Trumpism operates as an epistemology, not a politics, replacing evidence with loyalty and turning lies into identity.
Christian nationalism collapses moral authority by baptizing power, cruelty, and propaganda as “faith.”
Manufactured culture wars are supposed to redirect our rage away from healthcare, guns, and a weak economy.
Public grief and private tragedy are increasingly weaponized as content, leverage, and tribal enforcement.
Tim and April move past outrage to interrogate the deeper mechanics at work, tracing how Trump’s casual relationship with truth becomes a moral framework for his followers rather than a liability. They connect Christian nationalist support to a worldview where Trump’s words function as gospel, making contradiction irrelevant and accountability impossible. Their discussion of Caroline Levitt and Erica Kirk exposes how piety, aesthetic religiosity, and victimhood narratives are used to shield power from even the mildest moral scrutiny. When Trump responds to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife by centering himself, Tim and April treat it not as a one-off cruelty but as a symptom of a political culture that normalizes dehumanization from the top down. When faith, media, and politics merge around loyalty instead of truth, violence becomes easier to excuse and harder to stop.
Tim Whitaker is the founder of The New Evangelicals, and April Ajoy is the author of Star Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism And Finding True Faith.
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