Culture war policy is being driven by statistically tiny populations while material needs like healthcare, wages, housing, and debt relief are deliberately sidelined.
Christian nationalism relies on moral language to excuse cruelty, selectively applying biblical authority to protect power rather than people.
Calls for unity function as permission slips for extremism, creating space where contradictions are not resolved but normalized.
Tim and April strip away the abstraction and show how these contradictions are not accidental, but foundational to how the movement operates. Tim grounds the critique in policy reality, contrasting obsessive fixation on trans kids with the deliberate neglect of healthcare access, wages, housing, and student debt. April sharpens the moral frame, pointing out how appeals to faith and unity are used to launder cruelty and give cover to exclusionary politics. Together, they reveal how Christian language is weaponized to sanctify power while absolving leaders of responsibility for real-world harm. The conversation makes clear that this isn’t confusion within the movement—it’s coherence built on selective empathy. What looks like hypocrisy is actually the system working exactly as intended.
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Tim Whitaker is the founder of The New Evangelicals, and April Ajoy is the author of Star Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism And Finding True Faith.
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