Maybe you’ve heard of Heidi Przybyla. Maybe you haven’t. She’s a reporter at Politico who the leftists at NBC News, who put her on MSNBC all the time, simply love. Przybyla was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, which is a nice honor for her, owing to her participation in the leaking of the draft Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs case.

I can sum Przybyla up in one acronym. She’s an AWFL — an affluent white female leftist — and she conforms almost completely to type with respect to opinions, tone, mannerisms, and attitudes. There isn’t a great deal of individuality among AWFLs, particularly those who work in media. They know everything, even the things they clearly don’t know, and they’re happy to tell you all about it even when it’s clear the ignorance shines more brightly than those pearly whites on camera.

And on Friday, Przybyla was on MSNBC, as usual, holding forth about “Christian nationalists,” which is the Left’s new bogeyman. Except it didn’t really go so well:

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— Heidi Przybyla ???? (@HeidiReports) February 23, 2024

Przybyla got her nose very out of joint when the 21 seconds of her explaining that the “Christian nationalist” groups surrounding Donald Trump all believe that our rights come from God rather than man were clipped out and shared around the internet, which presented her and the class of people she represents as antagonists to both Christians and the writers of the Declaration of Independence.

She had the second sentence of the Declaration repeatedly thrown in her face amid a colossal ratio on Xwitter. You know, the thing?:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Przybyla protests that she’s being taken out of context in this 21-second clip.

The problem is that the full two-minute conversation doesn’t help her cause.

Her trouble starts — but doesn’t end — with the formulation of “Christian nationalist” in the first place, something that Przybyla is parroting from whatever leftist narrative factory (Anita Dunn’s SDK Knickerbocker?) has prepackaged. Which is that “Christian nationalism” is of a piece with the “white supremacism” that Team Obama and its offshoot, Team Biden, have been attempting to convince the nation is the No. 1 terrorist threat facing the country.

There is nothing novel or even threatening about “Christian nationalism,” and there never has been. It’s been here from the very beginning of America — settled, as this land was, by Christians (and Jews, who come from the same tradition of values and moral laws) from Europe who sought a better society than was offered by the corrupt nations from which they came.

America was founded as a Christian nation. Some 29 seminary students signed the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, held up by the “separation of church and state” crowd as a hero for his much-misunderstood Danbury Church letters, oversaw Sunday church services in the U.S. Capitol building — which should tell you something the atheists and anti-religious folks don’t want you to know about his ideas on public-sector secularism.

Our culture, our values, our economics, and our politics are based on Christianity, or at least Judeo-Christianity. As John Adams wrote in a 1798 letter to the men of the Massachusetts militia:

Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by … morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition … Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Emphasis mine, though I’m sure that if Adams had a “bold” key back then he would have employed it in the same place.

To be a Christian nationalist is merely to take seriously the writings and statements of the men who founded this country, the greatest nation in the history of the world.

And while Przybyla and the rest of the too-cool-for-church-school set are quite unnerved that they would be called out for anti-Christian bigotry, they’re just as opposed to “Christian” as they are “nationalist.”

That’s as clear from the two-minute version of the clip as it is from the 21-second version.

Because while she implies that the “rights come from God” part isn’t problematic in itself but in its use to make policy, her argument falls apart completely.

Yes, as she argues, Martin Luther King Jr. successfully used the arguments of the Declaration to advance the cause of civil rights and his vision of a colorblind society. Except the modern Left, those who are attacking Christian nationalists as a threat to “our democracy,” don’t believe in King’s vision of a colorblind America. They’re the people pushing critical race theory and DEI in order to discriminate against Americans of European and East Asian stock in college admissions, the workplace, and elsewhere.

But the absurdity only gets worse from there.

For example, Przybyla acts as though pro-life Christians making laws limiting abortions in places where they’re a majority are “extreme.”

Let’s remember that every major Christian denomination anyone takes seriously has voiced opposition to abortion and, in particular, to the unlimited abortion-on-demand such as that favored by today’s modern Democrat Party. Polling indicates that only one in six Americans — a true fringe if ever there were one — are for unlimited abortion.

As for the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling on embryos, which the Left has used as a weapon to paint conservatives as extreme, that state’s Legislature is pushing legislation limiting the effect of that ruling, and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, whom Przybyla’s MSNBC friends and others can’t stop tarring with the “Christian nationalist” label, came out publicly in support of the legislators.

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That statement was attacked by the Left, which alleges that Johnson’s support for a personhood bill they say would essentially codify the Alabama Supreme Court ruling makes him a liar.

Naturally you aren’t allowed to hold Democrat politicians to such standards because of the comic results that would yield.

You also aren’t supposed to be a nationalist of any kind in America — because, according to them, this is a nation founded on racism and slavery and the theft of the Native Americans’ land, et cetera ad absurdum.

There are couple of things to understand in context here.

First, Przybyla is forwarding a worldview very similar to that offered by the Obama Justice Department in the Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor cases, both of which it lost. Namely, that while we have freedom of religion in this country, that freedom in practice doesn’t mean much more than your right to go to church. But it doesn’t extend to you attempting to live out that faith in your commercial activities — as in, your religious opposition to abortion doesn’t save you from purchasing Obamacare-mandated health insurance that includes abortion pills — when the government makes rules discriminating against your viewpoint.

That’s a view of religious freedom that has made appearances in various places around the world over the past century and change. Perhaps the most prominent was in the Soviet Union’s constitution. And yes, the attitude toward Christians here is indistinct from that of the commissars.

Secondly, regular readers will know that I’m a broken record in reciting my Gramsci to explain the modern Left, because it’s crucial to recognize that the dead Italian communist is the wellspring for everything you see from these people. Gramsci explained the failure of the Marxist proletarian revolution to materialize after World War I in the Western countries as resulting from three things: Christianity, nationalism, and charity.

And that breaking the three was the key to the revolution.

Gramsci is known for his formulation of the “long march through the institutions,” by which the communists would achieve hegemony over a society and then effect a “fundamental transformation” upon it. But the aim of the long march was to destroy Christianity, nationalism, and charity.

Here we are 100 years later, and Heidi Przybyla is trashing Christian nationalists for standing up for the traditional worldview that held hegemony in this country as late as a generation ago.

It’s really something to see.

Antonio Gramsci would be quite proud of Heidi Przybyla. So would lots of other dead communists — and live ones, too.

But for the rest of us, who found ourselves slurred for believing that our rights come from God and that public policy ought to reflect that belief, apparently we’re all Christian nationalists now.

And if that’s who we are, then fine. We’ll be proud Christian nationalists, and we’ll wonder why we have to listen to lectures from commie wreckers like Heidi Przybyla and her MSNBC and Politico pals.