Evangelical Apocalypse: The Advent of Late Fascism and Rhetorics of Freedom

This paper applies the concepts of "late fascism" and "fascist freedom" in the work of Alberto Toscano to consider the paradoxical vision of freedom animating ascendant ethno-nationalist evangelicals. This application generates an analysis of freedom rhetoric in public evangelicals like Charlie Kirk. On this basis, the paper demonstrates how thicker accounts of fascism indeed offer purchasing power for not only categorizing popular evangelical support for authoritarian political coalitions, but also generating questions that provoke and imagine resistance against authoritarianism.