Unmasking MAGA, Part 3: The Fake Christians
They preach about saving souls—but they’re hellbent on conquering power.
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We don’t call them “Fake Christians” because they sin. Everyone “sins”.
We call them that because they’ve systematically replaced Christ’s teachings with political conquest—and dared to call it faith.
This faction doesn’t follow the Sermon on the Mount. It follows talking points and tax cuts.
It doesn’t wash feet. It fundraises for fascism, blesses billionaires, and demonizes the vulnerable.
These are not flawed believers trying to live by grace. These are operatives using Christianity as a blunt instrument:
To silence dissent
To control women
To demonize LGBTQ+ people
To turn pulpits into platforms for the corporatist and fascist agendas
They don’t just excuse authoritarianism.
They sanctify it.
They give fascists a divine veneer—casting cruelty as righteousness, and turning tyranny into “God’s will.”
They’ve turned churches into campaign offices. They’ve rewritten the gospel to serve the state.
And in doing so, they’ve betrayed not just democracy—but the very Jesus they claim to serve.
Who Are They?
They speak in parables—but legislate in threats.
The Fake Christians aren’t a denomination. They’re a faction.
A political class dressed in vestments—preachers, pundits, administrators, and power brokers who’ve hollowed out the teachings of Christ and filled the shell with nationalism, cruelty, and control.
This isn’t about sincere believers. This is about those who’ve weaponized Christianity to seize power—and sold their flocks, classrooms, and congregations to the highest bidder in the process.
Some are militant. Some are mercenary.
Some are True Believers who think Jesus needs a strongman.
Others are cynical grifters who saw an opportunity and took it.
What unites them is this:
They have replaced the gospel with a gun, a flag, and a billionaire’s check.
In short, by Fake Christians, we mean those who weaponize Christianity as a tool of control—casting cruelty as righteousness and sanctifying authoritarianism in the name of Jesus.
Who They Are Not
They are not just Evangelicals.
They are not just Protestants.
They are not defined by theology—they are defined by allegiance.
While many are drawn from Southern Baptist and white Evangelical traditions, the Fake Christian faction includes:
Catholic theocrats who elevate doctrine over democracy
Charismatic Pentecostals who mix divine prophecy with campaign rallies
And leaders from other Christian groups who’ve traded spiritual integrity for political influence
It’s not about scripture.
It’s about power wrapped in scripture—and weaponized to serve a movement, not a Messiah.
Where They Operate
You’ll find them:
At megachurches, where million-dollar sound systems deliver culture war sermons that never mention poverty, peace, or compassion
On Christian campuses and private schools, where the mission has shifted from teaching faith to producing foot soldiers
On cable, radio, and livestreams, building massive audiences by stoking fear, rage, and the illusion of holy war
This is not just Sunday morning politics. It’s a full-spectrum ecosystem—designed to form identity, shape worldview, and create unwavering loyalty to the MAGA machine.
The Spectrum
🔴 The Dominionists
The hardcore theocrats. They believe America was founded as a Christian nation and must be ruled as one—with biblical law imposed through government power.
They don’t want religious freedom. They want religious rule—their version of it, enforced by the state.
These are the pastors and politicians who say God chose Trump, that laws should reflect “Christian values,” and that democracy is dangerous if it allows sinners to win.
🟠 The Culture War Clergy
Pastors, influencers, and televangelists who monetize outrage—preaching against feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, and “wokeism” to maintain relevance and revenue.
They thrive on perpetual grievance, and many are funded by corporatists to deliver voter turnout and moral cover for policies that have nothing to do with Christianity.
🟡 The Political Parishioners
The rank-and-file who’ve been fed a steady diet of fear, decline, and betrayal from their pulpits, schools, and media for decades.
Many are sincere in their faith—but have been conditioned to equate Republican power with divine favor, and to see any political loss as spiritual persecution.
They don’t all wear the same robes.
They don’t all preach the same gospel.
But they’ve all made the same exchange:
Truth for power. Grace for vengeance. God for MAGA.
Origin Story
They didn’t start in politics. They were pulled in—by design.
Christianity in America is as old as the country itself. But for most of our history, Christians weren’t a unified political bloc. They were scattered across denominations, regions, and ideologies. Some voted Republican. Others voted Democrat. Most didn’t vote as a religious group at all.
Faith was personal. Politics was separate.
That changed—not because of Roe v. Wade, as the myth goes—but because of Brown v. Board of Education.
