But of course, when God created angels and humans who were free, he took a risk--that these creatures would abuse their freedom. They might rebel against him and go their own way in pride and selfishness.

Sutton approvingly quotes one author asserting that Evangelical Christian nationalism "includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism. It is as ethnic and political as it is religious." They want to "create boundaries of group membership around race and the right of white Americans to segregate themselves from minorities."

The next step must be to go beyond the concern for the "cancel culture," and call for a thorough examination of all the major differences between the ideals of the American experiment and the claims and demands of the progressive left. In essence, America's choice is between the ideas and ideals of 1776 and the American Revolution versus those that have come down from 1789 and the French Revolution.

This is not "annexation." According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, "Annexation by use of force of territory of another state" is a "grave crime of aggression." It means an offensive war against another state in which the state being invaded has its territory seized. Think of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974. But Israel regained control of the West Bank in 1967 after a defensive war and when the West Bank was not a state.