Christian nationalism’s white supremacy crisis: Bitter battle on the far right Christian podcast host “canceled” over long history of ugly racist tweets as war breaks out on religious right

A funny thing happened on the road to the right wing reclaiming the label “Christian nationalism”: Its chief proponents confirmed the worst accusations made against them, through their own words.  Over the last week, the Christian right has been embroiled in a mystery-turned-scandal over whether a bestselling new book, “The Case for Christian Nationalism,” is connected to other, seedier corners of the far right making a related case for explicit white nationalism, antisemitism and misogyny as well. (No, not those antisemites, other ones.) The short answer is yes.  Donald Trump’s presidency and the Jan. 6 insurrection turned a national spotlight on Christian nationalism as one of the chief ideologies that enabled both. Over the last two years, a wealth of books and articles have examined Christian nationalism from the left, center and, very often, from within Christian communities themselves. But the attention soon sparked a backlash, and the gradual-then-sudden drive for right-wing Christians to claim the label as a badge of honor. That was visible at the National Conservatism conference this September, in religious and political leaders from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Southern Baptist Albert Mohler embracing the term and in people like former Trump staffer William Wolfe declaring that while “Cynical, secular, & anti-God” progressives had tried to use “Christian nationalism” as a “slur” to demonize the right, they had instead transformed the label “into a rallying cry for a movement.”

via salon: Christian nationalism’s white supremacy crisis: Bitter battle on the far right Christian podcast host “canceled” over long history of ugly racist tweets as war breaks out on religious right