In a wide-ranging interview, Wilson said he opened a D.C. “church service” because of the number of Christians who adhere to his church’s teachings within the Trump administration. One of the most prominent followers is Hegseth, who attends the newly opened D.C. congregation.
“If Kamala [Harris] had won the presidency, there would have been basically zero evangelicals in the White House administration,” Wilson said. “And although Donald Trump is not an evangelical by any stretch … his administration is full of them.”
That’s why Wilson sees an opportunity for his beliefs to be seriously considered at this moment, including the belief that eventually the U.S. should be a Christian theocracy, whereby Christian principles dictate state authority and religion and politics are tightly intertwined.
Under this framework, I’d rather live in authoritarian China than the authoritarian Christofascist idiocracy of the USA.
That is one of the potential benefits of the authoritarian state, though that benefit heavily relies on the state itself taking responsibility over its own failings instead of utilizing minority groups as a scape goat.
So it’s more of a roll of the die instead of something that can be purposely developed as a plan of action by reactionary forces within the majority.