Religious-sounding language will be everywhere in 2025
Briefly

Trump's choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Russell T. Vought, was a key architect of Project 2025. His presence doesn't just speak to the influence that Project 2025 boosters can expect to enjoy during Trump's second term. His appointment to the OMB also serves as a harbinger of the kind of religious rhetoric that is likely to suffuse the White House and the overall MAGA media landscape in 2025.
In private, Vought has stated the need to "rehabilitate Christian Nationalism." In public, he has claimed that American "rights and duties" come from God. The think tank he heads, called the Center for Renewing America, drafted memos in early 2024 prioritizing a Christian nationalist agenda.
Much of what Vought says, and what Project 2025 echoes, aligns with the rhetoric of the New Apostolic Revolution, a far-right religious movement that has ties to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and seeks to enshrine biblical principle in US law.
There will, for very good reason, be a great deal of news coverage dedicated to the religious rhetoric employed by Vought and other Project 2025 contributors in and around the Trump Administration - including the rhetorical and policy overlaps between groups like the NAR and high-profile politicians like Speaker Johnson.
Read at Nieman Lab
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