J.D. Vance’s “unequally yoked” remarks echo deep-rooted Christian nationalist dog whistles.
His treatment of his wife exposes the movement’s hypocrisy around marriage, gender, and power.
Breaking that yoke means replacing fear-based control with compassion, empathy, and love.
Christian nationalism hides its hunger for domination behind talk of holiness and family, but as Andra and Ryan unpack, it’s a system built on fear, hierarchy, and shame. The idea that believers must never be “unequally yoked” doesn’t just divide marriages — it underwrites a worldview that denies equal belonging to anyone outside its ranks. J.D. Vance’s staged piety and public contempt for his own spouse reveal how theocracy corrodes intimacy and turns faith into spectacle. Yet both hosts insist the antidote isn’t rage — it’s radical empathy: refusing to mirror the cruelty that shaped them. Love, they remind us, is the only power that can unbind a movement built on control.
Tune in to hear about the pulse of Christian Nationalism from two people who have left that world.
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