Populist Parties Adopt Christian Identity

A growing number of populist and insurgent parties are formally integrating Christian advisers, rhetoric, and symbolic practice into their messaging and internal governance. This is not merely candidate religiosity but an organized attempt to use religious identity as a durable political coalition device. — If populist parties systematically adopt religious identity, secular party coalitions, church–state expectations, and voter alignment patterns will shift, altering national electoral maps and culture‑war dynamics.