The Democratic midterm win has The Washington Post acknowledging how some believe this is a new era for the "righteous left."
According to Associated Press, they were able to flip Congress with an "unapologetically Christian message," which was to "love your neighbor."
Meanwhile, James Talarico, of the multi-gendered God comments, was the poster child for faith-positive Democrats who offer voters a less radical façade than their Democratic Socialists peers. Virgin-birth skeptic Adam Hamilton in Kansas along with pro-abortion champion Sarah Trone Garriot and pluralist Lindsay James of Iowa also made the team in the midterms.
The AP article featured remarks denouncing evangelicals for trying to "corner the market" on Christianity and highlighted mainline candidates for keeping their Christian values while still backing "church-state separation" and seeking "common ground across religions."
Gary Bauer, president of American Values, says they joined the ranks of African American Democrats who have been touting their liberal faith for years.
"Their ability to at least partly turn Jesus into Karl Marx did fool some people," Bauer says.
The new crop, he comments, took advantage of a poor turnout from white evangelical Christians.
"We were 25% of the electorate two years ago, and I think we were like 18% of the electorate this past election," Bauer states.
Bauer emphasizes that the evangelicals who stayed home played a major role in the rout of 2026.
"The arithmetic I did pointed to 8 million evangelical Christians that usually vote didn't show up to vote. That would have reversed a good number of these losses," Bauer states.
But he says the trend should be reversable if evangelical pastors get back in the game in 2028 and beyond.
"The only way they'll (Democrats) be successful in that is if pastors don't educate their flocks and then get people out to vote," Bauer says. "It should be a wake-up call to the church. You're not going to be able to hide from this."
