Cheryl, it is interesting how this "cancer," racism, has existed so long in this country. We went through Reconstruction, then Jim Crow, the KKK and now MAGA/KKK. The present day Republican Party is now racist to its core. In fairness to the Evangelicals, while they want to establish Christianity (their version) as the official U.S. religion, many are still motivated to support Trump by pure, unadulterated racism. Perhaps Marx was right: Religion is the "opiate of the masses." Marx argues that religion is an ideological tool that legitimates and defends the interests of the dominant, wealthy classes in the population. It does so in part by placating the poor and exploited classes. Thomas Frank explains this in "What's the Matter with Kansas?"