If Republicans are serious about seeing this project through to the end, they’ll need to prepare voters to withstand a full-court press of emotional manipulation and moral outrage. Christian conservatives especially should be ready to have all the usual Bible verses hurled in their faces: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me,” “love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt,” “[t]he foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born,” and so on—mostly from the mouths of non-believers.
Trump’s 2024 victory relied in part on maintaining his decisive margins among white evangelicals while flipping the Catholic vote red. These voters in particular must resist attempts to co-opt their faith in service of progressive globalism. And for the sake of their own souls, they’ll need to do so without embracing racial or ethnic hatred.
To that end, it seems useful to return to New Testament passages on civil government.
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