All this to say, we need to remember 1/6 for exactly what it was: a violent insurrection that threatened the very core of what we imagine the US to be--a country for the people, by the people.

White Christian nationalism demands a country for *a* particular people only.

Pair this with the tendency of Americans who embrace Christian nationalism to want to limit access to voting to the "worthy" few (people like them), and we can see that CN is interested in democracy only to the extent it returns favorable results.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12776

Should we continue to see white Christian nationalism as a threat to democracy? Yes. Why?

Data collected by Sam Perry soon after 1/6 and then 6 months later shows that Americans who embrace Christian nationalism grew *more* supportive of those who stormed the Capitol.

Element #3: Christian nationalism is strongly associated with support for QAnon and conspiratorial thinking.

Element #4: Christian nationalism is strongly associated with information sources that routinely support all of the above elements.