signs quoting scripture, and banners with messages like “Jesus is my savior.
