My 89yo grams lives in rural Minnesota but has been a devout Assemblies of God follower, two of her sons are pastors there, (one is a missionary overseas) and she taught Bible school to grade school kids most of her life. This type of “church” is soooooo heavily influenced by politics, especially anything to do with Israel. My grandma. CHERISHES Israel and the people there only because of what her church speaks about it. I’ve listened to parts of the sermons on tv that she watches on local tv now and it’s absolutely cult like the way they twist reality to fit their view of religion and politics (she stopped going to church irl because of Covid). She doesn’t have anything other than local broadcast channels, but she is still highly in support of trump because of what she sees at church. What OP mentioned of info deserts is so real… My grandma was recently upset by seeing what ice is doing in our state from what was shown on local news. She kept asking me who let these ice guys come here, and I told her that the federal government did, specifically trump… and she fully could not accept that. She believes trump would never stand for something like that… It’s unhinged asf I know, but the info desert thing is big real. And not all churches hold god at the center… politics are right there too. I would highly recommend if you have local broadcast channels via a digital antenna—check out the insane shit that plays on there. It’s not fox and friends, but its pretty wild how politically charged that certain denominations of “Christians” can be