Well, That Was Fast: Why Spangler’s ‘We Need a Protestant Hitler’ Was Entirely Predictable

Eight days ago, I posted this article on Substack, wondering how long it would take for someone in the increasingly deranged Woke Right Christian Nationalist crowd to call for a “Final Solution.” Here’s what I wrote just over a week ago: 

“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?’”

And a week to the day later, Michael Spangler, who was divested from his role as a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 2024, basically became the first figure of note in the Woke Right Christian Nationalist movement to finally go there on X:

Here’s his whole thread:

This was not a verbatim call for a “Final Solution,” but good grief, what about it isn’t right in line with all that incrementally unfolded in Nazi ideology before the idea of a Holocaust began to emerge from the carefully laid groundwork? This is like precariously balancing on the very edge of a pier, with one foot fully in the water as your other foot angles slowly up and your entire body is plunging forward. When you’re advocating for Hitler, with not even a minor caveat that you’re against the Holocaust, you’re gone. You’re exposed. You’re fully in the water.

The maddening part is that no one who’s followed this movement for the last few years in any detail is shocked at all that Spangler would say something like this. He is, after all, the same man who has a lengthy and consistent record of saying shockingly racist things on X, and you can see for yourself his deeper depravity on display in the “Race Realism” articles he wrote a few years ago. As OPC pastor David Vogel has pointed out:

“The series’ basic argument can be outlined as follows: 1. Race is real. 2. Differences between races are real, and remain relatively constant over time. 3. Because of these differences, some races are definitely and fixedly superior to others, with the white race preeminent.

From this third point, various applications are drawn, such as opposing interracial marriage, promoting segregation in society and church, opposing equal civil rights for non-whites, calling for the removal of non-white immigrants regardless of legal status, and suggesting foreign missions should be deemphasized to focus on revitalization of beleaguered white churches.”

This movement is now where an increasing number of Christians had expected it would end up, and I am sure this is only going to get worse before the Lord’s true disciples (not to mention the Lord!) have finally had enough of it.

All I can reiterate is that a whole lot of Christians and Christian leaders who have watched the ascent of this demonic movement had the chance to speak out against it three years ago — when it was obviously emerging — and all the years that followed.

Warned repeatedly, they turned a blind eye and refused to condemn CN. Some, because they were themselves closet white supremacists or at least sympathetic to them. More, because of politics — which is absolutely true and also one of the most revolting realities yet to be fully discussed.

Let me just ask the latter: What say you now?