The Christian Nationalists Have a Plan
J oel Webbon has a six-year plan to usher in the first Christian-nationalist president, and he’s sticking to it.
Key points
- Fishback also sent me a memo that outlined a plan to have his vice-presidential candidate serve as acting president until he turns 35, in 2030, should he win.
- That defeat was necessary to clear the way for the rest of his plan, which he is expected to promote at a three-day conference outside Dallas this week.
- The goal is to get Fishback on the primary debate stage and “prime the pump” for 2032 by forcing Christian-nationalist politics into the mainstream.
Conveniently enough, the first phase of Webbon’s plan required that Republicans lose the midterms, getting rejected by voters after starting a wildly unpopular war that exacerbated the cost-of-living crisis.
With Phase 1 of his plan—Republicans losing the midterms—successfully completed, Webbon is proceeding to Phase 2: Recruiting James Fishback to run in the 2028 Republican presidential primary.
Additional details
- But no one offered a game plan as specific as Webbon’s.
- (Fuentes urged his followers to support Democrats in the midterms.) After the election, The Daily Wire ’s Matt Walsh called Trump “yesterday’s news” and said that “we have to move on” and find a new Republican leader.
- (During one argument in April, Fishback told a Black man, “You should be lynched.”) [ Read: An unsettling glimpse into the GOP’s future ] Fishback would be too young to meet the minimum presidential age of 35, but that does not matter to Webbon, because victory is not the point.
- Although some on the far right were shaken by last week’s rout of Republicans at the polls, seeing it as a setback for their own agenda, Webbon told me last week that he sees it as validation.
- Jones, the white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes, the conservative streamer Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson have already broken with the president over his decision to go to war in Iran.
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