The Christian Nationalist Test

Follow me for a second.

America has always had extremists.

That’s not the interesting part.

The interesting part is what they reveal.

Joel Webbon openly calls for a Christian ruler who can govern with an iron fist and, in his words:

"Constitution be damned."

I don’t bring up Webbon because he’s powerful.

I bring him up because he offers an unusually honest window into where a segment of the Christian nationalist movement wants to take the country if it continues to gain influence.

Forget the religion for a moment.

Forget whether you're conservative or liberal.

Forget whether you agree with him.

Ask yourself:

What happens when people stop viewing the Constitution as a safeguard and start viewing it as an obstacle?

Because once constitutional limits become optional, everything else becomes negotiable.

Speech.

Religion.

Due process.

Voting rights.

Property rights.

The rights of political opponents.

All of it.

The Constitution is not there to protect people we like.

It is there to protect people we don't.

That is the whole point.

The founders had already seen what happens when men become convinced they are righteous enough to wield unlimited power.

So they built a system around a simple assumption:

No person can be trusted with that much power.

Not kings.

Not presidents.

Not judges.

Not pastors.

Not our side.

Not their side.

The moment someone says the Constitution should yield to a higher political mission, they have stopped arguing for freedom.

They are arguing for rule.

And history is full of people who believed they were saving the country when they made that trade.

History is also full of countries that regretted it.