Wolfe on Webbon Election Night Livestream — "Our Separation From Vance Is Not That Far"

On election night, Stephen Wolfe — author of The Case for Christian Nationalism (Canon Press, 2022) — appeared on Joel Webbon’s Right Response Ministries YouTube livestream. Wolfe stated: “Our separation from Vance is not that far.” He elaborated: “I can’t say that he listens to us or you or reads me or anything like that, but I think within the network of friends in the kind of new right network, I think he’s connected to that.”

Wolfe added: “I think the left is right, that they’re correct that there is a right-wing movement and it is influencing people, including people of power, especially younger people.”

The remarks were made the night Trump and Vance won the 2024 election. They crystallize the Christian nationalist movement’s self-understanding of its proximity to incoming executive power — not through direct lobbying, but through ideological kinship within the “new right network.” Webbon is a Texas-based pastor and the host of Right Response Ministries, a platform with 108,000 followers on X that has featured Doug Wilson, Steve Deace, and Auron MacIntyre at its annual conference. Wilson founded the denomination to which incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth belongs.

The statement is significant because Wolfe — whose 2022 book argues for a confessional Protestant state as the legitimate form of Christian government — publicly claimed proximity to the Vice President-elect through ideological and social network ties, even while conceding there is no documented direct communication. The framing is consistent with the “TheoBro” movement’s strategy of normalization: positioning radical Christian nationalist doctrine as already adjacent to mainstream Republican power.

Quote provenance: CONFIRMED. Source is Right Wing Watch / People For the American Way, published November 7, 2024, citing the election night livestream directly. Exact wording: “Our separation from Vance is not that far.”