Throughout this fast-paced account, Stewart brings the reader into the halls of power, past and present, that have given us the world of 2020...making a clear case for how deeply Christian nationalism is intertwined with U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

The book, in essence an expanded and updated version of 2012’s The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children, is a timely and useful introduction to the single most organized force in American politics today.

Though its advocates like to speak the rhetoric of abolitionism, Stewart shows us that this movement is suffused with a disturbing affinity for slavery. This is an unsettling echo of an old-time religion.

To write this book, Ms. Stewart crisscrossed the nation to attend important 'Christian nationalist' events. She interviewed dozens of leaders and connected a dizzying number of their organizations with one another. But she committed one major journalistic sin that leaves her wide open to fair criticism. There is no evidence that she offered any of the people she named an opportunity to comment on her findings.

Journalist Stewart...paints a disturbing picture in this thorough accounting of the rise of religious nationalism.

...a comprehensive, chilling look at America’s Christian nationalist movement, which she convincingly portrays as a highly organized political coalition that has 'already transformed the political landscape and shaken the foundations upon which lay our democratic norms and institutions'.

Though its stated aim is to advance religious freedom, Stewart argues convincingly that the true goal is to inundate as many states as possible with so many right-wing bills that it will jam the state legislative processes. Many readers will consider the book advocacy journalism because the author didn’t seek out her targets’ comments, but the thoroughly researched facts as she lays them out are hard to argue with.