Are Christian Nationalists Inching Toward Saying the Unspeakable?

“It is not known when the leaders of Nazi Germany definitively decided to implement the ‘Final Solution.’ What is clear, however, is that the ‘Final Solution’ was the culmination of a decade of increasingly severe discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures implemented by the Nazis.”

– U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Woke Right Christian Nationalists have had a longstanding pattern of gingerly hinting at evil, “envelope-pushing” ideas just until they feel comfortable enough to advocate for them outright. The timing has to work, you see. People have to be propagandized enough to accept what’s next.

Just in the past few weeks, that pattern has made me start to wonder: Who’s going to be the first in this CN crowd, or maybe the adjacent groyper MAGA crowd, to finally drop the term “Final Solution?”

Then, this week, New Hampshire state Rep. Travis Corcoran, a Republican, posted this on X:

New Hampshire’s WMUR reported: 

“The speaker of the New Hampshire House is condemning a social media post made by a Republican state representative from Weare. In his post, state Rep. Travis Corcoran, R-Weare, called for a ‘final solution’ against a Jewish member of the House. On Monday, state Rep. Jessica Grill, D-Manchester, sent an e-mail to her colleagues inviting them to join a ‘karaoke caucus’ at a Concord bar after the legislative session day. Her message included a joke poem about hunting with ferrets, a recent issue debated by lawmakers. Corcoran posted her e-mail on X and wrote, ‘We need a final solution for theater kids in politics,’ which many interpreted as a reference to the Holocaust.  Grill is Jewish. … Corcoran did not respond to a request for comment.”

Corcoron then posted an exchange he’d had with the WMUR reporter who’d written the story, Adam Sexton:

After he was condemned by the New Hampshire House speaker, Corcoron responded this way to a Boston Globe reporter asking him, “Will you apologize to your colleagues for your ‘final solution’ post?”

Corcoran also reposted this:

Corcoran, per CNN, is the same person who responded to the 2011 shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords with the following blog post comment: “One down and 534 to go. It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately.”

Added the now-politician at the time: “Target only politicians and their staff and leave regular citizens alone.”

To be fair, Corcoran does not fall into the Christian Nationalist camp, but a read of his X feed shows that his views on many political topics certainly overlap with those of the CN crowd. The attitude, rebellious spirit and anger are the same. And the doubling-down and failing to apologize for offensive comments is markedly similar to the posts you’ll see daily on X from Christian Nationalists.

With this all in mind, let’s now take a brief look at what William Wolfe, executive director of American Reformer’s “assumed name,” The Center for Baptist Leadership, has been posting lately:

“Moderate solution?” What does that mean? William has long been open about his support for mass deportation of illegal aliens, but this post is at another level. Yet he won’t say the next logical sentence explaining what the “stronger” solution is, whatever it is, because he clearly only wants to hint around at it.

One might ask William: What comes after a “moderate solution” of mass deportation? Is there a “stronger” or, I daresay, even a “final” solution of any kind to illegal immigration? What would that entail? I’m not trying to put words in his mouth, mind you. But he’s the one who’s saying mass deportations are merely “moderate,” so one can only speculate as to the thoughts he’s leaving untyped.

This is the same man who recently said these things:

The repulsive Joel Webbon, of course, has long ignored Matt. 5:43-46 when it comes to how Christians should view their enemies:

Don’t forget the words of Wesley Todd, the Robin to Webbon’s Batman on the Right Response podcast. Here he is, defending the views of one of the CNs’ intellectual heroes, Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt:

And, of course, the “crush them!” mentality toward perceived “enemies” was there from the beginning of this movement. Behold the author of “The Case for Christian Nationalism,” Stephen Wolfe:

Again, I want to emphasize I’m absolutely not accusing any of these Woke Right Christian Nationalists of crossing the line into “final solution” talk. None of them have used that term, as far as I can tell. And I cannot argue that any of them have even had such a thought. I just don’t know.

But I have read what they have written and heard what many of them have said over the past few years. They have a history of introducing outrageous ideas through the drip-drip-drip method. They do things like calling strong mass-deportation efforts the “moderate solution” for dealing with illegal immigrants, without finishing the thought and explaining what the “stronger” solution to dealing with them might be. They freely discuss “crushing and hating” enemies. They regularly condemn the alleged evils of Jews, women, atheists and various racial and religious minorities. Some already have spoken of the deaths of their “enemies” in positive terms.

These are Americans — MAGA Republicans, yet — saying these things. Worse, they claim to be Christian pastors and leaders! It’s absolutely unconscionable.

I don’t know exactly where this is all headed. I cannot predict the future.

All I’m asking is: How long will it be before one of them finally goes there?