Religious Right, Still Not Dead

Super Tuesday and the success of Donald Trump among evangelicals have caused otherwise sensible observers to once again declare the religious right to be dead. As in the past, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

Religion scholar Mark Silk claims that the plurality of support from evangelical Christians for the thrice married, twice divorced, Donald Trump on Super Tuesday was just a mercy killing because the Religious Right “was moribund,” and had been “an invalid for a decade.”