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Some evangelicals believe that the end of the world will be heralded by the Rapture, when millions of Christians will disappear from the earth and a time of great tribulations will begin. We reached peak Rapture-mania in American culture around the turn of the Millennium, when the Left Behind books were still selling millions of copies but before Nicolas Cage had been tapped to play a leading role in one of the film adaptations. But in the era of Donald Trump, religious extremists have begun to imagine a different sort of cosmic endgame—one that they intend to take an active role in bringing about. Matthew D. Taylor joins Martyn Wendell Jones to break down the relationship of MAGA and religious extremism, and to discuss how a new mood among politicized evangelicals is changing the way they view the end times. Read More at The Bulwark: Preorder Matthew D. Taylor's Book:
