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by ceejayoz 8 days ago
The reason for the support matters.

A lot of them think support for Israel leads to the apocalypse and Jesus’s return. It doesn’t end well for the Jews in that story.

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Among USA evangelicals, support for Israel (and specifically the country’s belligerence) has notably little to do with Judaism itself or the Jewish people.
Now you're confusing maga with evangelicals which are very different parts of the party. Evangelicals have largely lost influence in a post Roe world.

Trump had to cater to them in his first term but, since he's taken over the party, they're in the backseat.

Evangelicals themselves recently brought us into this “post Roe world!” Their influence appears to be at its highest level ever.
Trump got evangelicals to vote for him because he promised to appoint supreme court justices who would overturn roe.

Evangelicals, as a group, no longer have a cohesive political goal. They don't have influence because the collective isn't asking for anything.

Their influence was all based on being a large group of single issue voters you could get on your side with little effort.