With the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision affirming birthright citizenship and millions of illegal aliens still needing to be deported, it can be tempting to despair over the apparent failures of President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda.
But Andrew Isker, an author and pastor in Tennessee, said conservatives should expect these things to take time, and they should actually be encouraged by the progress being made.
Isker joined "1819 News: The Podcast" last Wednesday, where he and host Bryan Dawson had a wide-ranging conversation on immigration, from the SCOTUS decision, national identity and the World Cup, to the concept of "Globohomo" — the push toward a borderless, homogenized global culture.
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"The fact that it's a very split decision is something to be very optimistic about, I think. Obviously, these things take a long time, and the court gets things wrong. I mean, they got Roe vs. Wade wrong for 50 years," Isker said of the ruling. "...This is something I think we should be much more optimistic about than you would naturally be being handed an L by the Supreme Court. And especially if you look at left-wing commentary on it. They're out of their minds that it wasn't 9-0. They're like weeping and gnashing teeth that it wasn't this nine-nothing rebuke of Trump."
Isker said it could still be years away, but he's confident birthright citizenship will one day be overturned. He said it often takes time for Washington to catch up and reflect the voters' consensus, given the nature of term lengths and election cycles.
"You start the clock at like 2016 at the beginning of MAGA. You might not have like the Senate catch up to where the American people are, or at least the American right is, for an entire 20 years," he said. "It might be 2036 before it reflects the political priorities of 2016. That's the thing that I'm like constantly telling people: things are getting better."
With that in mind, Isker encouraged conservatives and Christians to continue to fight against the left's agenda of demoralization and globalization by living out their faith publicly.
"The antidote to that is public Christianity," he said. "I mean, that's what the whole controversy over Christian nationalism actually is, is: just Christians behaving today like Christians have for thousands of years — that I am publicly a Christian, that I want my nation to be Christian. I want it to have Christian laws. I want our way of life to be Christian, that we had for centuries. That's the antidote to these things: just saying, 'No, we're Christians. You don't like it, too bad. Get over it.'"
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