'Christian nationalist' right-wingers openly embrace 'warped version of history': Op-ed

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She went on to say that the Republican Party needs "to be the party of nationalism. And I’m a Christian. I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.”

"To understand why a more open embrace of Christian nationalism on the right today is so insidious, we have to understand what Christian nationalism is," The Bulwark's Annika Brockschmidt and Thomas Lecaque write.

"It arises from a warped version of American history, one that holds that the United States was supposed to be an explicitly Christian country, founded by and for Christian people — often understood explicitly to mean white Christian people. This bad history has been disproved time and time again, but it is central to the self-appointed legitimacy of Christian nationalists."