Apocalyptic visions are no longer confined to conferences of far-right organizations, End Times novels, small fringe obscure churches, and on movie theater and television screens. These days they are finding a home embedded in the War Room at Donald Trump’s White House.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 “calls for establishing a government that would be imbued with ‘biblical principles’ and run by a president who holds sweeping executive powers,” the Charles F. Kettering Foundation’s Maura Casey pointed out in an August 19, 2024 piece, headlined “Project 2025: The Blueprint for Christian Nationalist Regime Change.”
Casey added: “Christian nationalism believes that the Christian Bible, as God’s infallible law, should be the basis of government and have primacy over public and private institutions. Its patriarchal view does not recognize gender equality or gay rights and sanctions discrimination based on religious beliefs.
“Christian nationalist ideas are woven through the plans of Project 2025 and the pages of Mandate for Leadership. Its thousands of recommendations include specific executive orders to be repealed or implemented. Laws, regulations, departments, and whole agencies would be abolished. It portrays anyone who opposes its sweeping ambitions as being enemies of our republic.”
The current administration is operationalizing Project 2025’s Christian nationalist agenda—not just planning it. Through executive orders, targeted staffing, institutional purges of diversity and transgender inclusion, and the formal elevation of faith into governance, policy is explicitly being shaped “along far-right theological lines.”
A prime example is Mike Huckabee, tapped by Trump to be the U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Critics have labeled Huckabee’s rhetoric as extreme due to his references to apocalyptic prophecy.
Prominent figures in the White House Faith Office, such as Paula White, also frame Trump’s presidency in divine terms—calling it “God-ordained” and tying it to a biblical mission of moral revival.
Russell Vought, Project 2025 architect and OMB Director, comes from Wheaton College and openly supports Christian nationalist beliefs. While not explicitly apocalyptic, he asserts that America’s laws should flow from “God” and maintains that the U.S. is under divine mandate—a perspective common in End Times theology.
While not every Trump appointee is an End‑Times literalist, those with close evangelical ties and roots, frame their public roles through an apocalyptic lens. This worldview doesn’t just inform their religious beliefs; it shapes policy urgency, moral absolutism, and a sense of divine sanction behind governance—hallmarks of the Christian nationalist agenda embedded in Project 2025.
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This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Bill Berkowitz.