May 15 program on the impact of Christian nationalism, particularly in the context of New Hampshire .
Melissa Deckman, CEO of PRRI, (Public Religion Research Institute) is a political scientist who studies the impact of gender, religion and age on public opinion and political behavior. In a recent interview with The Daily Blast, Deckman shared PRRI’s survey findings on Christian Nationalism. It offers good insight into their mindset.
“Last fall, we did a very pathbreaking survey release looking at the underpinnings of authoritarianism within the U.S. population. Not surprisingly, Christian nationalist adherents are the strongest in terms of support for a strongman. Christian nationalist adherents are folks who believe that America was founded and should remain a Christian nation, and they believe that Christians should have preferential treatment—like strongly believe this.
And if you believe that God has ordained you to be here, and if you believe that God ordains a certain design of how government should be run, the order of how society should be set up hierarchically, all those sorts of things, then the Constitution and due process and the norms of a democracy are far less important. So those individuals are among the strongest supporters of Donald Trump. We find that pretty consistently. And of course, I think it’s not a coincidence that a lot of Trump’s agenda—not all of it certainly, but a lot of it—is driven by Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation, which is a longstanding conservative organization. From pronatalist policies to banning reproductive rights to getting rid of the rights of transgender Americans to getting rid of DEI initiatives—all of these are of accord that harken back to some Christian nationalist viewpoints.”*
You can register here for the May 15 program with the New Hampshire Council of Churches.
*Interview with Melissa Deckman. From THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent: “He Was Pissed”: Trump’s Vile New Threat over Tariffs Takes Scary Turn, Apr 30, 2025
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