A core element of Christian nationalism is the myth that America was founded as a deeply Christian nation, and yeah, we may have dabbled in a little ethnic cleansing, some random occasional slavery, and some barely there segregation, but that doesn’t matter in our golden imagined past. I hope I’m not spoiling anything here, but most Christian racists don’t think their views are problematic. They’ll tell you that white Christians built the US, all on their own, and anyone who uses woke race-baiting terms like “slavery” or “genocide” or “systemic” probably hates white people, and that’s why we
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