White Christian Nationalism

Let's talk about white Christian nationalism - it's one of the greatest threats to our country our rights and our vaginas and yet one of the least understood.

Because while I'm sure you have a picture in your head when I say white Christian nationalist, I'm guessing this guy - there's a lot more influence history and scary goals that lie below the surface of this project 2025 shaped iceberg.

Ones that most people don't even know about; and it's not because they aren't looking or don't care it's because this movement is masterful and disguising itself as a fascist in a Christian's clothing.

So I'm partnering with People for the American Way to provide a thorough primer on Christian nationalism; specifically, white Christian nationalism: what it is, what it isn't, the history behind this movement, what motivates it, and how they want our country to look; oh, and how you can stop them.

Now whether you realize it or not you have definitely heard Christian nationalist talking points they're everywhere on TV: "law enforcement officers are ministers of God sent to punish evildoers. I think a lot of what the left supports is satanic. You either impose a Christian value or or that vacuum is going to be filled by something else on the internet.

As far as forcing people to believe what we believe - yes, I want a supreme leader totalitarian Christian dictator. I want to make sure that everyone believes in what I believe in.

It's that everyone needs to believe in Christianity and even in our public institutions father we just claim Oklahoma for you every Square in we claim it for you in the name of Jesus this Society of the United States of America you know was built on the foundation you know of what happened thousands of years ago um in the holy land so if we are going to have one nation under God which we must we have to have one religion white Christian nationalism is ubiquitous in America from high-ranking elected officials to Evangelical interest groups to extreme right-wing factions and right now all of those blocks are working together towards a single goal to force their extreme unpopular ideology on the rest of America whether we want it or not so

PART 1: Definition

What is white Christian nationalism? You might wonder why I keep including the word white and it's not because I'm some reverse racist - whatever that means - it's because this is a specific ideology that relies on a white identity which supersedes everything else.

Both the Christian and the Nationalist part and look call me controversial but I don't

like religious extremism of any sort any type of fanatical religious or ideological movement result in a push to

take away others rights and control their way of life that's not good but white Christian nationalism specifically

is a unique and dangerous ideology that poses maybe the most dire threat to our

country and our democracy right now but before we get into that I should Define plain old Christian nationalism the

Christian part of the term refers to the religion of Christianity and nationalism is an identity or loyalty to one's

nation state for example a America this is often and especially to the detriment of other foreign parties together those

ideas of Christianity and nationalism create a specific ideology Freedom Forum

writer Scott a leadingham defines Christian nationalism as the belief that the United States is a country defined

by Christianity this includes ideas like the government should protect and advocate for Christian values and pass

laws that reflect those values or at least certain interpretations of them Christian nationalists also believe that

separation of church and state isn't real and that God 's divine plan includes America's success well

Christian America's success these talking points can be found in pretty much any denomination of Christianity

regardless of race but to Define white Christian nationalism I'm going to cite a book that was a major source for this

video it's called the flag and the cross white Christian nationalism and the threat to American democracy it's

written by sociology professors Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry and it's an extremely enlightening book essentially

Gorski and Perry tried to follow the development of modern white Christian nationalism in the United States partly

to explain how we got from point A to January 6th in the first part of the book The professors survey people to

create a Christian nationalism scale basically a way to see where Christian nationalism and whiteness intersect and

amplify each other for example at the start of the book they show these two panels with various scores on the

Christian nationalism scale the higher these factions score the more they think the US is defined by Christianity this

one panel a shows General Christian denominations like Presbyterian Jehovah's Witness and Pentecostal

Pentecostal is at the top the most Christian nationalist denomination with United Church of Christ at the bottom

now this panel panel B focuses on ethn religious Traditions those are combinations of religious and racial

identities these categories include white black Hispanic and Eastern Orthodox Christians it probably won't

surprise you to learn that white evangelicals scored highest on this scale but it's worth noting that black conservative Protestants were the second

highest category this demonstrates that people of all Races can Embrace Christian nationalist ideas black

conservative Protestants for example might think about how MLK Jr used scripture to convince Christians to be

better on the ideas of racial Justice and it's not a far leap to get from there to the idea that scripture should

be in our government but just like white Southern Christians had a very different opinion of MLK Jr Recent research shows

that Christian nationalism affects white Americans in a unique way let's go back to Gorski and Perry Gorski and Perry

asked various respondents basic questions about American political history for example did the Supreme

Court stop students from in public schools but the results of these questions were staggering especially

when you see the differences between white and black respondents there is a huge disparity between secular white

Americans and white Christian nationalists in terms of correctly answering these factual questions

conversely while there is an uptick the higher you get on the Christian nationalism scale as a black American it

is much less different than for secular black Americans basically the higher you

score as a white American the less likely you are to know basic facts but

this doesn't apply to everything when asked about universally accepted scientific Concepts why Christian

nationalists scored about the same as everyone else it's only when it came to hot button culture War topics that the

situation changed drastically take history for instance less than 10% of

white secular Americans opposed removing Confederate statues but look at the other end of the scale Almost 100% of

white Christian nationalists went to bat for Robert E Lee just like Jesus would have wanted but this trend applies to a

lot more than high school science and Civil War history take a look at this graph about Co these people at the top

right corner the highest part of the Christian nationalism scale yeah their most trusted Source on Co was Donald

Trump and all the way down here that's the CDC scientists and medical professionals now I'm sure you're

wondering how can someone be grounded enough to accept atoms and lasers but get their medical advice from Donald

Trump and why does this pattern seem to only apply to White Christian nationalists well first we'll need to

Define white Christian nationalism as an ideology white Christian nationalism is focused on that first word white while

Christian nationalism more broadly is centered on the idea that America is inherently Christian and should tout

Christian values Above All Else white Christian nationalism takes that already dicey idea to an even darker Place

essentially white Christian nationalists believe that yes America is a Christian Nation but their vision of a Christian

