Why Trump’s MAGA evangelicals are much worse than past 'Christian conservatives'

Why Trump’s MAGA evangelicals are much worse than past 'Christian conservatives'

Liberal Georgia-based journalist Zaid Jilani, who was raised Muslim, has a long history of criticizing the Religious Right. Jilani, back in the 1990s and 2000s, often argued that while there's nothing wrong with faith and religion, "theocracy" has no place in a constitutional democratic republic like the United States.But in an op-ed published by the New York Times on September 26, Jilani lays out some reasons why he finds 2025's MAGA Christian …