Christian nationalists are a small and dangerous group with outsized power

Public Religion Research Institute CEO Robert Jones shared new data this week that shines light on the disturbing popularity of Christian nationalism — summed up as a belief that America's national identity is interwoven with Christianity — in regions of the country controlled by Republicans. 

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it was a clear sign that the upper echelon of American legal power was delivering for evangelical extremists. And to underscore how dire things have become two years on, when the Alabama Supreme Court decision classified embryos used for in vitro fertilization as human beings, it wasn’t lost on critics that the chief justice invoked Bible verses in his concurring opinion and has been open in his support for extremely theocratic views.