White Christian nationalism is a theory of order, and of hierarchy. It distinguishes insiders and outsiders, and when those two must occupy the same country, those on top and those on the bottom. “People like us”—white Christian citizens—are the true Americans. Everyone else is only here on their sufferance. In the blunt language of the Trump-friendly Claremont Institute: “most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term.” They are “zombies” and “rodents,” not “real men and women who love truth and beauty.”27
