If This Is ‘Christian Nationalism,’ Sign Me Up!

President and Founding Father John Adams once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” J. Helgason/Shutterstock

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The other day, Politico writer Heidi Przybyla appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” to talk about the hysteria de jour, “Christian nationalism.” Donald Trump, she explained, has surrounded himself with an “extremist element of conservative Christians,” who were misrepresenting “so-called natural law” in their attempt to roll back abortion “rights” and other leftist policy preferences. What makes “Christian nationalists” different, she went on, was that they believe “our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority.”