Pat Kahnke is the author of the book ”Maga Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience,” which was published before the 2020 election. He was an evangelical church planter and pastor for twenty years before retiring from church ministry in 2016. Planted a church in the inner city of St. Paul, MN - part of the Baptist General Conference (Converge) and Alliance for Renewal Churches. A lifelong conservative Republican until the party left him in 2016. Now a political independent, he has written off the Republican party until it completes 40 years in the wilderness for its capitulation to the MAGA movement.
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Pat Kahnke is the author of the book ”Maga Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience,” which was published before the 2020 election. He was an evangelical church planter and pastor for twenty years before retiring from church ministry in 2016. Planted a church in the inner city of St. Paul, MN - part of the Baptist General Conference (Converge) and Alliance for Renewal Churches. A lifelong conservative Republican until the party left him in 2016. Now a political independent, he has written off the Republican party until it completes 40 years in the wilderness for its capitulation to the MAGA movement.
Channel contains political and social commentary related to issues at the intersection of culture, faith, and politics.
Compassionate Opposition Is NOT "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke
44 minutes
3 months ago
Compassionate Opposition Is NOT "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Adam Swenson writes at https://substack.com/@friendlyneighborhoodphilosopher
Pat Kahnke's Substack page: https://culturefaithandpolitics.substack.com/
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon:
"A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny
"MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ
In this episode of Culture, Faith, and Politics, Pat Kahnke and Adam Swenson tackle a loaded label: Trump Derangement Syndrome. Is it a legitimate critique—or a tactic to silence moral and spiritual conviction?
Drawing from real-life stories—Facebook fights, global health missions, and encounters with cruelty—they explore how the Trump era is reshaping Christian identity, numbing compassion, and redefining what it means to love your neighbor. They confront the growing cultural pressure to suppress emotion, detach from injustice, and label empathy as weakness.
Rooted in James 1:27, they ask: What if caring deeply is actually obedience, not derangement?
With political honesty, biblical grounding, and a call to stay tender in a hardening world, this episode challenges listeners to resist authoritarian tactics and reclaim faith as a force for healing—not harm.
📖 Featuring themes of:
Christian nationalism
Emotional integrity vs. political gaslighting
The character cost of supporting cruelty
Why compassion is not derangement—but discipleship
Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke
Pat Kahnke is the author of the book ”Maga Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience,” which was published before the 2020 election. He was an evangelical church planter and pastor for twenty years before retiring from church ministry in 2016. Planted a church in the inner city of St. Paul, MN - part of the Baptist General Conference (Converge) and Alliance for Renewal Churches. A lifelong conservative Republican until the party left him in 2016. Now a political independent, he has written off the Republican party until it completes 40 years in the wilderness for its capitulation to the MAGA movement.
Channel contains political and social commentary related to issues at the intersection of culture, faith, and politics.
