The Secular State's Slippery Slope As thousands of cheering conservatives, evangelicals, and MAGA activists gathered on the National Mall for "Rededicate 250," a sense of unease settled over me.
This event, backed by the White House and funded with taxpayer money, marked a clear expression of the Trump era effort to fuse American identity with Christianity.
The irony is rich, given Washington's decades long lectures to other countries about the dangers of mixing religion with nationalism. Yet now, it seems we're witnessing a disturbing trend in our own backyard.