The Nazi Christian Nationalist Agenda of the America First Policy Institute

This episode is the first in a series on the Nazi roots and Christian Nationalist Fascism of Donald Trump's America First Policy Institute.

Paula White Cain, a Christian Nationalist board member of the America First Policy Institute, declares that the American people are too imperfect to be trusted to govern themselves, and that Christian rulers must have control over American government instead.

If you know anything about American history, you know that’s exactly the opposite of what the Founding Fathers wanted, and what the Constitution promises to us.

It’s Thursday, October 31st, Halloween. With just a few days before Election Day 2024, you have only a few days left to vote in the presidential election.

I hope you understand at this point what is at stake. This election is about whether you want the United States of America to surrender its democracy and to replace freedom with a Christian nationalist, fascist dictatorship.

You may think that I'm being extreme in talking about the election using this kind of language. The extremism of the moment has its origin in Donald Trump, who has promised to use the military to crack down on political dissent, to go after American citizens on American soil simply for disagreeing with him. Trump has threatened to put millions of people into concentration camps, and talked about exterminating Americans like “vermin”.

All of this, Donald Trump seeks to do in the name of Christianity. Trump has announced that if he becomes President, he will elevate Christianity above all other religions. Trump's supporters enthusiastically applaud an agenda that is clearly Christian, nationalist, and fascist.

I am not using the word “fascist” to describe Donald Trump and his Christian Nationalist supporters in a casual sense. I am issuing a serious warning about the development of a political and cultural movement in the United States that is fascist in the sense that the Nazi Party was fascist.

Don't take my word for this. Take the word of the America First Policy Institute. The America First Policy Institute is an organization that is working with the Trump for President campaign to organize his presidential transition. If Donald Trump wins or manages to seize power in 2024, it is the America First Policy Institute that will prepare the way for Trump’s extreme policy platforms to become a legal reality.

The work of this organization is fundamentally based in Christian Nationalism and fascism. To begin to understand this, pay attention to this group’s name. They call themselves the America First Policy Institute. They refer to their ideology as the America First Agenda

America First is a term with a very specific history and political meaning.

The phrase America First and the America First Agenda was first articulated in 1939, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were bringing their movement to a new level of belligerence and violence. There could be no mistaking what the Nazis intended to do. Hitler provoked a war on the European continent that spread around the entire world. At the same time, the Nazis hastened their programs of industrial homicide against all those who failed to conform and submit to their nationalist regime.

Donald Trump has said that Adolf Hitler many good things during his time as the Nazi Fuhrer and Chancellor of Germany. Actually, Hitler was an ineffective leader who was increasingly dependent on drugs like heroin and speed. His addictions and compulsions made his thinking chaotic. Hitler literally ruined Germany. By the time Hitler was done being the German leader, most of his country was reduced to rubble. He promised greatness, but delivered incompetence.

The warning signs were always there long before 1939, but there were many Americans who loved what Adolf Hitler stood for, because he aligned with their fears and hatreds in the same way that Donald Trump does today. On February 20th, 1939, in Madison Square Garden, the German American Bund, an organization that was created and funded by the Nazi Party of Germany with the mission of infiltrating American society, they held a gigantic, where they promoted an extremist right wing racist agenda.

These American Nazis organized their movement around one central concept: America First.

Like the Nazi Party that created it, the America First Agenda is fascist through and through.