Subject: Re: Genesis of Christian Nationalism
I gotta think xian nationalism will fail, ultimately. Those professing religion, and/or xianity, in the US is significantly down over the last 30 years or so. The extremists (i.e. xian nationalists) would be a small minority, and their trying to trample of peoples' rights should quickly make them unelectable except on small pockets of nutjobs (mostly, though not exclusively, in the deep South).

I wonder if this movement is a response to the diminishing prominence of religion from most peoples' lives. When I was a teen, I think the rate of non-belief was around 6%. Today it's around 30%, last I read. I think it may be even higher if you include the folks that have a vague belief in a deity, but not specific enough to claim a given religious identity (e.g. "christian"). They see their beliefs fading in society at large, and are reacting to it by trying to impose their standards via the political process.