This Viral Video Comparing Traditional Christianity To “MAGA Christianity” Has Trump Supporters Mad

The fierce debate over Hamilton’s video is a microcosm for what’s been happening in American Christianity for at least the last 50 years, said the Rev. Brandan Robertson, a pastor of Sunnyside Reformed Church in New York City, and the author of Queer & Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and our Place at the Table.

“The religious right was formed to use conservative Christianity as a tool to help right wing politicians gain power and enact policies that preserve white, conservative Christian privilege at the expense of everyone else,” Robertson said in an email interview with HuffPost. 

The MAGA movement, Robertson said, is just the “full revelation” of what the religious right has dreamt of doing for decades.

“They have been remarkably effective in their strategy to conflate their values with Christian orthodoxy and have convinced a considerable number of American Christians that to be a Christian is to support right-wing policies,” he said. 

Interestingly, most Americans don’t consider President Trump to be particularly religious, with fewer than half in a 2020 Pew survey saying they think he’s Christian. Raised Presbyterian, Trump now calls himself a “non-denominational Christian.”

Still, he has dedicated support among white evangelical Christians. In a Pew survey conducted after his first 100 days in office in April, 72% of white evangelical Protestants approve of his job as president.