[nwatson]

Religion is increasingly a political signifier in the USA now. Many MAGA Trump supporters who claim to be Evangelical don't even go to church on any regular basis. "Secular Evangelicalism" is huge in the USA South.

This trend started with William Branham (progenitor of Latter Rain cult, The Message cult, prosperity gospel, healing-campaign revivalism ... leading to the current New Apostolic Reformation) and his mentor Roy E. Davis (Klan leader) in the 1930s. They started a political white supremacist cult with a religious bent. These two spawned a plethora of "heretical" movements still going strong today, a fusion of supremacist, new age ideas from the late 1800s, anti-communist, and evangelical/pentecostal ideas.

(Refer to the "Leaving The Message" YouTube channel. These guys, Branham and Davis, spawned the hydra.)

Edit: clarity, additional points