When the Supreme Court ordered schools desegregated, a wave of white Christian parents fled into private “segregation academies”—many of them cloaked as religious institutions. And when the federal government threatened to revoke their tax-exempt status, the backlash began.
It wasn’t abortion that politicized the Christian Right.
It was integration.
That’s when Paul Weyrich saw an opportunity. A corporatist strategist and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Weyrich knew that his economic policies—tax cuts, deregulation, union busting—weren’t going to move voters on their own. But faith? Faith could mobilize the masses.
He began organizing with segregationist pastors like Jerry Falwell Sr., testing the waters with issues like school prayer and “religious freedom.” But the movement needed a banner that could broaden its appeal beyond race—especially as public support for overt segregation began to wane.
For a deeper dive into how Weyrich and other corporatist operatives fused religion, profit, and authoritarianism into a single machine, see: The Real Deep State.
That banner came into view in 1978, during a Senate race in Iowa.
There, Republican Roger Jepsen unseated a Democrat by running hard on the abortion issue. Catholic voters turned out in force—and Weyrich saw the writing on the wall.
Abortion was that banner.
It offered moral urgency, political clarity, and—crucially—a way to unite white Evangelicals and white Catholics around a shared crusade that didn’t sound like segregation, but served the same power structure.
With that success as proof of concept, Weyrich and Falwell launched the Moral Majority in 1979.
Together, they created the template for what we now call Christian nationalism:
Mobilize churches around moral panic
Blame liberals for every cultural shift
Funnel outrage into Republican votes
And in exchange, promise power over courts, education, and reproductive rights
The Real Merger
This was the inflection point.
The fascists—abandoned by the Democratic Party as it embraced civil rights—had already begun migrating into the Republican base.
The Corporatists, remnants of the Gilded Age GOP and longtime opponents of the New Deal, still held the economic keys—but lacked the mass movement needed to win elections.
The Fake Christians, newly radicalized and politically mobilized, became the foot soldiers: the moral shield, the turnout machine, and the cultural engine.
And standing alongside them were the Warhawks—the Cold War-era nationalists and imperialists who had long defined Republican foreign policy.
We’ll explore them in the next part of this series.
Together, these four factions—fascists, corporatists, warhawks, and Fake Christians—merged into a single political coalition under Ronald Reagan.
In my view, this may have been the single most important turning point in modern American history:
The moment when economic power, religious absolutism, racial grievance, and militarism combined into the unified force we now call the Republican Party.
It worked.
Better than anyone expected.
Fake Christians didn’t just help win Reagan’s election.
They helped define what Republican power would mean for the next 40 years.
They became the moral fuel for every crusade that followed.
In the Reagan years, they cheered tax cuts for the rich as divine reward and looked away as AIDS ravaged a population they considered disposable. Homosexuality wasn’t just taboo—it was treated as a curse, and inaction as righteousness.
They gave a polished voice to the racial resentment of fascists who were, for a time, politically sidelined. With phrases like “welfare queens” and “family values,” they pushed narratives that justified gutting the social safety net—knowing full well it would harm poor white communities too.
But they didn’t care. They were happy to cut off their nose to spite their face, as long as they believed someone darker was bleeding more.In the Clinton years, they kept the moral panic alive—fueling backlash to feminism, LGBTQ+ visibility, and gangsta rap, while quietly endorsing bipartisan welfare reform that devastated millions. It wasn’t policy. It was punishment, dressed as principle.
In the Bush years, they became the moral impetus for the War on Terror, turning global conflict into a holy war. The invasion of Iraq was framed as a fight between good and evil. Islam was otherized as inherently violent. And inside the U.S., Muslims were treated not as neighbors but as enemies.
In the Obama years, they turned their pulpits into platforms for birtherism, questioning the legitimacy of America’s first Black president, casting him as un-American, un-Christian, and unworthy.
They didn’t just oppose his policies—they helped lay the groundwork for the fascist narrative that would later define Trump’s rise.As the culture began to move—slowly, imperfectly—toward greater inclusion, the Fake Christians doubled down. With same-sex marriage no longer a winning wedge, they found a new target: trans people.
They cast them as predators, erased their humanity, and turned their very existence into a battlefield.
Under the guise of “protecting children,” they launched a full-spectrum assault— banning care, threatening parents and doctors with prison, and pushing laws to erase trans people from public life..
