Say what you want about the Christian Nationalists, but they know what exactly, in their opinion, a nation is. Even setting aside whether they’re right, you’ve got to hand it to them: they are at least capable of articulating, with a high degree of specificity, exactly what they’re advocating. Defining terms is the first segment of a moderated debate, after all.
That’s the bare minimum one can expect from someone who’s out advocating for something in the Public Marketplace of Ideas - being able to define terms that are core to one’s argument. But then again, maybe you’ve never met Jeremy Boreing.
Boreing got his start as editor of “Truth Revolt,” which masqueraded as a watchdog publication on the lookout for “leftist media bias,” but was in fact a project of the David Horowitz Institute, an Israel Lobby think-tank, funded by the deep pockets of the Israeli donor network, receiving grants from the likes of Sheldon Adelson’s Macabee Task Force. The Horowitz Center calls itself “a School for Political Warfare" and claimed its “mission is to identify the enemies of free societies like America and Israel…” Truth Revolt was announced as a competitor to Media Matters, with Ben Shapiro (his colleague at Truth Revolt) promising that it would “destroy the credibility” and “devastate their funding bases” to make people “pay for their lies.”
In other words, Boreing got his start in media as a pro-Israel propagandist working for an organization whose other projects include “The Israel Security Project” and “Stop Jew Hate on Campus.” After being fired from Horowitz, he co-founded Daily Wire with his Horowitz colleague, Shaprio. Now, he’s no longer at Daily Wire, and apparently no longer a business partner. Reports conflict as to why. “It’s mutual” seems to be his tale, with Daily Wire closed-lipped, but some reports indicate it was the hundred million in company money he spent pursuing entertainment-related vanity projects that didn’t fare well. Now, “like a dog returns to his vomit and a fool to his folly” (Proverbs 26:11), he’s back to Israeli propaganda, this time with the Jeremy Boering Program.
Apparently with money to burn from his departure from Daily Wire and apparent sale of his interest, Boering spends a gosh-awful sum advertising his program in social media, and doesn’t skimp on production in what has the appearance of a professional operation, with high-end production and in-studio guests, like flying in relatively unknown pastors scrounged up from social media who were eager for the airtime, to help him form a coherent Biblical argument in an episode designed to attack Chrsitian Nationalists as “Nazis.” Every person he criticizes, to Jeremy Boreing, is a “Nazi.” The program looks wildly successful, with what are almost certainly paid or bot followers and mid-tier celebrity endorsements. Daily Wire has allegedly been caught multiple times manufacturing views and followers, including a Popular Information report showing Facebook manipulation and the Based Camp podcast showing wild comment-engagement disparities, so maybe it’s a page out of his old playbook. If he is manufacturing an audience, he should try harder. An episode from six days ago shows 2.1k views. By comparison, an NXR episode from four days ago shows 8 times that.
Each episode is essentially an Israeli infomercial, with content designed to advocate for the Israeli State and stir up support for the religious ethnostate in America. Each episode features mid- to low-tier Israel First influencers; on some occasions, like the aforementioned episode on Christian Nationalism, seemingly random guests who all have one thing in common: they love themselves some Israel.
In time for American Independence Day, Jeremy Boreing decided to opine on the question, “What is an American,” and did so on the heels of the Supreme Court split down the middle on birthright citizenship. The question, of course, is an important one. People like Boreing who claim to be “America First,” which he has previously argued means supporting Israel, should at least be able to define the thing that they say comes first. In fact, without being able to define America accurately and succinctly, one might be prone to suggest that it’s little more than a slogan meant to conceal an unhealthy infatuation with a foreign country.
Before we get into that tweet and his answer, it would be helpful to note that it followed an entire episode on the same topic. So, you’d think he’d be prepared to give a coherent answer.
Boering opened his show with the Supreme Court’s ruling and traced it back to what he calls the deeper question: what the founders actually risked in signing the Declaration, and what America owes them 250 years later. It’s a neat historic fact, but not really the question. He didn’t notice this. His audience surely did. His panel for that show included - as always - Israel First influencers including Eric Metaxas, a man so aggressively pro-Israel he turned the Religious Liberty Commission into a new Sanhedrin, attacking Carrie Prejean Boller for having had the audacity to ask them to provide a useable definition of antisemitism, and if she was antisemitic for not supporting Israel. Metaxas’ answers ultimately were, “that’s antisemitic for asking,” and “yes,” before attacking her relentlessly for weeks after. Metaxas loves Israel like Rabbis hate Jesus - a lot. His last book was a hagiography on Postwar Consensus martyr and saint, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
John West, VP of the Discovery Institute, defended religious pluralism from both the left and the “dissident right” simultaneously. West’s Discovery Institute is rabidly pro-Israel, and their Israel Test alleges that critics of Israel are just jealous of Jewish success and America’s and Israel’s fates are bound together forever (no, we are not kidding). In case you didn’t catch the irony, he defends America’s religious pluralism and attacks those desiring a more specific religious creed as awful saboteurs, defends Israel’s very specific religious creed and their national rejection of Jesus written into the national charter as very good, and alleges that both nations have so much in common they need each other to succeed.
