After Iran: A Test for MAGA Christianity
Summary
What happens when an apocalyptic enemy becomes a negotiating partner?
The Trump administration's new memorandum of understanding with Iran may ease immediate geopolitical tensions, but it raises deeper questions for the religious and political movements that helped justify confrontation in the first place.
For decades, Christian nationalists and conservative evangelicals have interpreted conflicts in the Middle East through the lens of end-times prophecy, spiritual warfare, and America's supposed divine mission. Iran has often occupied a central place in those narratives—as an enemy of God, a threat to Christian America, and even a sign of the approaching apocalypse.
Now that the administration appears willing to negotiate rather than escalate, what happens to those narratives?
In this Axis Daily Brief, Dan Miller examines the fault lines emerging within MAGA Christianity: between end-times believers who framed Iran as an existential spiritual threat and America First nationalists who opposed foreign intervention altogether. As the political realities of diplomacy collide with apocalyptic expectations, new tensions are emerging inside the coalition that helped bring Trump back to power.
What happened to the end of the world? The answer may tell us a great deal about the future of Christian nationalism.
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