This is the myth that will not die, and the media love it, because it shields 1) Republicans in general and 2) specifically their white evangelical base. It protects and gives privileged status to that white evangelical base by pretending that the white evangelicals adoring Trump aren't "really" evangelicals, but are unchurched and uncommitted, WEINOs (white evangelicals in name only).
Jones confronts this myth and the media shopping it around with facts.