Nation is rooted in in white supremacy and we're not just talking about preachers and pastors saying stuff like

this people involved in the secular worlds like media and politics say this stuff all the time but they usually use

different words sometimes we'll talk about defending judeo-christian values or protecting Western Civilization

vagish ideas that are still palatable to a less religious rightwing audience United States of America it was founded

on judeo Christian values we're undercutting the values of Western civilization of free thought it's Civ

ization ending poison and that might not sound so bad I mean they're just standing for our beautiful gleaming

well-endowed country but in this context judeo-christian values means white Whit

not a culture you mean Western Civilization the greatest civilization

the world has ever seen isn't a culture because we're white that's racism these

standin words at least when they're used more subtly that's racism are called dog whistles it's like a physical dog

whistle they emit a tone or in this case meaning that only certain people can understand it's meant to evoke a strong

emotion from a seemingly innocuous phrase for example conservatives love to refer to Barack Obama by his full name

Barack Hussein Obama Barack Hussein Obama Barack Hussein

Obama I know what you're thinking cat you're such a snowflake what's wrong with using his middle name it's on his

birth certificate supposedly sure but that's not the point these are people who constantly fearmonger about Muslims

and by emphasizing Hussein a name associated with an Iraqi dictator they are trying to activate a fear response

in your brain similarly you could get cancelled for saying the n-word on television or just making Brazen

generalizations about the black community but if you replace black with inner city you can claim plausible

deniability when you are rightfully called out for your racism in an affluent School District this isn't you

know the inner city and you would think that these kids have some kind of a value system this practice of obfuscation is Central to all bigoted

movements most people don't want to admit their own biases at least publicly that's why it's so effective to sanitize

racist opinions as Community concern or hatred towards queer people as protecting children or white supremacy

whether consciously or not as Christian values now I don't talk a lot about my own views on religion publicly but I do

take it very seriously my parents made a real effort to not force religion on my brother or myself my dad was raised in a

Muslim household in Lebanon and my mom's family was Protestant I went to Catholic school because there were a lot of great

academic opportunities but I was never pressured into any faith that being said I found great comfort in Christianity

growing up a i i e on my own accord I read the Bible

asked my parents to send me to a Christian summer camp every year and chose to get baptized now I more

identify with values rather than I specific Faith but I do believe in things we can't understand and religion

Interfaith displays and the memory of daily Chapel Services as a kid still bring me great comfort to this day I say

all of this because I want to make it very clear that Christianity and religion are not inherently evil they

give a lot of people a sense of strength and community and purpose they spur many

to think larger than themselves and help others this is not a space to demonize

or make fun of Faith even if you don't believe in it but for the white Christian nationalists who are building

power to reshape our country religion acts as a camouflage for the ideas underneath it and the reason we know

that is because despite what you may have heard the word America is not in the Bible in fact the entire faith is

centered around a Jewish guy who died in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago his ideas are still pretty popular maybe you've heard

of them but they're probably a lot more woke than Tucker Carlson would like that's why white Christian nationalists

had to create their own religious political identity one focused more on bigotry than Beatitudes for these people

Christian is a key part of their sense of self but so is white and American ironically it's kind of similar to the

idea of the Christian Holy Trinity Father Son and Holy Spirit three separate entities that are also somehow

one each part equal to the other so if a person's worldview is simultaneously shaped around their race and their

national identity and then justified by religious devotion it's no mystery how all of those become synonymous in that

person's mind white Christian nationalists seek to institutionalize their version of Christianity in our

government and for them that faith is intrinsic to whiteness Gorski and Perry summarize this concept perfectly it's

not just religious Nostalgia or even religious conservatism rather it's an acute strain of ethn traditionalism in

which white and Christian are conflated into a single identity white Christian

it's how we get results like this if you're white and a Christian nationalist you're more likely to think we need more

guns in society that voting is too accessible and that antifa was responsible for January 6th you're

probably a strong believer in free market capitalism and the Electoral College and you most likely think white

people suffer more discrimination than black people in case you didn't know none of those ideas are in the Bible

yeah Jesus did not in fact say January 6 was a setup on the morning of January 6

I was in the shower the Lord came to me in the shower a voice clearly told me do not go to the C and while Christian

nationalists of all Races believe in core ideals like the Constitution was divinely inspired there was a direct

correlation between believing right-wing misinformation and your identity as a Christian nationalist if you are a white

American once again this is not about religion it's about far-right ideology

and fascist goals specifically to take away freedoms from people who don't deserve them women people of color lgbtq

people non Christians the poor the list is endless so how did we get here well

PART 2: History

to be clear Christian nationalism and white supremacy are not new ideas especially in America this country was

founded by the blood of native peoples and black slaves and Christianity has always been used as justification for

that domination even before Jamestown Christopher Columbus Justified his genocide of native tribes as an effort

to spread Christianity through a crusade to bring about the apocalypse great normal guy but as far as the

continental United States goes fascist predecessors have always used Christianity as a tool for subjugation

early English settlers for instance use the Bible as justification for colonizing native lands specifically

Genesis 1 128 be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it now their motivation was debatable to say

the least but some missionaries did genuinely try to convert native tribes for example John Elliott spent years

translating the Bible into algonkian these efforts were at best paternalistic and far less common than outright

aggression in the name of God this is actually how we get the Pocahontas story Jamestown was ordered to christianize

all the Local Natives and when that didn't work the London company came in and slaughtered them instead Pocahontas

was actually a hostage a bargaining chip used to end the war now as Europeans began to colonize North America they saw

the Atlantic slave trade as necessary for their growth I mean how are you supposed to succeed without brutally

enslaving people I should note that many Christians especially in the north were a large part of the Abolitionist

Movement but at the same time many slave owners especially in the South used Christianity as an excuse for

enslavement they often cited scripture particularly a story from the Old Testament where Noah's son Ham was

condemned to Perpetual servitude some went even further Georgia Bishop Steven Elliot celebrated the fact that Millions

have been made to know their savior through the means of African slavery not only that but this was apparently the

only way sem I barbarous people could learn obedience perseverance and

self-control it's like I'm reading a Florida textbook now during and after the Civil War these Concepts melded even

more into white Christianity despite taking one of the most historic L's of all time white Confederates used

Christianity to create an alternate reality of Southern victimhood this is where we get the lost cosmoth the idea

that the Civil War was about states rights and not slavery one of the most crucial parts of the Lost Cause ideology

is the idea that the Old South where white slave owners ruled over everyone else will rise again this was often

compared to the resurrection of Jesus Christ and was such a common idea that historians now refer to it as the Lost

