BigEva Has Lost Its War On Christian Republicans

In 2016, prominent Christians said Donald Trump killed the "Religious Right." It's never been more clear that they were wrong.

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by Megan Basham
September 28, 2025

In 2016, Russell Moore, then head of the political lobbying arm of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, wrote in The Washington Post that Donald Trump had “snuffed out” the “Religious Right.”

Support for Trump, Moore argued, had so discredited the old moral majority establishment that the next generation of evangelicals would throw off the misguided notion that they should engage in political activism to ensure that the nation’s laws and customs reflect Christian values. “They are not replicating themselves in the next generation,” Moore said with blithe assurance of the James Dobsons and Jerry Falwells of yesteryear. “The evangelical next generation rejects their way.”

Instead, Moore said, younger Christians would be so put off by the partisa…