2025 is the year of rule by presidential fiat. Donald Trump has issued 225 executive orders during the first year of his second term in office, five more than he signed over the course of his entire four-year first term. While many of them, such as one intended to end “gender ideology extremism,” were subtly grounded in the context of America as a right-wing Christian nation, at least three of them made no bones about their intention.
The first came on Feb. 6 and established a task force to “eradicate Christian bias” from government. Another issued the following day created the White House Faith Office to enforce religious liberty protections and support faith-based initiatives. Three months later, Trump announced the formation of the Religious Liberty Commission to, in his words, “bring back religion in our country…quickly and strongly.”
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