It wasn’t just bigotry. It was strategy—a moral panic engineered to rekindle grievance, distract from class warfare, and unify their coalition through a common enemy.
They weren’t defending faith.
They were deploying it—as a tool of governance, exclusion, and revenge.
And then there was Donald Trump.
A man who violated almost every commandment they claimed to revere.
A man whose cruelty was so brazen it should have shattered the illusion.
And yet—he became their golden calf.
Why?
Because he delivered.
Judges.
Court cases.
Tax breaks.
Retribution.
He didn’t pretend to be holy.
He promised them power—and they anointed him anyway.
If there were ever to be an anti-Christ, he might not look like a monster.
He might look like a king in a red hat, flanked by pastors, waving a Bible he’s never read.
And while Fake Christians waged culture war in public, they were waging legal war in the shadows. From Roe v. Wade onward, they turned the federal judiciary into their long game. They built legal outfits like the Alliance Defending Freedom, flooded law schools with ideologues, groomed judges through the Federalist Society, and partnered with corporatists to reshape the courts from the inside out.
For decades, they lost ground in public opinion—but won ground in legal precedent.
And then, in 2022, they got what they always wanted:
The Dobbs v. Jackson decision overturned Roe.
It didn’t just end federal abortion rights.
It was the culmination of a 50-year campaign to turn moral panic into law.
This wasn’t democracy.
It was theocracy in robes.
This is the throughline—from Falwell to Trump, from suppression to submission.
They weren’t hijacked by politics.
They became politics—by design.
What Are Their Core Values?
They talk about Christ—but what they really worship is control.
The Fake Christians don’t live by the Beatitudes.
They don’t measure righteousness in mercy, or love, or justice.
Their gospel is power, dressed in scripture.
Their values aren’t spiritual. They’re strategic.
Here’s what defines them:
Power Over Principle
Fake Christians talk about God’s will, but what they really serve is their own dominion.
If democracy threatens their agenda? Undermine it.
If violence delivers the outcome? Justify it.
If truth gets in the way? Rewrite it.
Their faith is not about salvation.
It’s about justifying conquest in God’s name.
Theocracy Disguised as Freedom
They claim to defend religious liberty—but only their version of it.
What they really want is a Christianized state, where:
Public schools teach their beliefs
Laws reflect their doctrine
And dissenters are punished or erased
They don’t want pluralism.
They want exclusive moral authority backed by state power.
Punishment as Policy
From abortion bans to anti-trans laws, they don’t legislate compassion.
They legislate cruelty—and call it conviction.
Whether it’s:
Denying care to queer teens
Arresting women for miscarriages
Banning books, drag shows, or sex education
—every policy is built on the belief that suffering is redemptive—if it’s happening to the right people.
Projection as a Weapon
They scream about grooming while protecting abusers.
They demand obedience while preaching “freedom.”
They claim persecution while wielding enormous cultural and political power.
Whatever they accuse others of, they’re usually doing it louder.
Satanic Panic as Strategy
For Fake Christians, disagreement isn’t just wrong. It’s evil.
And once you’re evil? Anything becomes permissible.
They don’t argue policies. They declare holy war.
LGBTQ+ rights? Demonic agenda.
Public education? Indoctrination.
Progressive Christians? Heretics.
There’s no room for disagreement—only enemies.
Idolatry of the State
They talk about Christ as King, but their real religion is America as God’s chosen nation, and the Republican Party as His right hand.
They don’t separate church from state.
They merge flag, cross, and gun into a single sacred symbol.
And they follow leaders not for their morality—but for their willingness to wield vengeance.
They still use the words of Jesus.
But they’ve reversed their meaning.
Mercy became judgment.
Service became dominance.
Faith became politics.
Their gospel isn’t “blessed are the peacemakers.”
It’s blessed are the powerful—especially if they say “Amen” after the damage is done.
Key Figures
They didn’t just preach. They mobilized. They radicalized. And they won.
The Fake Christian movement isn’t a spontaneous uprising of moral concern.
It’s the result of decades of planning, media empires, political engineering, and strategic alliances—led by pastors, televangelists, lawyers, pundits, and billionaires who rewrote the gospel to serve the state.
Some claim to speak for God.
Others just know how to sell Him.
The Founders and Architects
Jerry Falwell Sr. – The architect of modern Christian nationalism. Founder of the Moral Majority, Falwell was a segregationist preacher turned political kingmaker. He transformed white evangelical grievance into a national voting bloc—and gave it a flag, a pulpit, and a party.
