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The GOP's slow turn from American evangelicalism

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Julian Zelizer : Some journalists have noticed that conservative religion in America is on the back foot.

He says it's not as if Donald Trump has stopped emphasizing religion on the campaign trail.

But a different conservative movement made a place for itself in Republican Party politics in 1992 , Zelizer says.

Immigration is more Christian than the American population and religiously conservative to boot.

Donald Trump took up the Buchananite banner of anti-immigrant isolationism, joining it to the religious right by choosing Mike Pence as his running mate and pledging to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade .

The latter included post-9/11 animus against Muslims , which took hold in the Republican Party after George W. Bush left office.

In post-Roe America , MAGA is proving to be more nativist than Christian .