Christian nationalists are key, if not indispensable, members of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement and the larger neofascist coalition. In Trump, they see a type of martyr and prophet who is a weapon for them and their God to create a Christofascist theocracy and Apartheid state. Christian Nationalists sincerely and deeply believe that they are fighting to preserve “their way of life” and “traditional American values” in a titanic battle between “good and evil” – where, of course, like other religious zealots, they are God’s elect as opposed to villains and evildoers.
As public opinion and other research has repeatedly shown, Christian nationalists (White Christian supremacists) and those allied with them believe in and support the use of political violence as a way of achieving their revolutionary plans for American society. The support for political violence and other cruelty by Christian nationalists and other members of the Christian right is also legitimated by their belief that the world is in a mythological End Times battle. Donald Trump, a masterful propagandist, has repeatedly signaled to this through his repeated use of language such as a “final battle” and need to get collective “revenge” on the Democrats and other “enemies” of so-called real America.