Paul Weyrich – Not a pastor, but without him, the machine doesn’t exist. A corporatist strategist, Weyrich saw religious voters not as souls to save, but as tools to harness. He co-founded the Heritage Foundation, engineered the religious school tax exemption crisis, and helped reframe the culture war around abortion to unify and weaponize the religious right.
James Dobson – Founder of Focus on the Family, Dobson built a media empire that helped mainstream patriarchal theology and right-wing propaganda under the guise of “family values.” He advised multiple presidents and played a central role in training Christian conservatives to vote their faith—and fear.
The Legal Theocrats
Ralph Reed – Executive director of the Christian Coalition, Reed modernized religious right mobilization into a digital, data-driven operation. He fused voter guides, mailing lists, and megachurch networks into a national political machine—and helped bridge the gap between church and campaign.
Tony Perkins – Head of the Family Research Council, Perkins has spent decades lobbying for anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, and anti-secular legislation. His organization has been designated a hate group by the SPLC, and yet he’s treated as a “values voice” in mainstream politics.
Kristen Waggoner – President of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful legal engine behind anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion legislation. ADF writes the laws, defends them in court, and trains Christian lawyers to dismantle civil rights under the banner of “religious freedom.”
The Political Enablers
They don’t preach from the pulpit. They legislate from the bench, the mic, and the floor.
Fake Christians provide the theology.
These figures turn it into law, amplify it on national stages, and use it to attack democracy under the banner of “faith.”
Speaker Mike Johnson – The most powerful elected Christian nationalist in the country. A former constitutional lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom, Johnson brings a theocratic worldview to the Speaker’s chair. He sees the law as a tool to enforce biblical values and has openly described his political vision as “submitted to Christ.”
He doesn’t believe in separation of church and state. He believes in submission of state to church.
Marjorie Taylor Greene – A conspiracy-pilled performance artist who quotes scripture between threats. Greene blends Christian nationalism with apocalyptic rhetoric and militant populism. She’s called the separation of church and state a “myth” and proudly declares the U.S. a Christian nation—as she calls for mass arrests, deportations, and violence.
Her gospel is punishment—and Trump is her messiah.
Lauren Boebert – A gun-brandishing, sermon-spouting hardliner who once declared “the church is supposed to direct the government.” Boebert embodies the MAGA fusion of frontier libertarianism and evangelical dominionism. Her role isn’t policy. It’s provocation in the name of God.
She doesn’t legislate. She incants.
These aren’t religious thinkers.
They’re political actors turning faith into law—and law into a weapon.
Together, they show what happens when a faction stops preaching values and starts codifying vengeance.
The Culture War Evangelists and Propaganda Class
Franklin Graham – Son of Billy Graham, but stripped of grace. Franklin turned his father’s legacy of ecumenical outreach into a MAGA pulpit of grievance and white nationalism. He blesses every GOP culture war, defends every authoritarian move, and publicly proclaims Trump as “God’s chosen.”
Eric Metaxas – Author, radio host, and Christian nationalist pundit, Metaxas openly defended January 6th and regularly pushes election denialism, anti-vaccine conspiracies, and Christo-fascist rhetoric cloaked in historical fiction.
Charlie Kirk – Founder of Turning Point USA, Kirk is not a theologian, but he plays one online. He panders to young evangelicals by fusing prosperity gospel, cultural panic, and billionaire-funded political disinformation into a seamless pipeline of rage, misogyny, and Christ-branded capitalism.
The Infrastructure
Focus on the Family – Founded by Dobson, this media empire reaches millions with right-wing messaging disguised as family counseling. It promotes “biblical masculinity,” anti-trans hysteria, and Christian dominion through radio, podcasts, schools, and lobbying arms.
Alliance Defending Freedom – The legal weapon of the Fake Christian movement. Behind the anti-trans bills, the forced birth lawsuits, and the dismantling of LGBTQ+ rights. It doesn’t just fight culture wars—it drafts the battlefield.
Liberty University – A training ground for theocratic governance, founded by Falwell. Offers a direct pipeline from pulpit to legislature—feeding interns, lawyers, and politicians into the Christian Right’s political infrastructure.
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) – Founded by Pat Robertson, CBN helped create the blueprint for turning televangelism into electoral power. From The 700 Club to election coverage, it blurred the line between prophecy and propaganda.
Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax – The megaphone.
These networks gave Fake Christian leaders the power to perform moral outrage in front of millions, daily. Under Roger Ailes, Fox perfected the formula:Righteous anger
Simplified morality
A charismatic enemy
It turned fake piety into political currency—and turned a national news channel into a permanent Sunday sermon, interrupted only by gold ads and prepper gear.
These aren’t faith leaders.
They’re power brokers, media executives, propagandists, and political operatives—cloaking authoritarianism in scripture and building a church that bows to Caesar.
They don’t speak for the gospel.
They speak for the regime.
How Did They End Up in the MAGA Coalition?
Because he didn’t need to be holy. He just needed to be useful.
Donald Trump was everything they claimed to despise:
A serial adulterer
A casino mogul
A man who bragged about sexual assault
A blasphemer who couldn’t name a single Bible verse
And yet, the Fake Christians didn’t flinch.
They flocked.
They didn’t fall for him. They chose him—because he gave them something no other candidate could:
Unconditional loyalty.
While past Republicans gave them lip service, Trump offered deliverables:
Supreme Court seats
Federal judges groomed by the Federalist Society
The end of Roe
Unchecked license to discriminate under the guise of “religious liberty”
The political persecution of their enemies—from drag queens to librarians to trans kids
And in return, they gave him what only they could provide:
A theological firewall
A righteous army of voters
And a narrative of divine anointment to shield him from accountability
They didn’t join MAGA because they were deceived.
They joined because MAGA gave them permission to do what they had always wanted to do—abandon grace and embrace vengeance, with the full blessing of the state.
Trump wasn’t a betrayal of their values.
He was a mirror—held up to reveal what those values had become.
A gospel with no Christ.
A faith with no humility.
A church with no mercy.
Just power, grievance, and the man who would promise them both.
What’s Their Role in the Coalition?
They’re not the head of the beast. They’re the heart—and sometimes the halo.
The Fake Christians aren’t policy wonks.
They’re not billionaires or war planners.
But without them, the MAGA coalition falls apart.
They are the storytellers, the moral cover, the soul-renters of the regime.
Here’s what they bring to the table:
🗳 Turnout Machine
No one turns out voters like the church. Period.
From pulpits to prayer chains to Facebook groups, the Fake Christian network can activate millions on a single culture war headline.
They are the field army—motivated by prophecy, fear, and Fox News.
🕊 Moral Legitimacy
While the fascists break laws and the corporatists hoard wealth, the Fake Christians bless it all.
They offer spiritual justification for every cruel policy, every undemocratic maneuver, every scapegoating campaign.
They make the agenda feel righteous.
🎭 Emotional Framing
The culture war is more than strategy—it’s story.
And the Fake Christians know how to tell it:
They’re the victims.
Liberals are the persecutors.
Their beliefs are under attack.
Their suffering is holy.
This narrative doesn’t just mobilize. It radicalizes.
⚔️ Shield for the Guilty
Every time MAGA crosses a moral line, the Fake Christians are there to offer redemption—not through repentance, but through absolution by allegiance.
It’s not about grace.
It’s about loyalty to the flag, the leader, and the fight.
Without the Fake Christians:
The fascists look like thugs.
The corporatists look like thieves.
The warhawks look like relics.
But with them?
It all looks like God’s plan.
They don’t just hold the coalition together.
They make its cruelty sacred.
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What Is Their Relationship With Other Subgroups?
They bless some, tolerate others, and quietly war with the rest.
The Fake Christians are the moral spine of the MAGA coalition—and in many ways, its most adaptive faction. They don’t always agree with the other groups. Sometimes they clash. But they understand something the others don’t:
Power is sacred—if you can pretend it’s holy.
Here’s how they relate to the rest of the monster.
✅ Alignment
Corporatists
This is a marriage of convenience—and influence.
The Corporatists bankroll the machine; the Fake Christians deliver the votes. In exchange for judges, tax exemptions, and legal latitude, they’ve become the PR department for oligarchy—selling deregulation and social cruelty as “freedom” and “family values.”
Warhawks
From the Cold War to the War on Terror, the Fake Christians provided the moral justification for endless war. They reframed invasions as spiritual battles and cast America’s military dominance as divine providence.
God, guns, and glory—all on the same bumper sticker.
Conspiracy Theorists
It’s not always a tight alliance—but it’s fertile ground.
The Fake Christians may not invent the conspiracies, but they baptize them.
