The Politics of Hate: How the Christian Right Darkened America's Political Soul [Hardcover]

Christian Right organizations have darkened America’s political soul by strategically constructing a theological justification for hate. Angelia Wilson supports this claim inThe Politics of Hateby detailing how Christian Right organizations have pushed voters toward polarization and primed religious conservatives to support Donald Trump.

Based on original research, participant observation at events, and data collection, Wilson follows the money to provide a meticulous analysis of how Christian Right political elites operate. She traces the evolutionary development of the Christian Right’s political professionalism and their allegiance to a grand vision that articulates a grammar of war to fulfill their Biblical worldview.

The Politics of Hatedemonstrates how Christian Right organizations educate and train networks of soldiers to tactically engage the enemy in local, state, and national legal and political battles. Wilson carefully documents their history of co-belligerency, their strategies of political warfare, and, importantly, the impact of this war that has, over the past fifty years, forever changed American politics.

Engaging.... For much of the book, Wilson acts as an impartial and careful chronicler of this [religious right] scene, relaying her time attending an endless array of megachurches, anti-LGBTQ rallies, and fire-and-brimstone sermons. Yet she opens and concludes the book on a polemical note warning against the rising tide of religious fundamentalism.Jacobin

[D]eeply researched and insightful.... [Wilson's] book offers an in-depth study of the strategic alliances and activist tactics of a set of interwoven Christian right institutions.... Wilsons analysis is strongest where she illuminates these intentionally enmeshed leadership and funding cultures, arguing that close strategic coordinating was a crucial factor in the Christian rights coup de grl!