Cause religion it's described as marrying the ideas of Confederate heroism and Christian piety basically a

prototype for today's white Christian nationalism now while some stays in the South clinging to dead dreams of

national white domination others went West claiming the rest of the continent as their own under orders from God but

as post- civil war America grew in size and power so did adherence of these racist philosophies this is when we get

the KKK legal segregation and Rapid anti-communist movements all of which

were used to oppress people of color women and the queer Community but it was really during the Civil Rights era when

the right turned their affinity for Christian branding up to an 11 many white Americans especially in the South

were terrified of desegregation but as it gained popularity across the country country it was becoming at least more

frowned upon to be outwardly aggressively racist so just like slave owners before and fanatical transphobes

now these people use Christianity as a way to excuse their bigotry sanitizing

their view that America is meant for white Christians I mean you can't get mad at someone for listening to God this

obviously didn't work but that didn't stop racist from clinging to the rotting remains of segregated America in many

places Church congregations were still whites only and as public schools began to desegregate many white people sent

their children to private religious schools schools that could accept certain students and reject others in

some places these white so-called christiany were used as a reason to underfund public schools because of that

in other places Public Schools were closed altogether remember that for later I consider this the first true

form of modern white Christian nationalism as the government gave more freedom to black people bigots had to

use private religious institutions to skirt the law this created countless exclusively white communities that were

primarily characterized by their Christian affiliation but the reality is at the time America was becoming more

Progressive and conservatives were losing power additionally crazy left ideas like accessible reproductive

healthare State recognition of gay people and secularism in schools were becoming Norms across the country and at

a certain point the federal government told private schools they could either keep their segregationist racist

policies or or their tax exempt status but not both conservative white evangelicals saw this as an attack on

their religious freedom and political control that's why in 1976 Baptist Minister Jerry fwell founded the Moral

Majority to fwell and Friends Jimmy Carter's support of the Equal Rights Amendment and communist ideas like

social welfare programs were a direct threat to their power so they organized with other members of the Christian

right especially in the South to create an organization that could Lobby for greater Christian rule in American

politics to to the Moral Majority this meant attacking women's rights and abortion criminalizing homosexuality and

removing any limitations on increased Military Arms because Jesus loves nukes

this crescendoed in 1980 when the Moral Majority and other similar groups provided Ronald Reagan with the first

significant United Christian conservative voting block one that married the ideas of taking freedoms

from others and a Christian American identity to this day what many people know as the Evangelical voting block is

essential to any right-winger who wants to win off office but they don't need to be a pastor or even that religious these

candidates just need to commit to the Views that group wants to hear in the technical name of God it's how a Serial

philanderer and legally designated rapist who doesn't know it's called 2 Corinthians can not only win the

presidency but have his administration characterized like this I I would argue that it's probably three of the greatest

years since maybe Jesus walked the Earth with his ministry now we've talked about a lot but what is actually driving white

PART 3: Motivation

Christian nationalists well no group is a monol with and certain people will have higher priorities but the most

common thread between all of them is that this belief system is motivated by fear fear of progress fear of Divergence

fear of a loss of power because most of these people see rights as a zero sum game there is a finite amount of freedom

in the world and if we give some of it to say women then men will lose their own most if not all conspiracy theories

follow this exact same format I mean you don't blame anything on Jewish space lasers unless you're terrified of

everything beyond your narrow worldview but along with a fear of losing power comes resentment white Christian

nationalists feel like this country belongs to them and it makes them angry that they have to share it and share the

power with anyone else so it's very easy for people to gain political power by

manipulating and inflaming that fear and resentment now first I should emphasize what white Christian nationalists don't

believe what doesn't motivate them and that's what millions of Christians would call actual Christian values like I've

said the religion part of all of this is inextricably tied to the Race part I'd bet a lot of money if Jesus was alive

today a poor Refugee who hung around derelicts and condemned rich people many on the right would attack him for being

woke in fact some Evangelical preachers have attested that when they preach Jesus's Sermon on the Mount some people

in their congregation have complained that they're pushing liberal values but I do understand how all of this is hard

to reconcile these are two directly opposing ideas but that's why I want to stress how much far right ideology

relies on cognitive dissonance the ability to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time for example

calling yourself a Christian while you rail against welfare programs defending Freedom while you dismantle civil rights

or spamming that one MLK quote while ignoring all the other stuff he said you don't judge people by the color of their

skin the content of their character I'd go as far to say that hypocrisy is essential to Fascism especially when it

comes to recruiting people for your cause that are uncomfortable with the more costic rhetoric so that's one of

the main ways white Christian nationalists justify their thinking on the other hand some just change reality

to fit their own belief system this is how we get such aggressive rhetoric from a supposedly peaceful group because they

REM masculinized Jesus basically to justify violence and authoritarianism in

the name of the Prince of Peace the white Christian right has spent the last century reconning Jesus from a neutered

limp wristed Sky fairy an actual quote from Evangel IAL Pastor Mark Driscoll to an aggro hyper masculine Warrior just

like every big strong white American man this might sound weird but think about it religion is supposed to be a core

part of your belief system so what happens if you worship some pacifist soy boy who washes his buddy's feet and

doesn't even own a gun you very well may turn gay now this type of testosteron thinking directly translates to the IRL

leadership white Christian nationalists want they want a warrior someone who will fight for them and against their

received persecution as Gorski and Perry write they want a fighter for Christians read people like us not someone who

fights like a Christian this is how a guy like Trump can get so much support from conservative Christians while a guy

like Pence well you [Applause]

(a) Authoritarianism

know so now that we know how we got here let's talk about the real life priorities of white Christian

nationalists as voters and in our government and number one on that list is authoritarianism this is the

foundation for white Christian nationalism and the ultimate goal for the movement it serves as the Arbiter

for everything else I'll mention in this video this is why you need fascism okay

authoritarianism is a system of governance that concentrates most power in a central figure at the expense of

democracy checks and balances and civil liberties it's usually characterized by a specific ideology that is forced on

its citizens and requires total obedience and Conformity to whatever the party in power demands remember these

people want want to force their ideology on you whether you want it or not and it's not limited to their religious

affiliation all of the ideas they've associated with Christianity and whiteness in America come with the

sabotage of our democracy basically it's the world's worst by one get 10free deal now Fascism and authoritarianism are

inherently rooted in a desire for a strong man that Warrior figure I mentioned before and whether it's white

roided up Jesus or Vladimir Putin shirtless on Horseback the vision is the same we need an indomitable leader who

will come in and enact a specific Vision at any cost this is how authoritarian

leaders get elected in the first place Adolf Hitler maybe the most infamous dictator of all time prayed on Germans

fear in the face of their financial ruin and fan the Flames of existing racism to promise that he alone could deliver them

musolini did the same specifically hitting on the importance of Traditional Values to activate a base that was

apprehensive of an increasingly modernized world now most Christian nationalists are hesitant to endorse the

vision of Hitler or musolini at least publicly but they frequently praise authoritarian leaders in power right now

in fact if you want to know what kind of country America's white Christian nationalists have in mind take a look at

