Chuck Darwin<p>John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hagee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hagee</span></a> is the founder and leader of <br>🔸Christians United for Israel, 🔸<br>which boasts 10 million members<br>-- more than the total population of American Jews. <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/CUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CUI</span></a> was founded in 2006 after the publication of Hagee’s book “Jerusalem Countdown,” <br>which asserts that a U.S.-Israel war against Iran is both biblically prophesied and necessary to bring about the battle of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Armageddon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Armageddon</span></a> and the Second Coming. <br>Two years later, John McCain rejected Hagee’s endorsement in the 2008 presidential campaign, after a sermon of Hagee’s surfaced describing Hitler as fulfilling God's will by hastening the return of Jews to Israel. <br>But Hagee is just one figure in the still-poorly-understood <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dominionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dominionist</span></a> movement that’s supporting Trump and MAGA Republicans in general. <br>Their goal is to remake America into a right-wing Christian <a href="https://c.im/tags/theocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theocracy</span></a>. </p><p>Canadian scholar André Gagné’s recent book “American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times” does much to explain the <a href="https://c.im/tags/evangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelical</span></a> wing of that movement, known as the <br>🔸New Apostolic Reformation🔸, drawing on its own own words. <br>Three high-profile NAR leaders<br> — Lance <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallnau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wallnau</span></a>, Paula <a href="https://c.im/tags/White" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>White</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Cain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cain</span></a> and Dutch <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sheets</span></a> <br>— were intimately involved in bringing Trump to power, <br>supporting him and then<br> fighting to keep him in power after the 2020 election. <br>They're just the tip of the iceberg. <br>Since 2020, Gen. Michael <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flynn</span></a>, Trump’s short-lived national security adviser, has been a co-leader of the <br>“ReAwaken America Tour,” <br>which is connected to multiple NAR figures, as Jennifer Cohn reported in 2022. <br>Just this month, Salon contributor Frederick Clarkson of Political Research Associates reported on Wallnau’s latest political venture, dubbed the <br>“Courage Tour,” which targets 19 counties that “are going to determine the future of America.”<br><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/05/26/cracking-the-christian-nationalist-code-a-glossary-for-the-confused/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2024/05/26/cracking-</span><span class="invisible">the-christian-nationalist-code-a-glossary-for-the-confused/</span></a></p>