What do Donald Trump and the late Billy Graham have in common? Well, I published something about them this year. Trump, I wrote in a review of John Fea's BELIEVE ME, "is the Christian right reductio ad absurdum." And, to think, folks were once amazed that so many evangelicals saw the religiously lackadaisical Reagan as their political savior! Of Graham, I averred, "There is a reason why historians struggle to decide whether Graham was a forerunner of the Christian Right or what the Christian Right was implicitly rebuking. He was a bit of both." This, I still believe. Still, it’s worth noting that the line from Billy to Donald runs through Franklin. So, the two have that in common, as well. – Steven P. Miller

Here’s the Fea review: https://www.christiancentury.org/revi...

And the Graham reflection: https://religionandpolitics.org/2018/...