罗伯特·P·琼斯指出，白人基督徒群体影响力的不断下降促成了他们与特朗普的结盟，并警告称这种情况正在重塑美国的民主制度。律师迈克·戈德温曾提出一条著名的“定律”：网络讨论持续的时间越长，其中出现将某些事件与纳粹或希特勒相类比的内容的可能性就越接近100%。
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy The lawyer Mike Godwin famously came up with the “law” that, as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one (or 100%).
在最新著作中，罗伯特·P·琼斯反复权衡是否应当作出这样的类比。但随着他对美国人口统计数据展开深入研究，又观察到基督教民族主义的兴起以及唐纳德·特朗普频繁使用有关种族纯洁性的言论，他最终得出了一个无法回避的结论。他在书中写道：“现在就是我们的1933年。”
Robert P Jones thought long and hard about whether to go there in his latest book. But the more he studied US demographic numbers, considered the rise of Christian nationalism and heard Donald Trump use the language of racial purity, he found the conclusion inescapable. “This is our 1933,” he writes.