Imani K. Bryant

White Christian nationalists favor strong, authoritarian leaders who espouse a semi-secularized version of their rhetoric, which is how Christian Nationalists found their champion in Trump. Their ideology is American fascism repurposed and repackaged for the 21st century, and white Christian Nationalism is its theology. To understand how we arrived at this moment, we need to examine the origins of this belief system—and how it has been embedded in America from the beginning.