Donald Trump lists Roxanne Pruitt as a member of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, saying that she is a “youth leader”.
There is no record, however, of any work Roxanne Pruitt has done as a youth leader at any Iowa church or other religious organization or community.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that Roxanne Pruitt has never done anything that might be categorized as the work of a religious youth leader. Perhaps Roxanne Pruitt has taught Sunday school. Maybe she was a counselor at a church camp.
What we can say is that there is no publicly available evidence of Roxanne Pruitt ever having done such a thing.
If Roxanne Pruitt ever has been a youth leader at a religious organization, nobody has ever taken enough notice of her work to write a word about it, or even make a quick post on social media.
Why, then, is Donald Trump bragging about having Roxanne Pruitt in his Iowa Faith Leader Coalition?
People talk a lot about Christian Nationalism in the abstract, but a new Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, provides an analysis of Christian Nationalism that is grounded in what Christian Nationalists actually say and do.
Forget the theory and theology. This case study is based solely on information about the 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
You wouldn’t expect Iowa to be the source of stories about Nazi propaganda, murder-suicide, terrorism, money laundering and business fraud, monsters and magic spells, faith healing and guns, ancient prophecies of eternal torture, and a growing Christian Nationalist hunger for global genocidal war. Defying expectations, that is just what the authors found.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.