Sean Feucht & Christian Nationalism: MAGA Star Wants God Writing Laws

Musi­cian-activist Sean Feucht has reached unprece­dent­ed lev­els of influ­ence in the US MAGA move­ment as he advo­cates for God to “write the laws of the land” while main­tain­ing close ties to the Trump admin­is­tra­tion. On 1 July 2025, The Atlantic report­ed that Feucht has become a key fig­ure in bring­ing Chris­t­ian nation­al­ist ide­ol­o­gy to main­stream Repub­li­can pol­i­tics through his nation­wide ral­lies and high-lev­el polit­i­cal connections.

The arti­cle begins:

After wild­fires erupt­ed in Los Ange­les Coun­ty ear­li­er this year, a team from the Depart­ment of Hous­ing and Urban Devel­op­ment descend­ed on the wreck­age. Led by HUD Sec­re­tary Scott Turn­er, the entourage walked through the rub­ble in Altade­na, reas­sur­ing vic­tims that the Trump admin­is­tra­tion had their back. At Turn­er’s request, a Chris­t­ian-nation­al­ist musi­cian named Sean Feucht tagged along. “I can’t overem­pha­size how amaz­ing this oppor­tu­ni­ty is,” Feucht had post­ed on Insta­gram the day before. “I’m bring­ing my gui­tar. We’re going to wor­ship. We’re going to pray.” Feucht has recent­ly become a MAGA super­star. He tours the coun­try hold­ing ral­lies that blend upbeat Chris­t­ian-rock songs with ser­mons that tie in his right-wing polit­i­cal views. Between prais­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump as God’s cho­sen one and sug­gest­ing that abor­tion sup­port­ers are “demons,” Feucht has repeat­ed­ly advo­cat­ed for the fusion of Church and state.

           Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/sean-feucht-christian-nationalism/683394/

Key Points

• Feucht explic­it­ly advo­cates for Chris­t­ian con­trol of gov­ern­ment, stat­ing, “We want God writ­ing the laws of the land” at state capi­tol rallies.
• He pro­motes the “sev­en-moun­tain man­date,” seek­ing Chris­t­ian dom­i­nance over fam­i­ly, reli­gion, edu­ca­tion, media, arts, busi­ness, and gov­ern­ment spheres.
• The musi­cian has per­formed at the White House and main­tains close rela­tion­ships with top Trump admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials, includ­ing Pete Hegseth.
• Six for­mer staffers accused Feucht of finan­cial malfea­sance, includ­ing donor fraud and embez­zling non­prof­it funds for per­son­al use.

Christian Nationalism Drives Global National Conservative Alliance Expansion

Chris­t­ian nation­al­ism is rapid­ly con­sol­i­dat­ing as a dri­ving force behind the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA), with its ide­o­log­i­cal foot­print expand­ing through both polit­i­cal mobi­liza­tion and inter­na­tion­al net­work­ing. The movement’s advo­cates increas­ing­ly coor­di­nate across con­ti­nents to pro­mote anti-glob­al­ist agen­das, lever­ag­ing sub­stan­tial finan­cial resources to influ­ence pol­i­cy debates and for­ti­fy alliances between Amer­i­can, Euro­pean, and even Russ­ian right-wing actors. Cen­tral to this effort is the GNCA’s focus on nation­al sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and oppo­si­tion to lib­er­al inter­na­tion­al­ism, with Chris­t­ian nation­al­ist rhetoric fram­ing con­tem­po­rary polit­i­cal strug­gles as a bat­tle between tra­di­tion­al reli­gious val­ues and sec­u­lar progressivism—an approach that res­onates strong­ly among far-right fac­tions in the US and Europe.

Chris­t­ian nationalism’s rad­i­cal­iza­tion is stark­ly exem­pli­fied by the Min­neso­ta polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tion, where reli­gious extrem­ism fused with New Apos­tolic Ref­or­ma­tion the­ol­o­gy and net­works like Christ for the Nations Insti­tute fueled tar­get­ed vio­lence against law­mak­ers advo­cat­ing pro­gres­sive poli­cies. The movement’s ide­o­log­i­cal reach is fur­ther illus­trat­ed by its abil­i­ty to bridge unlike­ly alliances, includ­ing part­ner­ships with fig­ures out­side tra­di­tion­al reli­gious cir­cles, while its oper­a­tional strat­e­gy empha­sizes the use of state pow­er to enact con­ser­v­a­tive social poli­cies and resist pro­gres­sive reforms. This con­ver­gence is ampli­fied by shared oppo­si­tion to so-called “woke” pol­i­tics, which serves as a uni­fy­ing cause for the GNCA and facil­i­tates col­lab­o­ra­tion with author­i­tar­i­an regimes inter­est­ed in under­min­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic institutions.

Schol­ar­ly analy­sis high­lights that Chris­t­ian nationalism’s appeal is root­ed in a blend of iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics, per­ceived vic­tim­hood, and con­spir­a­to­r­i­al think­ing, mak­ing it a potent vehi­cle for mobi­liz­ing sup­port among those who feel cul­tur­al­ly or polit­i­cal­ly marginalized.

1. What Is Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism, Exactly?

2. Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism and Polit­i­cal Vio­lence: Vic­tim­hood, Racial Iden­ti­ty, Con­spir­a­cy, and Sup­port for the Capi­tol Attacks

3. Chris­t­ian nation­al­ism | EBSCO Research Starters

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