It is no secret the secular media strategy against so-called Christian nationalism

is to conjure up images of Nuremberg marches in the minds of otherwise susceptible American

Christians. Some on the left regularly refer to it as white Christian nationalism to reinforce this point.

In fact, it seems that elites of almost every political stripe on the right and left are convinced that something nefarious lurks in the fine print

waiting for the right moment to invade the Rhineland and institute concentration camps for

religious heretics. Most rank-and-file conservatives are used to this treatment, of course.

Being called Nazi for holding any belief to the right of Bernie Sanders is standard fair in today's

political discourse. The left has heavily beaten the

warning drums against Donald Trump's first presidential campaign when

white nationalists like Richard Spencer initially found inspiration for their own agenda.

Because Republican voters failed to see the threat so often described to

materialize, it is easy to disregard the warnings as another exercise in crying

wolf. Most of the time it most surely is.

However, this does not mean that far right beliefs are not gaining steam as elite's

rush to institutionalize far left sentiments. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction so the

proverb says. Not long after the Second World War Richard Weaver described

European fascism as the rebellion of youth, the repudiation of

bourgeois complacency, the attempt to renew the sense of holiness and heroism.

Though it was fueled by resentment and inverted the Christian ethic and civilization bereft of transcendence.

In other words, there were certain conditions present that left the human spirit unfulfilled,

a spirit once burning with the fires of the older religiousness.

If we are to accept Weaver's premise, it is no accident that

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