Gillian Richards is a research associate for the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

 

Democrats are trying to make Halloween extra spooky this year by exhuming the boogieman of Christian nationalism. The news hook is the election of a conservative Christian as speaker of the House. Rep. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, won the election last week.

In the left-wing media’s lexicon, Christian nationalism doesn’t refer to the handful of people who would like to repeal the First Amendment. It refers to people—usually evangelical Christians like Johnson—who think bad secularist court decisions have drastically curtailed the Framers’ vision of the free exercise of religion over the last several decades.

But you wouldn’t know that from the hysterical leftist headlines. …

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