QAnon, anti-vax rhetoric, election denialism—once it’s framed as “spiritual warfare,” anything can find a home in the pews.
⚠️ Divergence
Fascists
This is a case of rival moral claims.
The Fascists demand loyalty to the state. The Fake Christians demand loyalty to God. But increasingly, that line has blurred.
Still, the tension remains: the Fascists want purity and control; the Fake Christians want submission and salvation. They collaborate, but they don’t fully trust each other.
Libertarians
The Fake Christians want a moral order. The Libertarians want to burn it down.
They clash over censorship, religious imposition, and the idea of any centralized morality.
The alliance holds—but only because both sides loathe “the left” more than they loathe each other.
🟡 Neutral
Blue Collars
There’s overlap in values—faith, patriotism, distrust of elites—but the relationship is more cultural than strategic.
Many blue-collar workers attend the churches that drive this movement, but the Fake Christian leadership mostly sees them as muscle, not minds.
Red Pillers
There’s shared misogyny and moral panic—but different frameworks.
Red Pillers view women as evolutionary threats. Fake Christians view them as divine property.
They agree on the ends, but disagree on the language—and sometimes on the level of shame required.
They don’t love every part of the coalition.
But they know how to preach unity when it suits them, and ignore heresy when it gets them power.
In a movement built on rage, they’re the ones who bring ritual, story, and redemption—as long as the right people are getting punished.
Exploiting Wedge Issues
The cracks are already there. Push.
The Fake Christians aren’t naturally aligned with everyone in the MAGA coalition.
Some allies they distrust. Others they quietly condescend to.
The alliances hold—but only because the war is still on.
That’s your opportunity.
Expose the contradictions.
Agitate the discomfort.
Make them choose: faith or faction.
he Fascists Want the State. You Want the Cross.
Fake Christians preach about a higher authority.
Fascists want the state to be that authority.
They don’t want God in power. They want themselves in power—and they’ll use religion until it gets in the way.
Wedge angle:
“They want loyalty to the flag, not the cross. You’re not their equal. You’re their tool.”
Point out how quickly the Fascists drop the mask once they’ve consolidated control—and how the church always gets sidelined when the jackboots take over.
ibertarians Want Freedom. You Want Obedience.
Libertarians believe morality is personal.
Fake Christians believe morality should be law.
They share a disdain for liberals—but after that? It’s all friction.
Wedge angle:
“They think drag shows are free expression. You think they’re blasphemy. So why are you sharing a tent?”
Push on cultural flashpoints: drugs, pornography, religious coercion, public prayer.
Libertarians don’t want to be told what to do—especially not by someone else’s scripture.
The Blue Collars Show Up—But Keep Getting Sold Out.
Many working-class voters attend the churches driving this movement.
But Fake Christian leadership is often elitist, suburban, and careerist—more focused on legal fights and fundraising than actual working people.
Wedge angle:
“They called you essential—then cheered for policies that cut your wages, blocked your healthcare, and closed your union hall.”
This wedge turns spiritual loyalty into class betrayal.
Push the idea that the pastors got power—and the workers got played.
ed Pillers Want Conquest. You Want Order.
Red Pillers and Fake Christians both believe men should lead.
But Red Pillers reject family, sacrifice, and fidelity—the core of what Fake Christians say marriage is all about.
Red Pillers glorify casual sex, emotional detachment, and selfish gain.
They mock the idea of love. They worship dominance. And they treat women as disposable.
Wedge angle:
“You say marriage is a covenant. They say it’s a scam. So why are you fighting the same war?”
You’re not challenging their shared patriarchy—you’re challenging whether these are really your people.
Each of these factions is tolerated for now.
But when the war for power gets harder, coalitions fray.
You’re not attacking their faith.
You’re revealing their false fellowship.
And if they start looking sideways at their allies…
That’s when the cracks become breaks.
Creating a Sense of Betrayal
They didn’t just betray democracy. They betrayed the values they claim to uphold—and that many of us still do.
This isn’t about faith vs. politics.
It’s about those who’ve used faith to justify betrayal, and those who are left wondering what happened to the values they once believed in.
If you’ve ever felt that disconnect—you’re not alone.
Here are four values many of us share—and how the movement has abandoned them.
Value: Faith in Christ’s Teachings
“You believe in grace, humility, and compassion. So do I. But they’ve turned Christ into a mascot for cruelty.”
