The Far-Right Christian Quest for Power: ‘We Are Seeing Them Emboldened’

Political candidates on the fringe mix religious fervor with conspiracy theories, even calling for the end of the separation of church and state.

That’s what it’s about. The whole Trump-Christian thing, it was never about whether Trump was a “good” Christian or not; he promised them, in Iowa, in the same speech that he said “I could shoot a man on 5th Ave. …” that under him “Christianity will have power,” and that is all they remembered from that speech, not shooting a man on 5th Ave.