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Praise for Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalismand What Comes Next

In this compelling and scholarly mix of memoir and cultural and political history, Onishi brings to bear his experience as a former Christian nationalist movement insider to expose the radicalism behind the January 6th insurrection. Gripping and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the threat that this movement poses to American democracy.

Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism


In Preparing for War, Bradley Onishi traces the history of White Christian nationalism from the John Birch Society to the Big Lie and the January 6 terrorist assault on the US Capitola narrative enlivened by the authors own intersections with the movement. This is an excellent and important book, both chilling and prophetic.

Randall Balmer, historian and author of Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right


Hinging on the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, Preparing for War presents the New Religious Right in light of their aggressive political ambitions. Bradley Onishi is ringing the alarm bells. He believes we are not at the end but rather the beginning of a religiously sanctioned extremism that threatens our American democratic future. Following the best scholarship on the nature of Christian nationalism and the further developments of the Religious Right, Onishi roots his story of historical changes in his life experiences in Southern California. The challenge is for all of us to examine how these momentous shifts have affected our own lives, and then seek ways to counteract the destructive paths being forged in our communities and our nation. This is a book to read with care.

Dr. Gerardo Mart, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at Davidson College and author of American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency


Bradley Onishi takes us on a sweeping yet personal journey through modern American religious and political history to understand the violent, extremist strains of White Christian America that led to the January 6 insurrection. With insight from countless interviews, deep scholarship, and his own escape from White Christian nationalism, Onishis Preparing for War is a clear account of what happened and a clarion warning about what is coming. Compelling and timely.

Andrew Seidel, attorney and author of The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American


This book is for anyone who wants to understand the goals and motives of White Christian nationalists. In Preparing for War, Onishi shows us how myth and history intertwine, from the personal to the national leveland why we must respond to this dire threat head-on.

Blake Chastain, host of the #Exvangelical podcast and founder of the Irreverent Media Group


Preparing for War is Bradley Onishis exposition of White Christian nationalism from its roots in the antebellum South, to the family values discourses that took control of the Republican Party in the 1980s, all the way to the reactionary movement that still puts Donald Trump at the helm of a culture war. That movement wants to turn back time to a point when everyone other than White, Christian men knew their place, and White Christian men had a social order to keep everyone else in their places through violent displays of both public and private force. At this moment, when those reactionary forces threaten to regain control of the American state and impose their theocratic vision on the rest of us, Onishis thorough and meticulous history is crucial. If youve ever found yourself confused and questioning how a nation supposedly founded for religious freedom could evolve to become a Christian nation bordering on theocracy, Preparing for War is necessary reading.

Tori Williams Douglass, writer, speaker, educator, and creator of White Homework


PREPARING FOR WAR

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THE EXTREMIST HISTORY OF WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISMAND WHAT COMES NEXT


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PREPARING FOR WAR

The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalismand What Comes Next


Copyright 2023 Bradley Onishi. Published by Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Email copyright@1517.media or write to Permissions, Broadleaf Books, PO Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1209.


All Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


Cover design: Faceout Studio


Print ISBN: 978-1-5064-8216-3

eBook ISBN: 978-1-5064-8217-0

To Kendra and Kaia,

the strangers who are my home

CONTENTS

PROLOGUEBefore and After


EPILOGUEThose with Eyes to See


PROCESSING THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION is akin to coming to terms with a national home invasion. That violent mobs breach of a secure and sacred space on January 6, 2021, resulted in nothing less than a collective trauma. Decades of threats, calls for civil war, and White grievance politics burst forth into a vulgar display of vengeance. It was a day that divides time into Before and After. It was dismantling.

But as time has passed, it has become clear that January 6 was not an aberration or even some historically bewildering event. It was the logical outcome not only of the Trump presidency and election defeat but also of the long history of White Christian nationalist rhetoric, organizing, and influence across the United States. This book is partly a religious history of the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But it is mainly a history of the events, movements, religious leaders, and religious communities that made that event possible.

It is also a history of my own involvement in those communities and movements. As a former White Christian nationalist who is now a scholar of religion, I have both an insiders view and a scholarly perspective on the long road to J6. This book recounts the historical narrative by using my own history with the movement as a prism for understanding its principles, doctrines, emotions, and extremisms. I use my personal experience and training as a scholar to analyze the past and present and to forecast what comes next for MAGA Nation and the White Christian nationalists at its core.

As I processed the events from that horrific day, I began to ask the three questions that would become the foundations for this book. How did the rise of the New Religious Right between 1960 and 2015 give birth to violent White Christian nationalism during the Trump presidency and beyond? What aspects of the White Christian nationalist worldviewthe worldview I once heldpropelled some of the most conservative religious communities in the country to ignite a cold civil war? And how can understanding the history of White Christian nationalism help us anticipate how it will take shape in and influence the public square in years to come?

In chapters 15, we will answer the first question. Chapter 1 is a primer on White Christian nationalismand my participation in itand its development over the last half century. In chapters 2 and 3, I trace the history of extreme right-wing politics and White Christian nationalism in Southern California and the American South in the 1960s and 1970s. These chapters show how the development of the New Religious Right set the stage for the White Christian nationalist takeover of the Republican Party. In chapters 4 and 5, I examine the results of this takeover in the ouster of Jimmy Carter at the hand of his fellow White Christians and the White Christian nationalist support for Ronald Reagan.

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