If you’re befuddled by all that Christian support for Trump, a seemingly un-Christian man, Netflix’s new docuseries The Family should resolve your confusion
Photo: Netflix Why are the people most concerned with traditional family values so committed to Donald Trump? That question generates new headlines every time the president faces a new scandal. Trump has been married three times, after all. He doesn’t know anything about the Bible. 21 women have accused him of sexual assault. But white evangelicals hold fast to him through it all.
Most evangelicals have nothing to do with the Family. Even so, its theology is relatively mainstream, as I’ve discovered not only through covering the Christian right, but through my own upbringing and education in the evangelical world. The idea that God ordains a person’s place in the world is not unique to Vereide or his successor, and it has pernicious side effects.
We see now the rise of far-right authoritarian governments worldwide. The Family and Fellowship associates have been really active in a lot of these countries. Should we assign them any credit for that phenomenon? Even if someone has only watched the series and hasn’t read Jeff’s books, it’s hard to avoid that we’re talking about a very male organization. How do they perceive masculinity, how does it feature in their theology, and how does it influence their relationship to power?
Sharlet: Jesse made the right choice in not focusing on the homoeroticism of it, but it’s pretty pervasive, right down to former Senator Sam Brownback, who’s now Trump’s ambassador for international religious freedom, telling me that his prayer cell would discuss their sexual feelings. A bunch of congressmen getting together to talk about how they struggle with masturbation, you can say that’s silly and goofy and innocuous.
Trump really does embody so much about the Family. He’s got this swaggering masculinity. He’s the Ur-capitalist. But I wonder if the Family sees Trump as a way to break things down, to the point where a more traditional politician like Josh Hawley of Missouri, or Tom Cotton of Arkansas —— or Pence. Someone who will reorder society in the way that the Family wants.
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