Remigration, Recolonization, Rechristianization, Restoration: How Some of America's Most Extreme Christian Nationalists

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See the New (Old) World Order

Saw this because Greg Sargent posted about it this morning.

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-recolonization-rechristianization-restoration-how-some-of-americas-most-extreme-christian-nationalists-see-the-new-old-world-order/

Remigration, Recolonization, Rechristianization, Restoration: How Some of America’s Most Extreme Christian Nationalists See the New (Old) World Order
On the right's masculine, white nationalist, and theocratic framework.

Alan Elrod
11 Jan 2026

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But I want to focus on the responses of some of the most extremist Christian nationalists in particular, figures like C. Jay Engel, Joel Webbon, Matt Walsh, and William Wolfe. For these individuals, the Venezuela strikes augured not only a return to an international order defined by the naked realism of power politics but a renewed opportunity to build a system defined by national categories and their place in a global hierarchy of nations. At the top of this system is a new kind of America, muscular, exploitative, and fundamentally Christian. This can perhaps be best captured by C. Jay Engel’s three-word post on X from the weekend: “Remigration. Recolonization. Rechristianization.” Below, I want to use these three terms to walk through a brief, summary explanation of this worldview.

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But turning Venezuela into a deportation dumping ground is not the limit of their aspirations. A number of extremist Christian nationalists see a future where America embraces its white Christian heritage at home and imposes its will on the world abroad. The phrase that best captures Engel’s politics is one he and his allies often repeat: repeal the 20th century.

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Far from being true isolationists, the appetite for global power is only growing on the Christian far right. Matt Walsh stated this week that he believes Western Hemisphere countries ought to be reduced to “subordinate vassals of the United States.” In another post, Walsh declared that international law is “fake and gay” and that “the only international law is that big and powerful countries get to do what they want.”

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Webbon has recently launched a new series on his New Christian Right YouTube channel (branded as “NXR Studios”) featuring weekly episodes with Nick Fuentes. The project that will amount to ten hours of conversation with the ascendant Neo-Nazi and self-styled Groyper. In the first release, Webbon and Fuentes discuss their shared belief that only Christians should be allowed to occupy positions in America’s government, with Fuentes adding, “If God has a law, I think our country should follow that…I think that’s consistent with what our civilization is.”

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These self-styled "Christians" - who apparently never understood anything in the New Testament - aren't fundamentalist Christians so much as they are fundamentally amoral, power-mad, and dangerous to both the US and other countries.

People like this have, throughout history, betrayed and undermined any religion that started out idealistic and focused on love and enlightenment. They're the opposite of liberal Christianity (which does exist - look at John Pavlovitz and John Fugelsang, at all the churches backing the civil rights movement).

As the article concludes, this right wing horror is "a synthetic blend of new age fascism and manosphere toxicity masquerading as a return to ancient wisdom."

MAGA doesn't just want "remigration." It also wants "recolonization" and "rechristianization." Clarifying @aselrod.bsky.social piece on MAGA's "theocratic" worldview blending "new age fascism and manosphere toxicity masquerading as a return to ancient wisdom."
www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-...

— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2026-01-12T12:49:27.108Z