Chuck Darwin<p>Dominionist leaders attending the youth-focused <br>Turning Point USA <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericaFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericaFest</span></a> conference in Phoenix over the weekend<br> portrayed Donald Trump’s election as a "spiritual warfare victory", <br>and urged Christian-right activists to “occupy” more territory by building a bigger Republican majority in Congress. </p><p>The AmericaFest speaker lineup included Trump, <br>other MAGA politicians, <br>right-wing commentators like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tucker</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a>, <br>and dominionists like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallnau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wallnau</span></a>. <br>House Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled a planned appearance after becoming the target of MAGA rage over a bipartisan budget deal that was attacked by Elon Musk. </p><p>In recent years, <a href="https://c.im/tags/TPUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TPUSA</span></a> founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Charlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Charlie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kirk</span></a> has made a public shift from promoting a kind a snarky, irreverent libertarianism <br>to embracing an aggressive Christian nationalism that characterizes much of the MAGA movement today. <br>Broadcasting from AmericaFest’s media row on Thursday night was “FlashPoint,” <br>a show launched by televangelist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kenneth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kenneth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Copeland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copeland</span></a>’s "Victory Channel" in the fall of 2020 <br>that has been a platform for pro-Trump propaganda and prophesying. <br>One panelist was Pastor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rob</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McCoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McCoy</span></a>, a spiritual mentor to Kirk, who told viewers that he had been at TPUSA’s headquarters on election night, <br>and that when Pennsylvania was called for Trump, Kirk started weeping and said, “All glory to God.”</p><p>A recurring theme from the show’s host <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gene</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bailey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bailey</span></a> and his panelists was that Trump’s victory is no reason for the church to relax. <br>Wallnau said that conservative evangelical Christians are the key to keeping the political pendulum swinging to the right in the midterm elections two years from now</p><p><a href="https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/spiritual-warfare-and-dominionist-ideology-tpusas-americafest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/s</span><span class="invisible">piritual-warfare-and-dominionist-ideology-tpusas-americafest</span></a></p>