Following the 2026 midterm election losses, the Republican Party is searching for a post-Trump identity. Far-right Christian nationalists, however, are already positioning themselves to shape the party’s future. Joel Webbon is a key figure in this movement, outlining a six-year strategy to The Atlantic to bring his vision to fruition.
Webbon believes the GOP’s midterm defeat, a potential Democratic victory in 2028 and growing dissatisfaction among Republican and MAGA voters with Democratic leadership could create the perfect opening for a Christian nationalist candidate to capture the White House in 2032.
Webbon says the GOP’s loss is actually a good thing and the perfect setup to usher in his strategy execution. The remainder of his plan is expected to be promoted at a three-day conference outside Dallas this week, titled “Christ Is King: America After Trump.” Webbon, a senior pastor and podcaster with followers in the hundreds of thousands, believes he has a strong enough foundation to expand his following.
Webbon explains why he believes the audience may be ready for a Christian nationalist takeover. He criticizes both political parties with antisemitic and homophobic rhetoric, and relies on stereotypes about Jewish and LGBTQ+ people to argue that neither party upholds his version of traditional Christian values.
Webbon’s six-year plan is broken down into three phases. Following phase 1 with the GOP’s loss, Webbon wants 31-year-old James Fishback, who previously ran an unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial primary campaign, to run for president in 2028. The goal is not for Fishback to win. Instead, it’s part of a larger strategy to get him back in the public eye and grow the Christian nationalists’ support.
Because of the obvious midterm loss for the GOP, Webbon expects the Democrats to stay in power until at least 2032, which he says is phase 3 of his plan. He believes voters will grow frustrated with Democratic leadership, making way for him, Nick Fuentes, or Fishback to announce their bid for the presidency.
“It’ll be Nick, or Nick may not want to do it. It’ll be James, you know, or it’ll be me, or it’ll be someone else. Maybe I’m a faith adviser, something like that. But that’s the plan, and it’s not even, like, a plan that we wrote. It’s the obvious thing that’s happening,” Webbon asserts, referring to his belief that a Christian nationalist political movement will naturally emerge as the successor to Trump’s MAGA movement.
As for what a Christian-nationalist-led government will look like, Webbon states it clearly. They seek to end the 19th Amendment, starting with that. Women’s suffrage is a picture of a woman punching herself in the face,” Webbon said. He predicts Democrats will make things so bad that by 2032, “a lot of women will be like, ‘Yeah, we want to survive, we want to be safe, we want to be secure, we want to prosper, and we’re willing to forfeit control.’”
Webbon and his desired administration will have a strict deportation task force, icing out what he refers to as those who can’t define themselves as “heritage Americans,” which includes those who do not define themselves as his type of Christian.