Victor orban's Hungary he's built an authoritarian descent crushing Freedom squelching regime on the basis of

nationalist rhetoric especially focused on anti-immigrant anti-semitic and

anti-lgbtq ideas America's White Christian nationalists love orbon they

love him so much they held a special edition of CPAC the right-wing activist conference in Hungary oh and Kevin

Roberts the head of the Heritage Foundation and project 2025 says orban's Hungary is the model for what they want

to do in America all of these men run brutal regimes and keep their power

through aggressive nationalist rhetoric and by using the state to squash descent

and that's because fear is always the tool of choice for authoritarianism and right now white Christian nationalists

are motivated by that same type of fear they're scared of losing a place of societal superiority of having to accept

coexistence with people unlike them rather than dominating with the government's approval to them the

liberal dream of a diverse modern society means losing their own dream of

a country where they alone hold the power so their solution is to cheat the system to get someone in power who will

overwrite the will of most Americans to enact God's vision and this isn't some alarmist rhetoric from a crazy lib

they're telling us this every day anyone who gets things done in Washington has to be a dictator only the Nazis wanted a

great country I guess we need a good authoritarian leader for like 10 years it's just a healthy cathartic reset we

need to take control of the media or take control of the government and force the people to believe what we believe or

force them to play by our rules and reshape the society unfortunately this is not just rhetoric happening in the

INF fringes the white Christian nationalist push for authoritarianism is active and ongoing across the country I

mean just 3 years ago a bunch of these people tried to overturn a democratic election in the name of God thankfully

the attempted Insurrection on January 6th failed but many state and local governments you know where some of the

most consequential and enactable laws are passed aren't as lucky Ronda santis is a textbook example of

authoritarianism on the state level his administration has spent the last 5 years trying to consolidate power

wherever they can appointing sympathetic cronies and key positions of power and using the state to punish anyone who

threatens his power from private businesses to elected officials and asantis portrays all of this as a

mission from God and on the eighth day God looked down on his planned

paradise and said I need a protector so God made a fighter

authoritarian Christian nationalism is flourishing at the local level as well often flying beneath the national radar

for example in Colorado a guy named Andrew wilmac has helped people from the church he runs to take over his local

school board this County ought to be uh totally dominated by Believers these

(b) Violence

people aren't subtle now with every authoritarian movement comes physical violence and white Christian nationalism

is no different research shows that people with white Christian nationalist views are a lot more likely to support

political violence for their own gain than other Americans in fact the religion news service reported that

white Christian nationalists are about twice as likely to believe political violence may be justified to get the

country back on track so it's no surprise that white Christian nationalists often engage in overtly

violent rhetoric a key part of this identity is self-victimization white Christian nationalists especially the

men believe they are the most oppressed people in society constantly Under Fire

from the Liberals in power the FBI as an organization has joined in the hunt for

Christians there is an issue in an affront and a war on Christians in America the war on white people

continues a big inspiration for this mindset is the great replacement Theory a white supremacist conspiracy theory

that has inspired countless Mass Shooters and is now regularly espoused by Christian nationalists across the

country I could make an entire separate video essay about the great replacement Theory but here's the gist Liberals are

trying to replace white and especially white Christian Americans with immigrants well black and brown

immigrants oh and by the way this is all being run by the Jews this theory has been popular infringe right-wing circles

for the last decade but in 2021 Tucker Carlson made it mainstream that the left and all the little Gatekeepers on

Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term replacement if you suggest that the Democratic party is

trying to replace the current electorate the voters now casting ballots with new

people more obedient voters from the third world but they become hysterical because that's that's what's happening

actually let's just say it that's true he was rightfully condemned for the statement but that didn't matter the flood Gates were open after all if the

top Cable News host in the country can say it the great replacement yeah it's not a conspiracy theory it's their

electoral strategy remember the great replacement Theory it sounds more like a statistical fact they will change the

electorate again they say that we're not guessing why can't our elected officials

Joe Biden's open border is killing Ohioans with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this

country is it really they want to remake the demographics of America toensure sure they're that they stay in power

Forever This is trying to take over our country without firing a shot so when you combine all of that with a religious

Devotion to certain ideas white Christian nationalists are able to justify violence at any cost it feels

like there's a battle between good versus evil a spiritual battle that is being Brew brewing in America I'm a

Christian but I'm done turning the other cheek because we're willing to die in The Holy War we will make them die in

the holy war now imagine what happens when those people are in power it's easy

to Simply write off these violent statements as political rhetoric or to think that could never happen in America

but it's already reality white Christian nationalists have consistently used violence for their own gain throughout

our history the KKK burned crosses and lynched black people in the name of their white Christian Utopia George

tiller an abortion doctor was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist who considered himself part of the army of

God and that was in 2009 and some of the worst mass shootings in our country's history are being committed in the name

of white Christian nationalism far-right actors want to characterize these as one-offs individual acts of violence

that have nothing to do with each other but to stop the steel rally on January 6th that was in part organized by

far-right Evangelical groups some of their members were participants in the violence against Capital police others

conducted prayers before and after breaching the capital in many cases invoking biblical violence to justify

the riot hell the qanon shaman not only LED prayer inside the capital but it said he breached the doors at God's

behest since then violent rhetoric from the far right has ramped up often calling for State sanctioned violence

once they get into Power the mainstream media should be charged the folks that made the calls the top with treason to

this nation leadership requires killing people sorry Give me liberty or give you death Sign Sealed and [ __ ] delivered

believe them when they tell you who they are now if you've watched any Fox News in the last 5 years you've probably

