A God Gap Driving a Revolution from Conservative to the Far Right in the United States—With Significance for Europe?

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Politische Vierteljahresschrift Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1007/s11615-023-00509-8

Gert Pickel, Susanne Pickel

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Abstract For some time now, the Christian right in the United States has sought proximity to the Republican Party. However, it is only since Donald Trump’s presidency that the central desires of the Christian right for a moral change have been fulfilled. This hope has existed since the 1980s and has been expressed in far-above-average voting behavior, especially of white evangelicals and Pentecostals for the Republicans. Thus, the Republicans’ focus on moral issues increasingly links them to the image of white Christian nationalism. This stance opposes transgender issues, homosexuality, abortion, and critical race theory and is preoccupied with America’s founding era and racist structures. Favored by the bipolar electoral system and driven by a politics that differentiates between good and evil, a political polarization is establishing itself that leaves hardly any room for compromise. These developments are not limited to the United States but are beginning to migrate globally, as recent incidents in Brazil, Serbia, and Russia show. The United States can be seen as a prototypical case of a particular form of transformation of a democracy into a polarized political system. A certain understanding of religion plays just as much a role in this as the rejection of plurality, especially at the level of sexual and gender diversity.

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一段时间以来，美国的基督教右翼一直在寻求接近共和党。然而，直到唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)担任总统以来，基督教右翼要求道德变革的核心愿望才得以实现。这种希望自上世纪80年代以来就存在，并在远高于平均水平的投票行为中得到了体现，尤其是白人福音派和五旬节派选民支持共和党。因此，共和党人对道德问题的关注越来越多地将他们与白人基督教民族主义的形象联系在一起。这一立场反对跨性别问题、同性恋、堕胎和批判种族理论，并专注于美国的建国时代和种族主义结构。在两极选举制度的支持下，在善恶区分的政治驱动下，政治两极分化正在形成，几乎没有任何妥协的余地。这些发展并不局限于美国，而是开始向全球蔓延，正如最近在巴西、塞尔维亚和俄罗斯发生的事件所表明的那样。美国可以被看作是民主向两极分化政治体制转变的一种特殊形式的典型案例。在这一点上，对宗教的某种理解与拒绝多元化，尤其是在性和性别多样性的层面上，发挥着同样重要的作用。

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