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Brazilian evangelicals, swinging hard to the right, could put a Trump-like populist in the presidency

  • Written by Peter David Arnould Wood, Postdoctoral Fellow in Demography, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Brazilian evangelicals, swinging hard to the right, could put a Trump-like populist in the presidency

Even as the overall population of Christians in the United States declines, evangelicals have become an energetic right-wing voting base, helping President Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016.

In Brazil, where Pentecostal and other charismatic Christian churches are rapidly gaining members, evangelical voters are only beginning to flex their...

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