(c) Education

heard a lot about our schools critical race Theory drag queen Story Hour parental rights these are now common

talking points for the right and that's because authoritarian movements seek to quash education Nazi Germany had its

famous book burnings the Soviet Union conducted mass exterminations of academics and the cultural revolution in

China hunted down teachers and the overeducated Bourgeois in all of these cases schools were shuttered and

curricula that benefited the regime usually focused on a specific ideology or pseudoscience and Eugenics were

installed instead I say this all the time but authoritarianism is antithetical to The Human Condition you

might have noticed but it never wins in the end however if you want to prolong your regime you'll have much better luck

trying to mold young minds than change old ones now the right has accused liberals of marxist indoctrination and

getting rid of free speech in our schools but it's really the opposite college campuses for instance are seen

as a hot bed for leftist brainwashing the reality is just that kids are finally meeting new people and hearing

new ideas ideas and people that say Ronda santis would prefer didn't exist in our K through2 education system

Educators have been attacked as groomers for informing kids that queer people exist that's just true and pretending

otherwise not only leaves students unprepared for the real world but also erases queer students and same-sex

parents white Christian nationalists seek to control our educational system because then they control an entire

generation's perceived reality a reality that should be Godly and patriotic and

Usher in a new age of conservative Supremacy rather than adapt to the current interconnected diverse modern

world and before you ask about separation between church and state that doesn't matter to these people they've

said as much and there is no separation of church and state it's a fabrication it's a fiction it's not in the Constitution It's Made Up by secular

humanists separation of church and state found nowhere in our founding documents I think that we have have to get over

this fantasy of neutrality in institutions and schools and all of this of course applies to Public Schools as

well public schools are religious schools let me say this again white Christian nationalists desire a new

educational reality one that revolves around a Christian God and a white America this is the onus for groups like

moms for Liberty an extremist organization that advocates for more conservatism less education and zero

vaccines in our schools they are a large part the right-wing push to take over school boards oh yeah all of that drama

about School Board elections on your local news another non-coincidence it's more important to go run for your local

Schoolboard than it is just to show up for another political rally and trust me

I'm all for political rallies we need Christian men and women running at especially for school boards are we

going to start taking over these school boards absolutely we're going to take over the school boards but it's that's not enough once we replace the school

boards what we need to do is we need to have search firms that are conservative search firms that help us to find new

educational leaders whether it's under the guise of teaching children Godly values protecting their innocence or

preserving parental rights white Christian nationalists are currently degrading education across the country

in the name of their ideology Oklahoma is basically a prototype for what these people would like to accomplish

nationally and that's in large part thanks to this guy Ryan Walters the state superintendent of Public

Instruction I should note that Walters probably wouldn't be in this position if he hadn't been appointed Secretary of

Education in 2020 by Governor stit now Walters along with the help of other white Christian nationalists in the

Oklahoma government has made it his mission to take liberal indoctrination and critical race Theory out of public

schools and replace them with a Christian God as of this year Oklahoma public schools are required to

incorporate the Bible in lesson plans this order was spearheaded by Walters who also just requested $6 million to

put Bibles in every classroom Walters has also surrounded Ed himself with other far-right extremists for example

he appointed the woman behind Libs of Tik Tok an account which has inspired bomb threats and harassment campaigns to

schools and hospitals across the country to Oklahoma's Library advisory committee

uh some fun facts about this she doesn't live in Oklahoma advocates for book bans on a near- daily basis and once posted a

doctored video that caused Tulsa schools to be inundated with some of those affir mention bomb threats great stuff of

course this type of political maneuvering is not unique to Oklahoma in Florida santis has essentially banned

the word gay from the classroom along with hundreds of books and comprehensive sex education but ideally these people

would like to just get rid of public schools altogether white Christian nationalists and project 2025 have

repeatedly called to eliminate the Department of Education there really shouldn't be Public Schools should there

we need a mass Exodus from the public school system so until you can get rid of the Federal Department of Education

which every Republican candidate should run on some more enthusiastically than others kill the Department of Education

kill it with fire burn it down dance around its ashes metaphorically I mean

of course right now that's not feasible which is why the right has chosen to prioritize charter schools these are

institutions that receive public Educational Funding but are exempt from many of the requirements and

qualifications that public schools have this is what right-wingers are talking about when they say school choice

despite the many scandals associated with Charter Schools particularly a Litany of corrup and financial crimes

the right has positioned school choice as one of its top priorities until they can totally eliminate the doe they want

the government to subsidize Charter Schools where the regulations are few and the uncertified teachers are many

and a recent Supreme Court decision has opened the door to a future of taxpayer funded religious charter schools and

that future is now in places like Oklahoma where the state just approved its first taxpayer funded religious

charter school and it's true in Arizona where a voucher program sent so much money to a mega Church's unregulated

school that the public schools around it had to shut down sound familiar make no mistake about it if white Christian

nationalists get more power this is the future of our educational system now it's time to talk about the albatross

(d) Women

hanging around the anti-choice movement's neck right now abortion it's no secret the far right doesn't like

women I think that virtually every societal ill that we are facing today is because of women from attacking

childless cat ladies to insisting they stay with abusers to forcing them to carry their rapist baby and that's just

Ohio Senator JD Vance for a while a lot of conservative women could shrug off this rhetoric especially if it didn't

directly affect them but since roie Wade was overturned abortion has been the largest electoral Thorn In the far right

side let me be very clear restricting abortion is unpopular by a large margin

women across parties disapprove of abortion banss it is one of if not the

biggest issu isue for Women Voters and every electoral attempt to further restrict abortion has failed even in red

States but while plenty of right-wingers have railed against abortion in the past the reason we're here where women are

bleeding out in ER bathrooms because doctors are too scared to treat them is because of white Christian nationalism

until the late '70s evangelicals largely considered abortion a Catholic issue Jerry fwell the founder of that group

Moral Majority which we talked about before didn't even preach his first anti abortion sermon until 5 years after roie

Wade so what changed how did we get from there to describing abortion like this

you are promoting an ancient religious right called Human Sacrifice remember when we talked about segregation and the

