The theological and political fault lines in the New American Right are no longer just cracking; they are splitting wide open. Institutions that once held the movement together are unraveling at the seams in real time. In a dramatic escalation…
‘Pro-family’ groups stick with Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson’s easygoing Oct. 27 interview with Nick Fuentes, a popular young racist and antisemite who reveres Adolf Hitler, has forced Republicans to clarify whether they oppose all antisemitism or just antisemites on the Left. So far, conservative and pro-family…
Christian Zionism strikes back
The battle lines have been drawn, and they are theological. On one side is the Nick Fuentes-Tucker Carlson wing of ethno-nationalism, which espouses a form of Catholic integralism or “blood-and-soil” traditionalism. On the other side is the most powerful grassroots…
Russell Moore sounds alarm about evangelicals accepting Nazis
Add Russell Moore to the list of evangelicals warning about how too many conservatives are warming up to antisemitism and Nazi nostalgia. The Christianity Today columnist and former head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission wrote a…
Women are the problem?
Really? Women are the problem? I read with incredulity and some humor the words of Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson as they pontificated in a recent interview about how women are the reason young people aren’t getting married. Rick Pidcock…
No Enemies to the Right? Inside the GOP’s new civil war
A new fault line is quickly dividing American conservatism: A political strategy called “No Enemies to the Right.” This philosophy, sometimes abbreviated NETR, operates on a simple logic: All political “punching” must be directed toward the Left, which is seen…
Women are the problem, Carlson and Fuentes declare
“It’s the women,” conservative white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes smugly declared on the Tucker Carlson show in response to Carlson asking why young people aren’t getting married these days. “The men are extremely conservative, increasingly,” he intoned. “The women are…
Christian groups praise Trump’s ‘healthy masculinity’ and ‘manifest destiny reborn’
As President Donald Trump ushers in unprecedented (and possibly illegal) changes in presidential power and the federal government, his actions have been “welcomed and celebrated by those in the pro-life” and “pro-family” movement, says a Family Research Council article titled…
Tucker Carlson seeing demons in his bedroom is not a good sign
Tucker Carlson claims he was “physically assaulted” by a demon in his bedroom. The deposed Fox News host made this news public in a documentary, Christianities?, hosted by John Heers and directed by Scooter Downey, an Eastern Orthodox Christian who served as…
Heritage Foundation’s antisemitism effort ignores Jewish groups
When the Heritage Foundation announced its new Project Esther, including a National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, last November, it promised a “new coalition of Jewish, Christian and conservative nonprofits.” But the effort has been hampered by a host of…
Sexually harassing a nation
I have been watching social media as people are responding to the recent uptick of violent sexual rhetoric targeting women (and everyone, really) from former President Donald Trump and those from his inner circle. This aspect of the Trump campaign…
Jeffress gets a shoutout from Trump in Arizona
Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress got a shoutout from Donald Trump last week at a rally in Phoenix. Trump was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, who was fired from Fox News for lying but who continues to be an ardent Trump…