“The appointment of Erika Kirk goes hand in hand with
Christian nationalist incursions into our armed forces. More than
anything, the appointment of Kirk to the board demonstrates the
ongoing politicization of the service academies.”
Elite white Christian nationalist (CN) theocrats are now out in the open about their theocratic intent and goals for American government, society and law. White Christian nationalism no longer hints at theocracy. CN elites leaders now say out loud that their key goals are (1) to seize the machinery of the state and impose their version of Christianity on everyone else, and (2) write the laws and rulebooks that would empower them do it. Former Trump official William Wolfe is arrogant and in-your-face about it. He blithely threatens (promises?) this:
“This is how we should order our lives together. And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality. You should always check yourselves. Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good? And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.’”
Wolfe tells dissenters to get out of America if they don’t like his vision of America. Wolfe isn’t just freelancing on his own. He’s summarizing the explicit intolerant, cruel CN spirit behind Project 2025, the Center for Renewing America, and CN’s broader push to concentrate power in a white, reactionary, Christian minority that treats equality and pluralism as existential threats. Link 1
Wolfe: Arrogant, cruel, corrupt, authoritarian
Look at what this movement says and does about race and identity. Research documents CN “Adherents” and “Sympathizers” as far more likely than other Americans to endorse authoritarian ideas, view Donald Trump as a “strong leader” rather than a dangerous dictator, and support political violence as a tool to “save” the nation. About 79% of CN Adherents score high on right‑wing authoritarianism. Americans United has spelled out the tight nexus between Christian nationalism and racism, from “replacement” rhetoric to a wave of attacks on communities of color and religious minorities committed in the name of defending a supposedly white Christian America. Black ministers have explicitly denounced Project 2025 as rooted in white Christian nationalism and warned that large segments of the white evangelical church are “drunk on the religion of White Christian Nationalism,” trading the gospel for a political project that tolerates poverty, voter suppression, and state violence so long as it preserves white, conservative dominance. And as researchers have noted, constant claims of “anti‑Christian bias” and “persecution” function as racialized dog whistles, signaling to white conservative voters that they, not Black, brown, or non‑Christian communities, are the “real” victims whose power must be restored. Link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5
White Christians are the real victims?? Not by a long shot. CN elites are empowered, cruel aggressors.
The cruelty and bigotry at the heart of the project are clearest where CN ideology meets policy. Project 2025 is an explicit blueprint to crush LGBTQ equality, reproductive freedom, racial equity, and church–state separation. CN elites cynically justify their bigotry and intolerance as constitutionally protected “religious liberty”. Importantly, the six MAGA judges on the USSC clearly agree. CN's bigoted theocracy invites government workers and taxpayer‑funded entities to refuse services to women, non-heterosexuals, religious minorities, and anyone else who doesn’t fit the approved Biblical mold. The same network behind Project 2025 includes outfits like Alliance Defending Freedom, which has already helped overturn Roe v. Wade and carve out broad rights to discriminate in employment, health care, and even adoption—one of their clients refused to place a child with a Jewish couple purely on religious grounds. At the same time, global and domestic watchdogs stress that this agenda is pro‑corruption by design: it calls for firing inspectors general, gutting voting‑rights enforcement, weakening campaign‑finance rules, and empowering the president to shut down public‑corruption probes into allies while weaponizing the FBI and DOJ against opponents, an anti‑democratic kleptocratic wish list dressed up as “efficiency” and “draining the swamp”. Link 6, link 7, link 8
Put together, the picture is not of pious reformers but of an arrogant, bigoted, racist, kleptocratic political project that uses Christian language as a shield for authoritarian power, corruption, and social hierarchy. PRRI’s state‑by‑state mapping shows that roughly a third of Americans lean toward Christian nationalist ideas, and where those views are strongest, you find the harshest hostility to LGBTQ people, immigrants, racial justice, and democracy itself. Groups tracking extremism warn that Christian nationalist organizations that range from dominionist churches to legal outfits and think tanks are explicitly working to overthrow our democratic republic and replace it a strict theocracy. Project 2025 is their closest thing to a published coup plan. CN aggression is out in the open. The question now is whether the rest of us treat their own words and documents as the huge flashing red light warnings they are and act to oppose it. Link 9, link 10, link 11
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