National Guard Shooting Reveals the Right's Dangerous Western Supremacy

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Brad takes a hard look at the American right’s response to the recent shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC, and shows how the rhetoric around the tragedy signals a shift from overt Christian nationalism to something even broader and more dangerous: Western supremacy. He traces how this worldview draws from older ideas about civilizational conflict and cultural hierarchy and how it is now being revived by politicians, pundits, and tech billionaires who frame immigration and diversity as threats to the survival of the West. Using statements from Donald Trump, Fox News, Elon Musk, and leaders of conservative think tanks, Brad breaks down how the language has moved from “protecting Christian America” to “defending Western civilization” and how that shift expands the target while narrowing the circle of belonging. He explains why Western supremacy is an exclusionary, anti democratic ideology and how it lays the groundwork for policies that declare entire groups incompatible with society. It is a sobering, sharp analysis of a growing political narrative that insists not everyone deserves a place at the table. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 1000+ episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Subscribe to American Exceptionalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi
0:10.0	The American right has reacted to the shooting of two National Guardsmen
0:18.0	in a way that reveals the startling escalation of their prejudice.
0:22.6	This is way beyond Christian nationalism. This is Western supremacy.
0:27.6	The Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. I'm Brad Anishi, founder of AccessMood
0:46.7	Media, scholar of religion, author of preparing for war. Today I want to talk about the
0:52.4	response to the killing of a National Guardsperson last week in the shooting of one other.
0:57.7	The response to this incident, which is tragic and harrowing and horrific, reveal something that I've been talking about on this pod for a long time.
1:08.1	We are long past a stage, I think, of what we might call Christian nationalism
1:13.4	in this country. If Christian nationalism is the idea of wanting to have a Christian nation,
1:18.7	because the country has a Christian history, has been influenced by Christian people, and some
1:24.1	minds has been built for and by Christians.
1:30.8	Well, that's not an ideology I think is democratic.
1:32.3	It's one I think is harmful.
1:37.1	It's something I've told thousands of audiences and everyone listening to this pod hundreds of times is harmful.
1:40.3	It leads to xenophobia.
1:41.7	It often leads to racism.
1:43.4	It often leads to patriarchy and misogyny and so much more.
1:47.6	But what I've been trying to show all of you over the last month is something that I think is beyond that now in ways that are quite startling.
1:57.2	And we see that in the response to what happened in D.C. last week.
2:02.1	Last week, Sarah Bextram, a 20-year-old who joined the National Guard two years ago after graduating
2:07.3	from high school in West Virginia, died on Thanksgiving Day. Her colleague and friend, Staff Sergeant
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