Joel Webbon and Dale Partridge are two pastor-pundits for what they call the New Christian Right. They share the hyper-patriarchal worldview of Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, who has distanced himself from Webbon over the latter’s overt racism and antisemitism, but shares their belief that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, was a mistake that should be reversed.
In the July 13 episode of the "Christian Nationalist Weekly" podcast, Webbon made an explicit connection between nativism, racism, antisemitism, and opposition to feminism as he stoked the grievance of his white Christian American male audience. He told them that feminism—and what he called a “monstrous regiment of women”—is partly to blame for their being enslaved and exploited by the rest of the world:
You are a battery. You energize the world. You are a tax farm. You are a slave. You are living in some degree, some measure of comfort and placation, right? Sitting in front of Netflix, living in your pod, your condo or whatever it is, working, producing, being over-taxed, in order to fund the entire world…Part of it is Jewish supremacy. Part of it is feminism. Part of it is Third Worlders wanting to take and take.
This episode focused on feminism and the role of women in society. They started by complaining about the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship and the long and widely shared legal interpretation of the 14th Amendment. They derided the ruling by four “biologically female”—five “spiritually female—Supreme Court justices. They blamed the ruling on the “biological reality” that women desire piece and are ruled by empathic emotions to optimize harm reduction.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s conservatism, they surmised, was overridden by her maternal instincts to protect her adopted Haitian immigrant children, evidence that she should have stayed in her role as mother rather than accepting her nomination to the high court. Webbon declared that Barrett’s children may be U.S. citizens, but that they are “not American.”
They also suggested that that women want to be on the winning team—which is not currently white Christian men—and that courageous action from “strong Christian white men” is necessary to “get our women back.”
“If there’s one button that I can press that does the most impact, I think repealing the 19th Amendment is one of those buttons,” Patridge said, likening it to the kind of impact that would be made by deporting 100 million people. “If women stop voting, it immediately solves a vast number of problems.”
Similar to comments Doug Wilson recently made about shifting the Overton window against feminist egalitarianism by talking about repealing the 19th Amendment, Webbon said he doesn’t think repeal will happen in his lifetime. Still, he said, the conversation is not just about being provocateurs; it is appealing seriously to biblical principles and American history in ways that could lead to other victories over the idea of universal suffrage:
Do I think that the 19th Amendment will be repealed in my lifetime? No. But what I do think that this conversation does is, one, I think it glorifies God because it’s true. Two, I think practically, strategically. it serves as cover fire…
For instance, I don’t think we get rid of the 19th Amendment. What I do think that we actually in our lifetimes by the grace of God could be able to overcome is simply the notion of universal suffrage, the idea that anybody and everybody, so long as they’re 18 years old and have citizenship, gets to vote.
Webbon argued that is “not just” that people on welfare, for example, should be able to vote.
I’m hoping that this conversation pushes the ball forward into reasonable discourse where, at a happy compromise, at a happy medium, at least what can be accomplished is that there are at least some higher, strong, more robust criteria for who gets to—I would like to see an IQ test. I would love to see ‘are you a next positive taxpayer’…
Partridge said he wants the conversation to be in the air for whatever comes down the line to replace the current U.S. government, whether it’s “a new nation, a new republic, a new monarch, whatever it is.”
Partridge is writing a book about the 19th Amendment and a book about what he says are biblical views on racial and ethnic distinctions. “We know that multiculturalism is a synonym for civil war because it essentially ends up there as a result of different ethnicities and cultures fighting for governmental power and influence.” Webbon added that conservatives have been too quick to dismiss the views of founding fathers on race.