RNS – McCain’s civil religion versus Trump’s

„The day of John McCain’s funeral, New Yorker staff writer Vinson Cunningham characterized the late senator as “high priest” of “an American religion” and Donald Trump as “its chief heretic.” More precisely, McCain can be seen as an exemplar of what the late sociologist Robert Bellah identified as the American civil religion, Trump as promoter-in-chief of its darker alternative.”

http://religionnews.com/2018/09/04/mccains-civil-religion-versus-trumps