The Left has weaponized so-called Christian nationalism to scare voters about common conservative beliefs.
has been used by the Left as a means of dismissing social conservatives who believe in the role of religion — or Judeo-Christian values — in everyday American life. In this series,r will analyze what it actually means to be a ‘Christian Nationalist,’ why the term is maligned and misunderstood, and what role, if any, it might play in a future Trump administration.
found a substantial portion of black and Hispanic Americans hold views consistent on some level with Christian nationalism. Thirty percent of white Americans would qualify as Christian nationalists under the definition provided by the Public Religion Research Institute, which conducted the poll. The Left has also sought to cast Christian nationalism as “the anti-democratic notion that America is a nation by and for Christians alone,” as the Center for American Progressin 2022. “At its core, this idea threatens the principle of the separation of church and state,” the activist group said.
Left-wing definitions often apply a racist and violent label to a well-intentioned ideology grounded primarily in the American founding. Those progressives largely ignore what its adherent conservatives believe about it, said Meadowcroft, whose organization is more comfortable with the label than others on the Right.
The Right’s renewed interest in ideas that could be grouped under the rubric of Christian nationalism is, in some ways, a reaction to conservatives’ belief that they have largely lost the culture war.
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