About 80% of MAGA is Christian. MAGA is overwhelmingly Christian, but it is religiously diverse within Christianity, and a bit reflective of America’s Christian population…
Religious Makeup of MAGA…
- Evangelical Protestants (primarily white): 42% The largest group, forming the core of MAGA support.
- Catholics: 21% Includes growing shares of both white and Hispanic Catholics.
- Mainline (non-evangelical) Protestants: 14% A smaller but notable portion.
- Other Christians (e.g., Latter-day Saints/Mormons, Orthodox): 3-5% Minor but present, with Mormons around 2%.
- Non-Christian religions (e.g., Jewish, Muslim, other faiths): 5-7% Small overall, though some shifts occurred (e.g., limited gains among certain Muslim or Jewish voters).
- Religiously unaffiliated (nones, atheists, agnostics): 5-10% A minority, with only about 5% explicitly atheist/agnostic in some analyses.
The legacy media, and the Democrats (alas, I repeat myself), would have us believe that MAGA is strictly White Evangelical Christians. And while White Evangelicals do make up the core of MAGA, they do not make up the majority, nor do they define it. Furthermore, the religious makeup of MAGA is strikingly similar (not identical but similar) to the religious makeup of Christianity in the United States…
Christian Makeup of the United States…
- Evangelical Protestants: 23%.
- Mainline Protestants: 11%.
- Historically Black Protestants: 5%.
- Catholics: 19%.
- Latter-day Saints (Mormons): 2%.
- Orthodox Christians: 1%.
- Other Christians (including Jehovah’s Witnesses, nonspecific Christians, and smaller groups): 2%.
Technically, Catholics have a slightly larger share of MAGA (21%) than they do of American Christianity as a whole (19%). And among those Catholics who are part of MAGA, they tend to be the more conservative and devout type, attending Mass more frequently, and engaging in more regular prayer and devotion.
Weekly Mass Attendance Among U.S. Catholics…
- Overall U.S. Catholics: 24-29% attend Mass weekly
- Trump-Supporting Catholics (MAGA): 66% attend Mass weekly
So for Catholics, it all comes down to Mass attendance. If they’re going to Mass weekly, there is a high probability (66% chance) they’re MAGA. This makes sense, considering one of the pope’s own brothers, Louis Prevost, coming from a devoutly Catholic family in the United States, is MAGA. Now, this is not to be misconstrued as to suggest the pope himself supports MAGA. The pope is above political parties and movements. Rather, what it demonstrates is that MAGA is a strong political expression of American Catholicism, pulling in even one of the brothers of the pope himself. Of course, it should be noted that Vice President J.D. Vance is obviously MAGA, and he’s a devout Catholic too, with regular Mass attendance. The bottom line for Catholics is this. In the United States, the more seriously devout a Catholic is, the more likely said Catholic is to be part of MAGA. That’s a stone-cold fact that cannot be denied. For every five MAGA supporters out there, one of them is likely a devout Catholic.
For Evangelicals, it’s a bit different and a bit more predictable. Evangelicals, on the whole, tend to attend church services in higher percentages than Catholics do. So for them, MAGA membership is almost a perfect parallel to church attendance…
While Evangelicals make up the core of MAGA, they are not the majority. In fact, no one religion constitutes the majority of MAGA. To get a majority, you would have to start putting groups together. You could put Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants together, to get a slim majority of 56%. Or you could put Evangelicals and Catholics together to get a larger majority of 63%. If you lump all the Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants and Catholics together, that would constitute 77% of MAGA.
If any one thing could be said about MAGA religiously, it seems to be made of a majority of people who take Christianity seriously. They’re generally more pious, devout and orthodox than the general population of Christians in the United States. The facts present themselves in stark contrast to the image painted by the legacy media and Democrats (alas, I repeat myself again), which portray MAGA as far-right, religious zealots, of some strange cult that worships Trump as some sort of divine, messianic figure. That’s not reality. That’s propaganda. And it’s not even close to accurate.
Shane Schaetzel is an author of Catholic books and he is an Evangelical convert to the Catholic Church. His articles have been featured on LifeSiteNews, The Remnant Newspaper, Forward in Christ, and Catholic Online. You can read Shane’s books at ShaneSchaetzel.Com
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