adherents

One of the most common ways for adherents to signal their commitment is to share social media posts with 4B-related hashtags, such as investment tips for women’s financial independence and photographs showcasing happily unmarried lives.

The good news is that while three in ten Americans are either Christian nationalism adherents or sympathizers, two-thirds of the country rejects this anti-democratic ideology.

Extreme hatred also creates motivational bias, which means adherents can only see evidence that supports their beliefs.

Grievance politics in general may be killing its own adherents, as researchers have shown a gap in mortality rates between Republican and Democratic counties in nine out of 10 causes of death.

Vance also wrote: “There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.”