Understanding the "Regimevangelical" Phenomenon

The political and social landscape is changing. Churches and their leaders are adapting, but not in the ways you might expect. Let's try to understand the phenomenon of the "regimevangelical."

74. Understanding the "Regimevangelical" Phenomenon

There is a lot of turbulence in the Christian community these days over politics. The political landscape is changing and has been doing so in earnest since Donald Trump made his descent down the elevator on June 16, 2015. Things have not been the same since. Changes were happening beneath the surface before then, but that seems to be the demarcation line when people started to pay attention. Donald Trump shook politics up in ways many of us did not think possible. It was naïve to think he might actually manage to “drain the swamp.” But when he didn’t and couldn’t, it set many of us to work trying to understand why he couldn’t do it. Some of it was on Trump. He drove the left and the democrats into a near frenzy. But he was undisciplined and not prepared for the fight he was about to face. He also revealed something that had, up to this point, largely remained hidden and opaque: the “deep state.” It turns out this was not the fevered imaginations of conspiracy theorists, ra…