The Kingdom and the Power

Christian nationalism is on the ballot.

Monika Bauerlein

“AMERICA IS NOT just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.” Those were JD Vance’s words as he accepted the Republican nomination for vice president, and no matter the outcome in November, it’s worth paying closer attention to them than most in the media have. Because, as Kiera Butler skillfully unpacks on page 18, despite the bland, stump-speech-bot language, these words signal an idea profoundly at odds with what America has sought to be—an idea that many conservatives are now embracing as the nation’s future. It is the idea of nationalism, which at its core means that a country’s identity is rooted in a specific group of people. That is indeed how many countries around the…

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