Data from a 2024 report by the Public Religion Research Institute found three in 10 Americans qualified as Christian nationalism adherents or sympathizers, compared with two-thirds who qualified as skeptics or rejecters.
In an interview with PBS News Hour, Brad Onishi gave his definition of Christian nationalism as a former evangelical minister who once identified with the belief system.
“Christian nationalism is an ideology that is based around the idea that this is a Christian nation, that this was founded as a Christian nation and therefore it should be a Christian nation today and should be so in the future,” Onishi said.
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