Jesus taught mercy for the poor, love for enemies, and grace for sinners.
But today’s leaders cheer vengeance, mock the vulnerable, and preach domination.
They’ve made loyalty to power the new path to salvation.
If Christ stood in their sanctuary today—would he be preaching? Or flipping tables?
If you still believe in the gospel… is this really what it looks like?
Value: Scripture as a Moral Anchor
“You believe the Bible is sacred. So do I. But they’re using it like a political weapon.”
They cherry-pick verses to target LGBTQ+ people, control women, and justify cruelty—while ignoring scripture’s overwhelming calls for justice, humility, and love.
What was once a moral compass has become a partisan bludgeon.
If scripture is still holy to you—why are they treating it like opposition research?
Value: Protecting the Innocent—Especially Children
“You believe children should be protected from harm. So do I. But they protected the predators instead.”
In 2022, the Southern Baptist Convention was exposed for covering up abuse by more than 700 pastors and leaders (additional source)—moving them across the country, quietly, without warning new congregations.
The victims were often children.
The coverup went to the very top.
And the same leaders who rail about “groomers” and “drag queens” were shielding abusers inside the church for decades.
This wasn’t a failure.
It was a conscious choice to protect the institution, not the children.
If protecting kids is still a value you hold sacred—how can this be your sanctuary?
Value: Church as a Place of Peace and Service
“You believe the church should heal, not divide. So do I. But look at what it’s become.”
The sanctuary was once a refuge. A place of quiet faith and mutual support.
Now it’s a platform for outrage, political strategy, and social war.
The pulpit is a stage. The message is a slogan. The mission is control.
If you still believe in the church as a force for good—can this still be called church?
Value: Loyalty to Community and Each Other
“You believe this movement would protect you. So did many. But they gave you fear—and took your future.”
They promised strength, revival, moral victory.
But what did they actually deliver?
Families divided.
Young people walking away.
Leaders growing richer while congregants grow resentful.
If your loyalty is to your neighbors, your children, your values—is this still your fight?
You still care about faith.
You still care about integrity.
So do we.
That’s why we’re asking:
If this is what they’ve become… is it still where you belong?
A Faith Hijacked
They said they were defending Christianity.
What they’ve actually built is something else entirely.
A movement that preaches obedience over compassion.
Power over truth.
Fear over grace.
They claimed to speak for the Gospel—
But used it to shield predators, punish the vulnerable, and justify cruelty.
If you ever felt betrayed, abandoned, or used by this machine—
You’re not alone. And you’re not wrong.
Faith is not the enemy.
But when faith is hijacked by fascists, corporatists, and liars in clerical collars—it stops being sacred and starts being strategic.
They weren’t defending God.
They were building a political empire—brick by brick, pulpit by pulpit.
And every empire needs enforcers.
Next: The Warhawks
They weren’t the loudest in the room.
But they had the map, the budget, and the trigger finger.
They didn’t need slogans.
They had doctrine, defense contracts, and bipartisan backing.
From Vietnam to Iraq, from drone strikes to regime change, the Warhawks shaped a world where American dominance was always the answer—and violence was always on the table.
They built the arsenal behind the ideology.
They wrote the policies that outlasted presidents.
They called it national security—but it looked a lot like empire.
In Part 4, we follow the generals, the strategists, and the civilians who built the war machine.
And we ask:
What happens when a country confuses global supremacy with national identity?
And how do you stop a faction that sees every problem as a battlefield?
This is an amazing read I don't have time to finish atm, saving for later reading for sure. The libertarian piece of this puzzle is in Nancy MacLean's book "Democracy in Chains", which goes into the economist James Buchanan and Charles Koch's part in all of this, and what I've read so far of this fits it as if it were cut with a jig saw. There are about a hundred other libertarian think tanks beyond Heritage, all of them dedicated to Kevin Roberts' "bloodless revolution". That is, hollowing out the USG beurocracy to as Koch/Buchanan called it, "enchain Leviathan", (another biblical reference), Buchanan's beef also goes back to Brown. The aim is to end the people's ability to act collectively, Koch started fuding them all in the late 90s, early 00s (think Mercatus center, ALEC, Cato Institute et al). It's wild that all of this stuff is pretty much the conspiracy hidden behind all the other conspiracies.
It is actually a good thing the libertarian faction doesn't align "perfectly" with the CN faction, cause eventually, they will butt heads, and that may be our only hope....