Christian right and when the government threatened to take tax exempt status from Christian institutions if they kept

being racist well leaders in these extreme conservative movements didn't like that but they realized pure racism

was no longer enough motivation to recruit less openly prejudice just voters to their cause so their solution

was abortion this framing worked on three levels number one saving babies is a hell of a rallying cry number two the

structure was inherently anti-government and number three controlling women's bodies played into extreme Evangelical

ideas about women and social roles because abortion is not just about abortion it's about controlling women's

bodies and women's lives by taking away their privacy forcing them into motherhood and keeping them at home now

Banning a abortion is a two-pronged approach first off you have to legally restrict Healthcare but second you're

also trying to usher in a new age where your political beliefs are seen as a status quo as one project 2025 alies so

eloquently said we should make abortion Unthinkable but we're I'm over here going well it should also be unavailable

too like it has to be both things it's easy to underestimate the goals for this movement but don't before I get into

some of the ludicrous anti-choice goals white Christian nationalists have said on the record let's talk about current

legislation that exists right now Texas restricts abortion to 6 weeks after

conception before the vast majority of people even realize they're pregnant but on top of that the state has passed what

is essentially an abortion bounty hunting law if you know someone who got an abortion even across state lines you

can sue anyone who helped them for $110,000 and even if you're not successful the defendant can't recoup

their legal costs this is a recipe for vigilante harassment against medical

providers women and their loved ones Idaho also restricts abortion after 6 weeks this left one woman bleeding out

in an ER bathroom because doctors were too scared to treat her why because if

they did they could lose their medical license and be fined $20,000 judges have denied children

abortion access because they're not mature enough to make the decision 13-year-olds are being forced to give

birth to their rapist babies and women are dying preventable deaths because

doctors are scared of prison time if they do their jobs all the name of God and the sanctity of Life speaking of

life these are the same people trying to ban IVF and describe gay couples using a surate like this it is a form of of

trafficking every single adult involved in this should be imprisoned for life at least if you found any of that scary you

should hear what else white Christian nationalists have planned State surveillance of your menstrual cycle federal laws to keep you from crossing

state lines if you have a vagina and the death penalty for Reproductive care just

to name a few in case it wasn't obvious white Christian nationalists seek to take away your freedoms and this is

already happening right now in the United States to millions of American women and it could be expanded further

into even more states with more Extreme Measures if white Christian nationalists get any more access to power but as the

(e) LGBTQ

right has hemorrhaged voters say thanks to the Christian nationalist Crusade against abortion it's hoping to gain

some of them back with another extreme authoritarian tactic aggressively attacking the lgbtq community queer

people are often forced to be canaries in a Proto fascist coal mine as authoritarians tend to Target them first

and America is no different we have a history of this the lavender scare was one of the first state sanctioned

discrimination campaigns against queer people in the US it worked in tandem with Joseph McCarthy's Red Scare

painting gay men and lesbians as National Security risks and as the Gay Liberation movement picked up in the'

60s and' 70s especially after the Stonewall riots those Conservative Christian groups I mentioned before grew

With It singer Anita Bryant launched a campaign to save our children I.E reinstate laws that discriminated

against queer people the AIDS crisis also ushered in a new age of homophobia this was exacerbated by Ronald Reagan

who's in action partly because he didn't want to alienate his new white Evangelical conservative voting block

led to at least a 100,000 deaths from the disease and throughout the years mass shootings and hate crimes have

occurred across the country in the name of homophobic and transphobic bigotry things started to improve in the 2010s

as Decades of political organizing and cultural change worked their way into the law gay marriage was legalized don't

ask don't tell was repealed and it became more possible for lgbtq Americans to live openly and honestly while

serving in the government military and just about everywhere else but the backlash has never died lots of the same

people who worked for years to overturn roie Wade now want the conservative Supreme Court to overturn its marriage

equality ruling in other words they don't just want to take gay books out of the libraries they want to go back to a

time when gay people couldn't get married or when States could criminalize homosexuality they know most Americans

won't agree with that agenda that's why they focused on building their power by demonizing transgender people it's an

explicit political strategy even if they do sound ridiculous sometimes the guy in a dress is a million times more

objective than blackace really more than a million times it's it's infinite if you have red blood in your veins then

you do not buy a Bud Light product so do not shop at Target or else you're gay and you're a pervert queer people and

particularly trans people are being villainized on a daily basis by farri right politicians media figures and

religious leaders doctors and teachers are accused of grooming children into changing their gender or being sexually

active states are trying to shut down private spaces like drag shows and hate

crimes against lgbtq individuals have skyrocketed in the last few years this

unfortunately isn't surprising not when so many far-right figures talk about queer people like this transgenderism

must be eradicated from public life entirely well it's it's a social contagion right now that this is

happening transgender is potentially more of a threat if applied recklessly

than say white supremacy okay lgbtq people are being lab laed as pedophiles aberration affronts to God himself and

his plans for the traditional family because that's what all of this is supposedly about the traditional family

translation the specific type of family white Christian nationalists approve of

Dr LaVine is part of a cultural Marxist movement that wants to erase gender in

order to destroy Notions of the traditional uh family they want to destroy it like everything else I've

talked about this anti-gay hysteria Rising alongside authoritarianism is not

a coincidence they go hand inand and right now we're in the phase of normalizing this type of hate and

bigotry by Framing an issue around protecting children and loving your family things every person cares about

you can make the oppression of a certain group sound like a societal good and for

the more DieHard allies well you can always just call Trans people demonic but what this comes down to is an

authoritarian regime using lgbtq people as an other some scary unknown that is

meant to distract their already angry base from the real issues and the reason

we know this is because this is not the first time queer people have been targeted at the start of a rising

fascist movement current authoritarian regimes Target queer people specifically to consolidate their own power under

Vladimir Putin for instance hostility against homosexuality and Russia has increased from 60% to 74% in the last 20

years notably hate crimes against queer people tripled in Russia after the implementation of its gay propaganda law

this started as a ban against Distributing homosexual propaganda among minors you know to protect their

innocence from the scary scary gay people but in 2022 Putin signed an amendment that banned any propaganda of

non-traditional relationships across the board no matter your age Russia's oppressive laws were passed in the name

of traditional family values and protecting children which not only gives white Christians nationalists a reason

to Ally with the country Russia is an Orthodox Christian country with traditional social values and for that

reason it must be destroyed but also eerily mirrors the language of some of our own elected officials why do you

think that there is a war against parents right now in America I think it's a war against a family they

indoctrinate children and try to turn boys into girls and we are going to do battle with anybody that's seeking to

