Last night CSPAN aired my conversation with Tim Alberta, author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory. If you don’t have time to watch the entire interview, or read Alberta’s book (I hope you do both, but it’s the holiday season after all), then watch this speech by Charlie Kirk. It summarizes everything Alberta is talking about in his book, what I discussed in my 2018 book Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, and what many MAGA evangelicals are preaching today.
It’s all there:
- Politics is a form of spiritual warfare
- Evangelical conversion should lead to Trumpism. (I asked Alberta about this in the CSPAN interview).
- Use the pulpits to spread this kind of God and country Trumpism
- Victimhood: “They took Easter and Pentecost away from us.”
- State COVID-19 mandates squashed the spiritual revival we needed during COVID-19.
- Pastors who supported the lockdown were “cowards.”
- Referring to the Black Lives Matter protests after the murder of George Floyd as “Floydapalooza.”
- Systemic racism is a “lie from the pit of hell.”
- “Marxists” are trying to take over the church.
- Democrats are tyrants and “disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.”
- The United States was founded by “courageous Bible believing Christians.”
This, it seems to me, is Christian nationalism.