Following the Republican Party's losses in the 2026 midterm elections, the GOP has been searching for a post-Trump identity — but far-right Christian nationalists are already positioning themselves to shape the party's future. Among the movement's key figures is Joel Webbon, who has outlined a six-year strategy to bring his vision to fruition in an interview with The Atlantic.

Webbon believes that the GOP's midterm defeat, a potential Democratic victory in 2028, and growing dissatisfaction among Republican and MAGA voters with Democratic leadership could create the perfect opening for a Christian nationalist candidate to capture the White House in 2032. Far from viewing the midterms as a setback, Webbon describes the GOP's loss as a favorable development and the ideal setup for executing his strategy. The remainder of his plan is expected to be promoted at a three-day conference outside Dallas this week, titled "Christ Is King: America After Trump" — making the gathering the next place where the strategy's remaining steps will come into public view.

Webbon, a senior pastor and podcaster with followers numbering in the hundreds of thousands, believes he has built a strong enough foundation to expand his audience. He argues that the public may be ready for a Christian nationalist takeover, criticizing both political parties with antisemitic and homophobic rhetoric and relying on stereotypes about Jewish and LGBTQ+ people to contend that neither party upholds his version of traditional Christian values.

The six-year plan is broken down into three phases. In the first phase, following the GOP's loss, Webbon wants 31-year-old James Fishback — who previously ran an unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial primary campaign — to run for president in 2028. The goal is not for Fishback to win. Instead, the candidacy is part of a larger strategy to return him to the public eye and grow the Christian nationalists' support. Whether Fishback actually launches that campaign is the first visible marker of whether the plan's opening phase is put into action.

Because of the GOP's obvious midterm loss, Webbon expects the Democrats to remain in power until at least 2032, which he identifies as the third phase of his plan. He believes voters will grow frustrated with Democratic leadership, clearing the way for him, far-right commentator Nick Fuentes, or Fishback to announce a bid for the presidency.

"It'll be Nick, or Nick may not want to do it. It'll be James, you know, or it'll be me, or it'll be someone else. Maybe I'm a faith adviser, something like that. But that's the plan, and it's not even, like, a plan that we wrote. It's the obvious thing that's happening," Webbon asserted, expressing his belief that a Christian nationalist political movement will emerge naturally as the successor to Trump's MAGA movement.

As for what a government led by Christian nationalists would look like, Webbon was explicit: they seek to end the 19th Amendment, the constitutional provision guaranteeing women's suffrage, as a starting point. The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, has protected women's right to vote for more than a century, and repealing it would require the same demanding process as any constitutional amendment: approval by two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and ratification by 38 of the 50 states. "Women's suffrage is a picture of a woman punching herself in the face," Webbon said. He predicted that Democrats will make conditions so bad by 2032 that "a lot of women will be like, 'Yeah, we want to survive, we want to be safe, we want to be secure, we want to prosper, and we're willing to forfeit control.'"

Under Webbon's vision, his desired administration would also operate a strict deportation task force, targeting those he says cannot define themselves as "heritage Americans" — a category that, by his definition, includes anyone who does not identify with his type of Christianity.