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This paper answers the puzzling question political observers have been asking over the last years: Why did so many Latino Christians vote for Donald Trump? My argument pushes back against simple racial explanations. Rather, I contend that Latino Evangelicals, and Evangelical Christianity in general. primed believers to accept neoliberalist ideals as tenets of their faith. It was the hegemony of neoliberalism that led so many to support this modern form of American authoritarianism.