I agree with Christian Nationalists that the founding vision of America & Americanism ("Classical Liberalism") was abandoned long ago.

The country is becoming a leftist hellscape.

But what's the argument for pursuing CN *rather than* returning to CL / Americanism? I've seen a lot of supposedly practical arguments, but they all fail under closer scrutiny.

For instance, "CL failed, so why go back to it?"

But did it?

Just because it came before what we have now, doesn't mean it's the cause.

I'd argue we abandoned CL long ago.

This entire thread from Jeff is helpful in understanding much of the motivating thought behind the recent surge in Christian Nationalism.

But it has a number of fundamental flaws that I keep seeing over and over again in the CN rhetoric. 🧵

https://twitter.com/merelyjwright/status/1700508829669118229

I picked this tweet about Renn’s “Negative World” to start my thread because it sharply highlights the main flaw.

Renn’s three worlds (Positive, Neutral, and Negative) are meant to represent the different ways that the world has viewed & responded to Christianity in diff eras.

Contrary to much of "conservative" Christian commentary today,

Individual rights are part of God's moral law.

He has made each man sole steward of his own life & posessions—and HE will judge each man according to what he has done. Too many conservatives today want to take it upon themselves—through the state—to replace God as judge in all of man's life.

God has delegated to the state to judge in matters of rights violations, but apart from such violations against other men, the state has no jurisdiction.

"All your life, you have heard yourself denounced, not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues. You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements... You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride. You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgment and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind...

This is a very important thread confirming a thesis I've suspected for a while:

Many fellow anti-CRT guys, whom I had previously thought were brothers & potential allies in the battle for truth & righteousness, are actually just scared reactionaries looking for a new home... 🧵

https://twitter.com/ref_andrew/status/1597583522554056705

I understand the feeling of alienation and despair in the wake of the great woke apostasy & the bewildering loneliness of realizing that once trusted leaders have betrayed you.

I wasted years & thousands of $'s in prepping for a career that was made impossible by that apostasy.

One defining feature of many Christian men today is the effeminate practice of covert and evasive speech.

Even worse is the fact that this manner of speaking is widely seen as the moral, "charitable," and polite manner of speech, to be praised, encouraged, & emulated.
(Thread) The essence of this effeminate style in the evangelical man is the strategic avoidance of taking personal responsibility for (or "owning") what he has to say.

This goal (the evasion of responsibility) is achieved through various tactics calculated against clarity & precision...

"Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it? ..." "...Does virtue consist of serving vice? Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?

The answer you evade, the monstrous answer is: No, the takers are not evil, provided they did not earn the value you gave them...."