In Australia, like many throughout the world, we were shocked to witness the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The attempted assassination didn’t necessarily come as any surprise considering the radical left have been demonising Mr Trump for some time now. However, it is still shocking to see rhetoric turn into violent action. There remain many unanswered questions regarding the event and we will watch with interest to see if they are fully investigated.
In the meantime, what was also predictable was the response by the leftist media who claim that Christian nationalism will become a worsening problem between now and the US election. Soon after the attempt on Mr Trump’s life, USA Today ran with the headline: “Failed Trump assassination attempt may embolden supporters who seem him as chosen by God”. In the article itself, one paragraph read: “The messaging could embolden Christian nationalist discourse that the former president and his allies have used to portray Trump as a Messiah-like figure on the campaign trail.” Later in the same article, Dennis Jacobson, founding pastor of MICAH (Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope) said that privileging Christianity would “destroy our multicultural democracy and kill the dream of a beloved community for which so many people are striving.” He further said that, “If white Christian nationalism prevails, you may soon know what it’s like to live in an authoritarian society.”
For a number of years now, what we have seen throughout Western nations and their media conglomerates is the use of language to introduce a three-step program to demonise, mobilise and marginalise.
They demonise Christianity in order to mobilise opponents to it in the hopes of marginalising those who are the salt and light of the nations in which they live, therefore diminishing their impact throughout their communities. Although you may be tempted to believe this is a recent strategy, it is actually taken from the Communist playbook.
In 1943, Communist party headquarters sent a directive to their American followers which read this: “When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them after suitable buildups as fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic and use the prestige of anti-fascist and tolerance organisations to discredit them. In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell. The association will after enough repetition become fact in the public mind.”
You see, the salt and light of Christianity has stung the darkened eyes of the Communists, the Marxists, the atheists and the secular humanists and they are doing whatever they can to rinse it out – even using fabrication and violence to do it. One commentator claimed that Christian nationalism was the “gasping, dying breath of the older generation in America that is afraid that Christians are going to be replaced.” As GK Chesterton famously put it: “At least five times the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases, it was the dog that died”. Or, as he also stated, “Christianity has died many times and risen again: for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
The hope amongst politicians and the media is that by equating Christians with fanatics and conspiracy theorists, Christians will be sidelined from participating in the political process in their respective nations. So, by utilizing the term “Christian nationalism,” they want to imply that Christian political engagement is somehow nefarious, subversive, and violent.
A Polish author I came across had some wonderful insight, because he has lived under both communism and liberalism. Although they are vastly different in principle, they offer the same endgame – they wish to make secularism triumphant.
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