Paula White, televangelist and Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office, offers an entirely unorthodox form of Christianity. Yet she represents much of President Donald Trump’s religious voter base. With the right family policies, this would not be too hard to fix.
Trends in religion usually help color Republican election success, and this past year was no exception. Partisanship between regular and irregular religious attendees has been deepening for years. By now, Trump’s election results map is nearly identical to a map of U.S. religious attendance from political scientist Ryan Burge.
Marriage and parenting tend to turn people a bit more conservative and religious — for some reason beyond mere selection into the institutions. Those families end up moving to already dark-red states as part of an observed “blue state exodus,” put off partly by liberal politics and…
