I’m not defending the left, and to be clear, I’m concerned when any political alignment mistakes its platform for the gospel itself. I’m recognizing a 90-year pipeline — starting with the Pioneer Fund in the 1930s — that pushed scientific racism into the New Right and eventually into parts of white evangelical political messaging. What I’m seeing today isn’t random; it’s the result of that long process finally surfacing.

And for what it’s worth, the borders of the Kingdom of God don’t look anything like the borders of earthly nations. The Kingdom welcomes the helpless, the homeless, the immigrant, the poor, the downtrodden, the sinner, and people of every nation. That’s its border policy.