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Herdsmen torched churches, and killed farmers, who were usually, but not exclusively Christians, producing images that horrified evangelical leaders in America, moved by a modern-day story of Christian persecution.

Given the size and dynamism of the evangelical vote, this has clear implications for U.S. foreign policy, and the backlash from the media and opinion elites has been fierce.

Cold plungers tend to speak in the evangelical tone of the convert.

Political context matters: Vance’s comment reflects the influence of American evangelical and Christian nationalist politics.

Vance was raised as an evangelical in a chaotic and sometimes deprived upbringing that he described in his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."