Rick Green of Patriot Academy was brought in for the civic-virtue angle, arguing that self-government requires virtue and virtue requires biblical formation. He’s appeared on American Family Radio's "The Hamilton Corner" and stated that it's "hard to believe anybody would look at scripture and say God's through with the nation of Israel," invoking dispensationalist language. These are the three experts brought on to discuss “What is America” because, as explained above, his show is an Israeli infomercial.
The consensus of the three is that the fight over whether America is “a creed or a bloodline” is coming from both the progressive left and the “dissident right.” By “dissident,” they mean American conservatives who aren’t happy with the political establishment that has been managing America’s decline for the last 70 years.
On the SCOTUS ruling, Boreing walked through Thomas’s dissent in detail, specifically Thomas’s argument that the 14th Amendment rightly secured citizenship for freedmen because they had belonged here, not merely being here, had no other homeland, and fought and bled alongside every other citizen. In other words, Boreing took the brave stance of agreeing that black people should have been given Citizenship. The moral courage was next level.
He then used that point to build his “covenant, not bloodline, not creed” framework, reaching for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Chesterton’s line that America is “the only nation in the world founded on a creed,” and a set of biblical analogies; Ruth binding herself to Naomi’s people, Paul’s grafted branch, Isaiah’s language for the foreigner who joins the covenant.
But here’s the thing: despite talking for what seemed like way too long, nowhere in that framing does Boreing say the SCOTUS ruling was wrong, or that Citizenship should actually be restricted the way Thomas’s dissent would have restricted it. He closes the episode on the Trump administration’s denaturalization campaign, noting it’s on pace to file more than 20 times the historical annual average of denaturalization cases this year, without taking a position on whether that campaign is itself using the “belonging, not mere presence” logic to strip citizenship from people who already have it. He raises the sharpest edge of his own argument and declines to say where he lands on it.
Throughout the episode, Boreing doesn’t offer an actual opinion on it. After all, it’s darn hard to attack “dissidents” while formulating an opinion that’s contrary to the political establishment, and we know where the political establishment lands on birthright Citizenship.
THE TWEET
Boering asks…
What is an American?
On our country’s 250th birthday, the question is as relevant today as ever.
The "Heritage American" bros posting their 23andMe results want you to believe the answer is in your bloodline — pure Anglo-Saxon stock, they might say. Never mind that any "pure" bloodline traced back far enough hits the same tangle everyone else does — pilgrims and immigrants, free men and slaveholders.
One in two hundred men descended from Genghis Khan, that hardly makes them Mongol warriors...
This week the Supreme Court maintained that anyone born on American soil, regardless of their parents' status, is a citizen. But Justice Thomas argued citizenship was never mere geography — that freedmen earned theirs because they had "no other homeland" and "fought and bled" alongside every other citizen.
Then there's naturalized and native-born citizens in Dearborn chanting "Death to America" and holding memorials for Iran's Supreme Leader. Never mind the oath they swore to renounce "all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty" and pledged to “support and defend the Constitution…against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
So, is America a people? Is America a place? Is America an idea.
The answer, of course, is “yes.”
Notice, Boering built three arguments in his tweet, answering the question, tore all three of them apart with his own hands, and then said the answer was yes to all three questions anyway. As though he forgot what he’d just written by the time he got to the last paragraph.
THE THREE-LEGGED STOOL WITH NO LEGS
Boreing gives you three candidates for what makes a nation. Blood. Soil. Creed. He doesn’t defend any of them. Boering spends the entire tweet showing you why each one fails to contribute to nationhood.
First, he mocks the “Heritage American” people (that’s us), points out that a huge chunk of the male population worldwide carries Genghis Khan’s Y chromosome without anybody mistaking them for Mongol horsemen, and calls it a day. Clearly, no one thinks someone who is .023% Mongol makes someone a Mongol (unless we’re talking about Elizabeth Warren being Cherokee), so the point is retarded from jump, but notice what he did there. He didn’t complicate blood as a foundation for nationhood. He killed it. He rhetorically buried it. Blood doesn’t constitute nation.
Next, he speaks of the African freedmen having no other homeland besides America, having fought and bled alongside Americans, and quotes Thomas’s dissent, arguing that soil alone is NOT sufficient, that citizenship has to be earned through belonging and sacrifice, not handed out in whatever field the mother happened to be squatting in when she dropped a baby. Soil doesn’t constitute nation.
