Christian nationalism is presented as the animating idea of America and Western civilization, claimed to be under attack by the left and undermined by libertarian reverence for Rand, Mill, and Friedman. An alternative nationalist framing emphasizes America as a blood-and-soil homeland of pioneers and warriors, valuing lived experience of conquest and continual self-improvement across generations. That framing asserts national character as distinct from constitutional principles and describes a populist uprising of people who feel estranged by deindustrialization, elite betrayal, and cultural displacement.
Last year Missouri senator Josh Hawley gave the keynote speech at the National Conservatism Conference, that great rhetorical playground for MAGA ideologues. His main theme was that Christian nationalism is the animating idea of America and, for that matter, of Western civilization. That intellectual and moral heritage, he argued heatedly, is under sustained attack by the left, which aims at "deliverance from tradition, from family, from biological sex - and of course, from God,"
It is not about Christianity or any other idea. It's about America as a blood-and-soil homeland for the pioneers and warriors whose ideals grew from their lived experience of conquest and constant self-improvement and their descendants. Schmitt said: If you imposed a carbon copy of the U.S. Constitution on Kazakhstan tomorrow, Kazakhstan wouldn't magically become America. Because Kazakhstan isn't filled with Americans. It's filled with Kazakhstanis!
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