The Religious Rhetoric of Anti-Trump Evangelicals in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Journal Title: Res Rhetorica - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
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 implicite policy agenda.
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Martin Medhurst
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- DOI 10.29107/rr2017.2.1
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