Next, he mentions Dearborn, naturalized citizens who swore an oath to renounce foreign allegiance are out in the street chanting death to the country that naturalized them and mourning a foreign ayatollah like a personal loss. Dearborn is Boring’s own example of why a creed doesn’t constitute a nation.
So walk through what actually happened in that tweet. Blood is mocked as the reason for nationhood. Soil is mocked as the reason for nationhood. Creed is mocked as the reason for nationhood. Three swings. Three examples. Three failures, by his own hand, using his own sources.
And then, Boreing says inexplicably, “The answer, of course, is yes.”
No it isn’t. The answer, by every piece of evidence he just laid on the table, is no. Not one of the three is sufficient on its own, and he never even tries to show how stacking three insufficient things on top of each other produces one sufficient thing. That’s not synthesis. That’s just failing to do arithmetic in front of an audience of a quarter million people and calling it profound.
It was, hands down, one of the absolute dumbest tweets in the history of literate humanity.
Picture the guy at trial who spends forty minutes destroying the eyewitness, shredding the alibi, and gutting the forensics, and then stands up in closing and tells the jury the answer is obviously guilty on all counts. He literally says a nation is composed of three things that don’t constitute a nation.
TELL THAT TO TEL AVIV
But Boreing didn’t just write an incoherent tweet, providing absolutely no answer to what a nation is, on top of a webcast episode that also didn’t answer what a nation is. He wrote an incoherent tweet that he would never, under any circumstances, apply to the one nation he actually cares about defending.
Ask yourself whether Jeremy Boreing would ever stand in front of an Israeli audience and tell them their nationhood has nothing to do with bloodline. Go ahead, picture it. Picture him telling a room full of Israelis that being Jewish by ancestry is an outdated, blood-and-soil relic, the same tired framework he just spent six paragraphs mocking “American heritage bros” for holding. He’d wake up dead in a Gaza ditch somewhere.
Israel’s own Basic Law states that the right of national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people. It’s not extended equally to every citizen regardless of ancestry. It’s unique to one bloodline’s national project, written into the country's constitutional law (the closest thing they have to it). Arab Israelis hold citizenship, full civil rights, the whole package, but real nationhood, the thing the state exists to express and protect, belongs to the Jewish people exclusively. Israel’s own left wing screamed about this when it passed, calling it “a demotion of Arab citizens to second-class status inside their own country.” Imagine if the United States said, “Yeah, so, Black people can have rights and stuff, but this country isn’t here to serve them, and only White people belong to it.
So somehow, an American pointing out that heritage and ancestry matter to national identity is a bigot chasing a 23andMe fantasy. But a Jewish state writing bloodline supremacy directly into its constitutional law is just, what, healthy self-determination? Ancient wisdom? A feature, not a bug?
You cannot have it both ways, and we’d like to say Boreing knows it, but chances are, he’s never had that thought, becuase he doesn’t seem like a guy who thinks a lot. Blood and soil for Israel is sacred heritage. Blood and soil for America is dangerous heritage worship that needs an op-ed to stamp it out. It’s not even really a double standard so much as a permission structure. One nation gets to define itself by ancestry and land and religion all at once, no apology necessary. The other nation gets lectured about how nationhood is actually a beautiful, complicated idea that transcends anything so crude as ancestry, right around the time its own ancestry stops being demographically convenient for certain people to talk about.
MILLIONS TO SAY NOTHING
This isn’t some guy dashing off a hot take on his lunch break. This is Jeremy Boreing, a man who has built an entire media operation, who presumably has real money behind every launch, every promoted post, every dollar spent putting this thing in front of eyeballs.
This is not a man who is capable of building something from the ground up by his own intelligence. He doesn’t have any. He’s no longer hanging onto Shapiro’s eyebrows. He is either going to burn through his nest egg quickly, flying three guys in for a conversation that only a few thousand people are listening to, paying bank for major advertising spends, and a professional production with almost no audience, or he’s got Israeli or Jewish money bankrolling him. Even they will not be investing long, with those numbers. Daily Wire took 4.7 million in seed money from Dan and Farris Wilkes, Texas fracking billionaires who are part of a “7th Day” Judaizing Hebrew Roots cult who confuse Christianity and Judaism worse than your average Dispensationalists. If Boering doesn’t have a sugar daddy to back this, he’ll be done in short order. If he does have one, somewhere there’s a media buyer looking at engagement numbers on this thing wondering if the juice was worth the squeeze.
Meanwhile, the loudest anti-Christian Nationalist voice on the Internet cannot tell you what makes a nation, even in a tweet that begins with, “What is America?” Behold, the experts.