Article in Media Matters by Payton Armstrong, 2/27/25
Headline: “Right-wing media cheer Trump’s anti-Christian bias task force after years of laying the groundwork”
Subhead: “Right-wing commentators have spent years claiming that the Biden administration was ‘waging spiritual warfare against Christianity’ and that ‘the left wants to drive Christians out of the public square’ “
“A task force created by President Donald Trump to eradicate alleged ‘anti-Christian bias’ is drawing praise from right-wing media figures — some of whom have spent years baselessly claiming that Christians are a persecuted group in the United States, even though experts say there’s no such widespread bias.
“Right-wing commentators celebrated Trump’s task force as ‘a cultural resurgency’ and declared that ‘this is the counter-revolution against their color revolution that occurred in the summer of 2020’.
“In one instance, Christian nationalist media figure Lance Wallnau joined Steve Bannon’s podcast to praise the task force as the first step in the ‘recapturing of institutions,’ . . .