This is the kind of thing that I find deeply concerning:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z7EsHjPu2ss

I can't quite put my finger on it. But it feels like a co-option, a pied piper thing, like the "free" cheese in a trap. Not that there's anything wrong with what he says, per se, it's the environment around it. The stage. The show. The rah-rah rhetoric on the surface and the string-pullers behind the curtain. The appeal to emotion and a martyr complex. The almost pearl-clutching way they speak about what ails us as a "nation" (whatever that means) and the framing of the only acceptable prognosis (true enough in itself, but) that can also get co-opted into something vicious. The litmus tests of acceptable opinion. The marshaling of a wholesome but perhaps naive patriotism into Their Sacred Cause. The parasitic ideas that get latched on to otherwise healthy (even godly) ideas. I don't know. Something.

I don't quite know how to say it, but it just seems really off, really dangerous.

Keep your guard up, brothers and sisters. Things are getting weirder by the hour.

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This is what happens when we worship martyrdom. “There is nothing for sacred than laying down your life for your fellow man, political party, and political ideology.”

“The soul of America”

I think maybe you are reacting to the tying together of faith and politics.

I agree with everything he said. I don't think clergy should run for office, they have a much higher calling. I do think, however, that men of faith should be encouraged to seek those same offices. Our country is (supposed to be) ultimately governed by the laws we have. If we abdicate our responsibility to enact said laws to people who are ungodly, then the body of law will shift (has shifted) to reflect their ungodly "values".

This is not to say that I agree or disagree with the form of government in any particular region. I think this is universally true.

I don't necessarily disagree with anything he said either, it's the framing and the context of it that I find troubling, and susceptible to co-option.

I agree that men of faith ought to pursue office, but not to propagate that faith--to execute the office faithfully in accordance with righteous laws. Political office, in other words, is not "kingdom work" -- unless one means the common kingdom -- it's not "redemptive kingdom" work. As you said, that's for a different institution, with different means, and different (higher, eternal) ends. Justice, on the other hand, is not a uniquely Christian principle.