Rep. Mike Belcher is one of the most interesting out there in the counter-revolution. We link to his Substack quite often and recommend his videos a lot.
Today he posted this little Tweet which twigged a memory of congressional hearings in February where this exact trope was used to try and undermine the testimony of Robert Spencer and others on the factual and historical dangers of Islam and its adherents to Western Civilization, and in particular, the United States.
Excerpt:
There are many people who want you to fear the idea that America’s founding metaphysics are Christian. They promote the dialectical political warfare operation known as “Christian Nationalism.”
The term “Christian Nationalism” is generally undefined and utilized as a “floating signifier.” This is a political warfare concept where a label with a nebulous definition is slandered and coded as evil—placed outside the Overton Window as taboo—in order to apply it to any variety of political opponents at opportune times to negate their political will. They have done the same thing with the word “racist,” where they changed the understood, reasonable definition of color-based hatreds into something only definable, and therefore only operational, by and for Leftist “experts.” The mechanism is identical: create a term sufficiently vague that it can be affixed to anyone who threatens the revolution, sufficiently terrifying that the accusation alone produces social death, and sufficiently undefined that no defense against it is possible because the goalposts are never fixed.
Well we certainly post about these efforts on a near constant basis. In fact the definition of dialectics, well a sort of narrow operational one anyway, is posted in the Reader’s Links every day for now.
But this caught our attention because of Congressional hearings by the Sharia Free America Caucus that took place in February, where the entire effort to explain Islam as a threat doctrine was undermined by a Democrat who attempted to use the Christian Nationalist trope as a deflection from the real dangers of Islam.
I have seen it used in Congressional hearings to negate testimony on the dangers of Islam in EXACTLY this way! pic.twitter.com/6asMa8wS5w
— VladT (@Vlad_Tepes_blog) May 12, 2026
She was well and properly refuted:
Here is a MUCH better example. A pure man of straw argument and creation of a “Christian Nationalist” threat. pic.twitter.com/fOWWQ9rgmo
— VladT (@Vlad_Tepes_blog) May 12, 2026
This is the first time in about a week that I have been able to get to the current version of your website. Today I was using Brave. In Chrome your old website would not even show up.
Your insightful discussions must be over target, attracting flak.
All I have to do to find numerous people who are proud to call themselves Christian Nationalists is go to a prayer meeting, or any function at any number of fundamentalist churches in my area.