"This Sunday, the Trump administration will kick off its grift-laden commemoration of the nation's 250th anniversary with a nine-hour prayer jubilee on the National Mall, meant to signal "a moment of renewal" for the Christian nationalist project at the heart of the MAGA spiritual agenda."
"The central theme uniting Trump's far-flung attacks on the Biden White House, his fury at the interlocking scourges of wokeness, trans tolerance, and CRT indoctrination, his hate-fueled mass deportation rhetoric, and his tariff-and-tax-cuts vision of a new economic golden age was that this iteration of MAGA was a revival movement in political guise."
"Seizing on the militant rhetoric of spiritual warfare crafted by self-styled movement prophets aligned with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) like Lance Wallnau, an oil-industry PR flack turned preacher, Trump campaign strategists positioned the president as a vessel for the country's divine deliverance."
"Armed with this bellicose version of the gospel, the NAR preaches a full-fledged evangelical siege of what Wallnau and others call the "seven mountains" of cultural power: politics, education, the media, the fa"
A nine-hour prayer jubilee on the National Mall will begin the administration’s commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, presenting it as a “moment of renewal.” The event is positioned to advance a Christian nationalist project aligned with MAGA’s spiritual agenda. The messaging is linked to a broader political strategy that portrays the movement as a revival and deliverance mission. Attacks on political opponents are framed through spiritual warfare language, casting rivals as demons or satanic forces. The approach draws on New Apostolic Reformation ideas and “seven mountains” cultural power concepts, targeting politics, education, media, and other institutions to secure influence.
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