Rob our our children of their innocence think about that for a second but just a second because in some places here it's

already happening most Americans are at least aware of Ronda Sis's war on woke especially his so-called don't say gay

bill this bill was signed into Florida law in 2022 and prohibits classroom discussion or instruction of sexuality

or gender in public schools originally it started as kindergarten through third grade but DeSantis recently expanded it

to include all K through 12 grade levels I feel like we just talked about this no

wrong country this law has loosened slightly after multiple lawsuits but it's just one of many extreme anti-lgbtq

laws that have passed under disantis this includes Banning gender affirming care for minors allowing insurers and

providers to discriminate in patient care and hiring and opening the door to remove race or gender studies from

higher ed other states have followed suit erasing queer existence from their educational system Banning gender

affirming care and ensuring anti-lgbtq discrimination at both a state and local

level Owen on the the federal level if white Christian nationalists get their way workplace protections Health Care

access and military service are on the immediate chopping block and so to manufacture consent for these extremist

policies right-wing pundits have been attacking the queer community on repeat often calling for or directly inspiring

violence anti-lgbtq posts from lives with Tik Tok which are often Amplified by elected officials have been linked to

dozens of bomb threats and harassment campaigns against schools libraries and

children's hospitals other Christian nationalist figures have called for queer people doctors and teachers to be

jailed Republicans need to wield the law to arrest these people this is sick sick

stuff people should be arrested for supporting drag time Story Hour these doctors need to be put in prison quickly

or even executed a nurur style trial for every gender affirming Clinic Doctor we

need it immediately and if you come for their kids they're probably going to exercise their second amendment rights I

might kill that person that's where we're at White Christian nationalists seek to take rights away from everybody

they disapprove of and right now the homos top that list but someone has to

come next I cannot stress this enough we have seen this happen before and it

never stops here so think about what they want and if you could live under that because to White Christian

nationalists it is imperative that you conform to their narrow standards this

means following their interpretation of the Bible espousing their political views and acting dressing and living in

a way that they approve of anything else deserves full and robust consequences so

(f) Religion

tell me can you do it now everything we've talked about is being done and said in the name of Jesus Christ even if

it's a version of Jesus that millions of Christians wouldn't recognize nevertheless these tenants are Central

to the white Christian nationalist agenda Authority arianism is necessary to impose that white Christian value

system violence is necessary because those same white Christians are also somehow an oppressed class we have to

disassemble our education system to convert an entire generation to a specific ideology we need to ban

abortion to ensure that women stay in their God assigned roles and we have to get rid of those evil lgbtq groomers

because otherwise they're going to Nuke the nuclear family so it shouldn't be surprising that the last major tenant of

white Christian nationalism that we're going to discuss is religious discrimination the most obvious way they

do this of course is through villainization villainization of Islam you have to admit there is a Muslim

problem in the world there is a reverse crusade in progress a Christian genocide

Islam would gut Christian and Jew alike if it could and has of Judaism Jews have

been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years

talmudic Judaism is Clos to Witchcraft in my opinion I consider these Jews to be domestic enemies right Hinduism I

don't think that the forms or the expressions of God's judgment um merely lie with drag queen Story Hour but that

they also include the fact that my neighborhood is 30% Hindu Buddhism he's

said to be a Buddhist I don't think that Faith offers the kind of forgiveness and Redemption that is offered by the

Christian faith seism she's been exposed as a fake Christian who pimps Christianity for votes while taking part

in third world seek rituals because she's an Indian and of course people with no religion at all do the atheist

in Wisconsin realize they're going to hell your atheism isn't going to stick your wokeism isn't going to stick this

is a Christian Nation like why do we have a bunch of atheists and pagans and power and satanists notice how all of

those faiths were framed as inherently threatening to Christianity especially

Judaism that's because despite spamming the phrase judeo-christian value vales in public much of the white Christian

nationalist vision is built on anti-Semitism especially anti-semitic

conspiracy theories these types of Lies have existed for centuries and historically have been used to justify

racist massacres State sanctioned oppression and the literal genocide of Jews in their current and most popular

iteration anti-semitic conspiracy theories follow much of their predecessors outlines just with new

characters so instead of running the banks and inspiring communists Jews like George Soros control the Tik Tok

algorithm while also still running the banks and inspiring Communists hey if the racist conspiracy theory ain't broke

why fix it oh and by the way white Christian nationalists have similarly vicious things to say about Christians

who don't accept their worldview you know the idea that they should control everything and have dominion over

everybody liberal cucks now the final goal for all of this for everything we talked about is simple Force the entire

country to follow a white Christian nationalist interpretation of the Christian faith but they wouldn't just

cultivate white Christian nationalist beliefs some of them want to explicitly enforce a white Christian nationalist

theocracy where the rules are made by people like Charlie Kirk and the Civil Rights Act though let's be clear created

a beast and that Beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon there is a religious

motive here but as we've discussed throughout this video it's equally political it's about power a white

Christian nationalist theocracy would mean all of those cultural and legislative goals that we've discussed

would be imposed at the same level as religion this is their endgame and we

know that because they tell us the idea that religion and politics do not

mix is is a Lie the devil came up with to keep Christians from running their own country I want to make sure that

everyone believes in what I believe in it's that's everyone needs to believe in

Christianity what I want is a political revolution that puts Christians in the

position to change the laws and the laws will govern the conduct of public and private Affairs like it's that it's that

simple far-right voices have spent decades trying to implement religious requirements for our leaders and ban

non-christians from office and they continue to do so now not only that but they're getting more Brazen about it a

powerful group of white Christian nationalists have now demanded that the next president only consid Supreme Court

nominees that meet their biblical worldview this is scary and it's not

hypothetical because for all of its public flops and online cringe the right is really good at one thing it's long

game and that has most clearly manifested in a little thing called project 2025 written by the Heritage

PART 4: Vision

Foundation an extremely conservative think tank the Mandate for leadership also known as project 2025 and the

presidential transition project is a 900 page guide book for how white Christian nationalists can easily Implement their

goals under a conservative president and that agenda is batshit it paints a picture of a country run under a strict

white Christian nationalist regime it would jettison government services Target anyone who's not a straight white

