The passing of an era "And what I think is going on is that many — the anxieties that many particularly white conservative Christians are feeling is being driven by this real sense of loss and grief of this cultural world that they and their ancestors built and that used to hold sway in the center of American culture, and is now really passing from the scene." "And I think, to understand Trump supporters and the grief, the anger that we see from them and why he’s been able to appeal to them, really, his appeal to him has not been that he’s one of them. His appeal to them has been this — to appeal to the sense of nostalgia and loss and grief. And when he says make America great again, he’s saying, I’m going to restore power to the Christian churches, says things like, I’m — we can be — we’re going to say merry Christmas again in this country. We’re not going to be saying happy holidays. Those are all about kind of big cultural shifts that I think are driving a lot of anxiety among conservative white Christians today." http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/authors-eulogy-white-christian-america/
