It’s Only ‘Christian Nationalism’ When Conservatives Do It– thefederalist.com

The Democrats in this most recent election ran a campaign attacking an ascendent “Christian nationalism,” which they warned would soon turn America into a theocracy. “I define Christian nationalism as the worship of power — social power, economic power, political power — in the name of Christ,” declared Texas Democrat James Talarico, now senator-elect. “I think Christian nationalism, this idea that we’ve got to take America back for Jesus, is one of the most dangerous things to our democracy,” cautioned Arkansas Democrat Robb Ryerse, who unsuccessfully ran for a House seat this midterm election. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., asserted: “The hardcore Christian nationalists are trying to topple democracy. They want a full-blown theocracy.”

Yet, in fact, the Democrats ran a quite unapologetically religious platform that routinely sought to contextualize their politics as informed by Christianity, something that was not lost even on legacy liberal media. As much as the left seeks to portray the right as beholden to religious forces that imperil the so-called separation of church and state — an idea, by the way, that gained traction via rhetoric from such former conservative evangelicals as Russell Moore and David French — they are simultaneously quite cynically projecting their own version of Christian nationalism. It’s a double standard as hypocritical as it is ridiculous.