PRAGMATIC ISSUES

Let’s dispense with the cowardly qualifiers.

Not that I blame him, I actually stand up for JD Vance who told a white Christian nationalist who insulted JD’s wife to “Eat Shit.” I don’t dislike that statement at all.

But then again I stand for all women and…any man that defends them. Then again this Christian Evangilism is also pretty made up if you can trace your heritage, we came here to escape religoius opression just to be opressed by another?

White nationalism?

Please.

When a white nationalist targets a politician’s wife with racist rhetoric, that is not commentary. It is not critique. It is not “provocation.” It is racism, and the only real story is how quickly it is excused by people who never stop preaching morality to everyone else.

You do not have to like JD Vance. You do not have to defend Donald Trump. You do not even have to pretend these men deserve political respect. None of that matters. What matters is that racialized attacks on women connected to political power are being normalized, shrugged off, or openly defended — and the loudest silence is coming from the very people who claim to be the guardians of decency.

We’ve seen this pattern for years. Trump’s wife was ridiculed for her accent, her language, her background. It was racist then. It didn’t magically become acceptable because the target changed. The only thing that changed was who felt emboldened to look away.

And that brings us directly to Trump’s Christian base.

This is a movement that demands reverence. It insists on being treated as morally authoritative. It lectures the country about family values, virtue, and sin while aligning itself again and again with cruelty, dishonesty, and racial resentment as long as those traits serve political power.

Christian nationalism has become a laundering operation. Racism goes in. Scripture comes out. Misogyny is wrapped in “tradition.” Xenophobia is rebadged as “culture.” And anyone who objects is told they are attacking faith itself. They are not. They are attacking the fraud.

Because nothing in Christian teaching requires this. Nothing in the Gospels excuses it. This behavior is not faith-driven, it is power-driven.

Religion is simply the costume.

The most damning part is not the racism itself. America has never struggled to produce bigots. The damning part is the selective morality. The endless sermons about dignity that evaporate the moment cruelty is politically useful. The outrage that only activates when the target is approved. The values that somehow never apply inward.

Social media, of course, makes it easier. Performative silence is safer than accountability. Outrage is rationed. Hypocrisy is optimized. And so a movement that claims persecution status continues to dominate political power while pretending it is the victim.

Trump’s Christian base doesn’t have a credibility problem, it has a truth problem.

You cannot claim Christ while excusing racism.

You cannot preach love while defending cruelty.

You cannot demand moral authority while consistently siding with the ugliest impulses in American politics.

At some point, the performance collapses.

What’s left is not faith under attack, but faith exposed, hollowed out, weaponized, and used to sanctify behavior that would shame it if honesty still mattered.