The American Catholic Right in the Making of US Christian Populism and Its European Incursion, pp. 47-76

Blandine Chelini-Pont (1, 2, 3)

1 LID2MS - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Droit des Médias et Mutations Sociales
2 GSRL - Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités
3 IDA - Institut des Amériques

What has been the specific Catholic right's contribution to American Christianism under the Trump presidency? It provided an important ideological foundation for Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns and participated in his religious policy during his term, focused on religious freedom’s defense, and elevated the conservative moral and social views in the executive branch and especially the judiciary. Alongside the Catholic Westerners fearing American decline, another intransigent faction of the Catholic right shares Catholic Westerners’ Manichean vision of the political field. It helped to spread a growing Christianist trend to Europe, with the help of inter-Christian and Catholic conservative networks.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Blandine Chelini-Pont. The American Catholic Right in the Making of US Christian Populism and Its European Incursion, pp. 47-76. Catholics and US Politics after the 2020 Elections. Biden Chases the Swing Vote. Mary Gayte, Blandine Chelini-Pont and Mark Rozell, Palgrave McMillan, 2022,, 2022, 978-3030822118. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-82212-5_3⟩. ⟨hal-03936252⟩