From Amanpour & Co. to the PBS NewsHour, public television is all over the threat of “Christian Nationalism” as the 2024 presidential campaign gathers steam. Thursday evening’s edition featured perhaps the most conservative-hostile reporter on News Hour‘s staff, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, to offer its trademark taxpayer-funded liberal alarmism regarding devout Trump supporters.
Anchor William Brangham set things up: “The phrase ‘white Christian nationalism’ has been in the headlines quite a bit recently, but what does it really mean?”
Barron-Lopez’s introduction to her featured expert Brad Onishi left nothing mysterious about his ideological bent.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Brad Onishi is a former evangelical minister who once identified as a Christian nationalist himself. He left the church in 2005 and began studying religion from…
