Okay, We Need to Talk About Christian Nationalists
They’re fascist, effective, and they’re winning.
Have you noticed the wave of book bans sweeping across the country? Or the draconian laws targeting trans youth, same-sex relationships, and reproductive healthcare?
Have you noticed the steady eradication of sex education from school curricula? The erosion of science? The erasure of history? The spontaneous pearl-clutching over critical race theory?
It’s because the Republican party has been taken over by Christian Nationalists, and while Republicans once believed in democracy, Christian Nationalists do not. We need to stop pretending that they do.
Christian Nationalists want to reshape the country into an authoritarian state that reflects their white supremacist worldview. They’re Christian the way the Ku Klux Klan is Christian, so their version of Christianity is one that has been bent into the shape of fascism.
Christian Nationalism promotes a white, heterosexual, male-dominant, rigidly patriarchal power structure with a fixation on sexual purity. I’m mentioning their obsession with sexual purity because they use it as a weapon to exclude, condemn, and punish those they don’t approve of.
