Could Another Crack Be Forming?

One of the bases that Trump counts on is showing fractures and the question is, how do we break his other leg...

This morning I wrote about how Trump is fracturing his Second Amendment base, now I want to write about his other base, the religious right!

President Trump: “I think God is very proud of the job I’ve done.”

The Daily Citizen

by Paul Batura

January 21, 2026

At Tuesday’s White House briefing marking the one-year anniversary of the second Trump administration, a reporter asked President Trump the following question:

“Last year, you told me that you believed that the reason you won the election is because God put you in this place so that you could save the world. Looking back [after] one year, do you feel like God is proud of the effort that you’ve [given]?”

To be clear, it was during President Trump’s second Inaugural address that he stated, “Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then and we believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”

President Trump didn’t quibble with the reporter’s premise, but did answer with a bit of a chuckle.

“I do actually,” he said. “I think God is very proud of the job I’ve done.” He then added, “We’re protecting a lot of people that are being killed. Christians, Jewish people, and lots of people are being protected by me that wouldn’t be protected …”

They are appeasing the Christian right with prayer services in the White House and the Pentagon. The Secretary of Defense Hegseth has said he is explicitly prioritizing leaders who reject "progressive" values in favor of what he calls "Biblical" and "traditional" standards. He has been vocal about wanting a military guided by Christian faith.

Trump and Vance gush over extremist at Christian nationalist conference

Activist David Lane has called for Christians to wield complete control over society and supported the idea of rioting over legal abortion.

MS Now

Sep. 11, 2025

By Ja'han Jones

President Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, issued videotaped remarks to attendees at a conference hosted by an avowed Christian nationalist this week.

Trump — who has previously dismissed concerns about the separation of church and state when he announced his “religious liberty commission” and claimed the country would be better if right-wing Christians had more power — declared his support for far-right political operative David Lane via a prerecorded, 90-second address to Lane’s Nehemiah Project Pastors Summit in North Carolina this week. The endorsement shows the president’s alignment with a figure who has advocated for “war for the Soul of America.”

Lane has a history of encouraging right-wing religious figures to run for office as Republicans to put their Christian worldview into political practice. As Right Wing Watch noted, Trump and Vance’s speeches praised those efforts, with Trump crediting Lane for inspiring “dozens of faith leaders to run for office and to win elections” and saying he was “cheering on” Lane’s plan to “recruit 500 church members to run for office in 2026 and 2028.” Vance also praised Lane’s plan and claimed the activist is helping “pastors and congregations re-enter the public square and fight for our nation, helping them to register, to vote, to run for office, and to stand up for biblical truth.”

To be clear, there isn’t anything wrong with churchgoing people — even pastors — running for office, so long as they don’t try to impose their religion on others. But that’s precisely what Lane has encouraged them to do. Right Wing Watch has a list of some of Lane’s positions, many of these dating to around a decade ago:

He once urged conservative Christians to prepare for martyrdom in their fight to ‘save the nation from the pagan onslaught’ of marriage equality and legal abortion. He preaches that the U.S. has a divine mission to glorify God and advance the Christian faith. He called the separation of church and state a ‘lie’ and a ‘fabricated whopper’ designed to stop ‘Christian America—the moral majority—from imposing moral government on pagan public schools, pagan higher learning and pagan media.’ He argued that Christianity must ‘eradicate’ secularism. He once complained that there was ‘not a peep from the Christian Church’ in response to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, when the church ‘should have initiated riots, revolution, and repentance.’

But the base is getting finicky between what is happening in Minneapolis and the Epstein files! The Christian base is a nervous Nelly right now.

It is not a secret that he is supported by the religious right, but that base is very, very shaky!

He Spent Decades Building the Religious Right. Now He’s Marching to Undo It.

“This is redemption.”

Mother Jones

Sam VanPykeren

January 25, 2026

He helped build the religious right in the United States. Now he’s in Minneapolis to join the clergy’s fight against ICE’s siege of the city.

He helped build the religious right in the United States. Now he’s in Minneapolis to join the clergy’s fight against ICE’s siege of the city.

“Being here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul,” said the Reverend Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades commingling church and state to advance conservative causes like the anti-abortion movement. One example: Schenck’s organization, Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, created “Operation Higher Court,” which trained wealthy couples as “stealth missionaries” to befriend Supreme Court justices to preserve, in his words, a Christian nation.

Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause, including what he believes was his role in delivering “the entities that are now inflicting all of this suffering on so many people”—extending to the rise of President Donald Trump. “We made this terrible deal with Donald Trump because we were already demoralized,” he told Mother Jones in 2018. “He didn’t demoralize us—he is the evidence of our demoralization.”

Is Minneapolis causing a riff in the Christian right?

Christianity Today writes,

You can say all that and still say this: What the federal government is doing in Minnesota is intolerable. It is chaotic, reckless, and overbearing. It is a misuse of authority, an incompetent and authoritarian means even insofar as it pursues a democratically invited end.

The Trump administration should be able to enforce immigration law without tear-gassing infants, arresting peaceful clergy, smashing the windows of open cars, and pepper-spraying protesters in the face from four inches away. It should be able to do it without using cheap AI edits to callously lie about Americans. It should be able to do it without making a sick joke—and I do hope it was a joke—about putting citizens in databases for the mere expression of dissent.

His base hasn't fractured but it is quibbling! They don't like what they are seeing!