Daily News | Doug Mastriano embodies a Christian nationalist movement as he runs for governor: ‘We have the power of God’
, and for his presence at the Jan. 6, 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington that led to the Capitol attack.
The movement’s adherents want to see Christianity “fused with American civic life” — from education to business to government — and are “very comfortable with violence and militarism in order to essentially defend this idea of a Christian nation,” said Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at Indiana University and coauthor of the bookMastriano’s platform is not dissimilar from that of his opponents. He supports gun rights, charter schools, and lower taxes. He opposes vaccine mandates and abortion.
Mastriano’s campaign did not respond to interview requests. When an Inquirer reporter showed up at a campaign event in Lancaster County last month, two security guards asked him to leave. A printout of his photograph and those of other journalists was visible at the check-in desk. “We’re not very trusting of reporters right now,” a campaign representative said.
These bona fides are on display at rallies and in his rhetoric — from the shofar-blower on stage at his campaign launch, to the biblical allusions built into his mantra to “walk as free people,” to calls to action like “Let’s rise up and secure our state.
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