Author Tim Alberta describes who is an Evangelical by definition today

an Evangelical what is an Evangelical yeah well there's certainly been a an evolution with the definition over the past 50 or 60 years it was well understood in the 60s certainly in the 70s to understand that this was a distinct subculture within American protestantism uh where folks truly believed that uh the Bible was the inspired word of God that it was not just a collection of writings about God but that in fact it was the word of God and that they had a responsibility then to take the gospel to the ends of the Earth and to evangelize that's the verb right I think what started to happen certainly in the late '70s and then into the 80s in the Moral Majority era is that the term began to take on more and more of a political connotation and if you fast forward all the way to today you know for better or worse and I in my opinion it's for Worse the perception of what it means to be an Evangelical is a conservative white Republican Trump supporter and and the Damage Done