Reversing the "weaponization of Christianity": How "religous freedom" can be used to fight Trumpism

Donald Trump’s role as the country’s first white president is obvious and omnipresent. At their core, Trump’s “Christian” values are defined by his transactional relationship with the Christian right, and specifically White Christian nationalists, a group he has promised to elevate to supreme power in the country if they gave him what he wants: their votes, money and control over many tens of millions of people. Raushenbush reflects on his fears and finding hope in this time of uncertainty with Trump’s imminent return to power and what they will mean for marginalized communities and others deemed to be “the enemy within.” He explains how the Age of Trump and the rise of authoritarian populism and MAGA are also a moral crisis made possible by how the right-wing spent decades capturing and distorting “morality, “God” and “Christianity” to advance its antidemocratic agenda and the culture of cruelty. Raushenbush offers a model of how Christians, members of other faith communities, and people of conscience more broadly, can be partners in defending American democracy and civil society from some of the worst assaults on civil rights, freedom and human dignity that Trump’s administration and his allied forces have promised and threatened on “day one” and beyond. White Christianity, especially white right-wing Christian fundamentalism, is such a deep and important current within the MAGA movement and today's "conservatives" that I think even many people who are working in mainstream politics don't really understand what's happening.