Christian man and sell any resulting power vacuums to the highest bidder but before we get into the specific policies

of project 2025 let's talk about who's behind it now since project 2025 became

public knowledge many high-ranking political figures have tried to publicly distance themselves from it and I don't

blame them most Americans would rather let RFK Jr pet sit than live under this nightmare for a single day but if you

look at the numbers it's hard to find distance between project 2025 and the last conservative administration of its

almost 280 contributors at least 140 of them worked in that Administration

nearly 2third of its authors and editors worked in it as well and 25 of its 30

chapters were written by Administration officials not only that but this isn't even the Heritage foundation's first

mandate for leadership they've written one of these every election cycle since 1981 and that last conservative

Administration implemented 64% of the 2016 mandate for leadership

policy recommendations within its first year I mean the Heritage foundation's own website brags that that

administration's policies and Supreme Court nominees were based on Heritage advice but no matter who this

hypothetical sympathetic conservative president could be the content of project 2025 can't be ignored the goals

are clear take away freedoms opportunities and a safety net from anyone the Heritage Foundation deems

unworthy it's a wish list for the country's most extreme white Christian nationalists and a blueprint for how to

make those [ __ ] up dreams come true first up consolidating power in their strongman project 2025 calls for taking

partisan control of the doj FBI FCC FTC and Department of Commerce and

eliminating their independence so they would be directly under presidential control additionally tens of thousands

of civil servants would be reclassified as atwi employees and most likely fired

but don't worry they'll be easy to replace with project 2025 Personnel database a digital library of prev

vetted ideological Warriors under a project 2025 government state prosecutors could also face legal action

from the federal government if they don't prosecute offenses that the administration deems Criminal right now

many on the right accuse Democratic states of not Prosecuting enough people of color especially for crimes like

protesting so in a project 2025 world the Federal Government Can abuse their power to make sure that happens oh and

on top of that the doj would use the full force of federal prosecutorial

resources to prosecute any institution public or private for participating in

diversity initiatives I'm glad they have their priorities straight when it comes to education project 2025 proposes

eliminating the doe elevating school choice I.E Charter or religious schools and cutting services for low-income

students like free School meals the Head Start program and federal funds meant for impoverished families teachers

unions would also be eliminated and anything the right deems critical race Theory would be banned from classrooms

project 2025 also appraises the do's decision calling it just the beginning it aims to ban abortion pills erase the

phrase reproductive Health from anywhere in the government and force states to report every unsuccess uccessful

pregnancy to the HHS The Comstock Act of 1873 would get a reboot and any sender or recipient of anything that could be

used for an abortion could be criminally prosecuted to confront radical gender ideology project 2025 proposes resending

any regulations preventing discrimination against sexual orientation gender identity transgender

status or sex characteristics this could also include cisgender women by the way additionally anything that relates to

gender or sexual identity would be removed from from every Federal rule agency regulation contract Grant and

piece of legislation that exists trans kids would have pretty much no access to gender affirming care and while the

Heritage Foundation was at least smart enough to not exclusively commit to Christianity in writing project 2025

does call religious devotion and spirituality the greatest sources of happiness around the world more than

that Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts gives a remarkably limited definition of freedom in his

introduction to project 2025 here's what wrote when the founders spoke of Pursuit of Happiness what they meant might be

understood today as in essence pursuit of blessedness that is an individual must be free to live as his creator

ordained to flourish our constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want but what we ought in other

words in a project 2025 country you only have the freedom to live according to

the Heritage Foundation interpretation of the Bible and this is just the tip of the iceberg like I said it's a 900 page

document there's a a lot of insane [ __ ] in here Banning pornography getting rid of free weather reports a federal

god-ordained Sabbath rest look I'm all for days off but not because God gave them to us unions did immigration would

be attacked from every angle healthare would be gutted and any progress made in the fight against climate change would

be rolled back and worsened tenfold if a president adopted just 64% of these

policies again things would get very bad very fast these people learn their

lesson after 2020 and they want one more shot to make their fascist hellscape a

reality they planning to make it count by dismantling every part of our democracy as fast as possible this is

the only way they can get their white Christian nationalist Vision reshape the society I know this all sounds pretty

PART 5: Hope

scary I don't like thinking about it but ignoring the reality the rhetoric from the far right the goals of project 2025

and the promises made by some of the most extreme people in our government only helps them this all falls apart

under scrutiny yeah it turns out people generally don't like authoritarian theocracies and that's why far-right

figures are trying to publicly distance themselves from Project 2025 but I do

have good news the vast majority of Americans don't want to live in a project 2025 reality and we still have

time to make sure we don't have to like I said this stuff falls apart under scrutiny that's why maybe the most

important thing you can do in the fight against authoritarianism is talk about it call it out and make sure other

people know what's happening talk to the people in your life tell them what you've learned hell send this video to

them because we should all be on alert for white Christian nationalist rhetoric especially when it comes from people who

are trying to gain power in our communities if we know it then we can identify it and if we can identify it

then we can resist it in a similar vein it is also vitally important to sound

the alarm publicly speaking out against white Christian nationalism project 2025

and far-right goals sends a message that this kind of authoritarianism and this

kind of bigotry will not be tolerated whether it's in conversations with your friends social media posts or just

generally in public discussion and announcement of this agenda spreads the word and makes a stand finally mobilize

resistance when you see white Christian nationalism arising in your community like I've said the state and local

levels are especially vulnerable to this kind of far-right maneuvering and they want you to ignore them so being active

in your community watching your area officials and using your voice publicly can make a world of difference not just

for you but for all of the people around you write letters to the editor figure out who your local reporters are and

bring attention to any white Christian nationalist attempt to hijack your town or state government you can also donate

to my friends at the people for the American way Foundation which partnered with me to make this video they work toward a vision of a vibrant America

where basic freedoms and rights are upheld for all and they're often the first people to call out underreported

white Christian nationalist plans a political revolution that puts Christians in the position to change the

laws remember everything we've talked about those are not hypotheticals why Christian nationalists have already

enacted parts of this plan at these state and local levels we need to not only fight against it now but make sure

that doesn't spread any further and it's truly up to all of us to make sure that

doesn't happen