A recent Politico piece profiled the so-called "Christian Nationalist" movement, in particular focusing on William Wolfe, a former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary student and Trump administration staffer.
What marks Christian Nationalism according to the reporters, and what are Wolfe's chief concerns? According to the piece, the key issues are overturning Obergefell, restricting abortion access, and, horror of horrors apparently, requiring fathers to support their children.
As if needing to double down, one of the authors went on MSNBC to say, in not so many words, that Thomas Jefferson is apparently a Christian Nationalist:
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Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.
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