Riley Press

03/22/2026

What happens when politics starts dressing up like religion?

My book, Makeshift Messiahs: Why The American Right Keeps Creating Political Saviors, takes a hard look at how the American right has learned to turn political leaders into sacred symbols, and how that kind of devotion distorts both democracy and faith.

This is not a polite little shrug at “polarization.” It is a direct, prophetic critique of political idolatry, religious manipulation, and the dangerous habit of confusing power with holiness.

If you care about the future of the church, the health of democracy, and the difference between genuine faith and manufactured loyalty, this book is for you.

Pick up your copy on Curios and read it on any device, including Kindle.

Read the eBook version of Makeshift Messiahs: Why The American Right Keeps Creating Political Saviors by Jason Carson Wilson. In a nation weary of endless cycles of hype, disappointment, and division, one voice cuts through the noise with clarity and courage: Makeshift Messiahs: Why t...

02/20/2026

Friends — if you’ve been watching politics get baptized and accountability get treated like heresy, this night is for you.

I’m inviting you to the virtual launch of Makeshift Messiahs: Why the American Right Keeps Creating Political Saviors — a candid conversation about how the American Right keeps turning political leaders into religious icons (and what that does to democracy, faith and real-life people).

🗓️ Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 
🕖 7 p.m. ET (6 p.m. CT) 
📍 Virtual | 90 minutes 
Hosted by Rev. Jason Carson Wilson 

What we’ll get into:
• How “anointed leader” language gets manufactured — and monetized
• Why political idolatry is a spiritual problem and a civic threat
• What faith leaders, organizers and everyday folks can do next

RSVP here: https://fb.me/1ZWl1ex7zbcBBtt
Alt registration link (if Facebook acts funny): 

Bring a friend who’s tired of watching cruelty get called “conviction.” And come ready to talk back.

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02/14/2026

Paperback is here. 📚✊🏾

Makeshift Messiahs is now available in paperback — for the folks who like to highlight, annotate, and pass a book along like a holy intervention.

This one names the machinery that turns political leaders into “chosen ones,” demands devotion instead of accountability, and calls that mess “faith.” It isn’t. It’s idolatry dressed up in red, white, blue, and Bible verses — and marginalized people pay the price first.

If you’ve been meaning to read it, go grab the paperback. If you already have, leave a review and share it with somebody who needs language for what we’re watching happen in real time.

Link in bio. 🔗📖

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12/17/2025

🔥 COMING SOON FROM RILEY PRESS 🔥

MAKESHIFT MESSIAHS: Why the American Right Keeps Creating Political Saviors
By Rev. Jason Carson Wilson

From Reagan's posthumous canonization to Trump's real-time sanctification to Charlie Kirk's youth movement—this book traces a dangerous pattern: the American Right's systematic transformation of political leaders into religious figures.

When politicians become messiahs, accountability dies. When politics becomes holy war, democracy cannot survive.

This is not a book about policy. This is a book about what happens when power demands worship instead of earning trust.

What's inside:
✅ How the Reagan Legacy Project engineered a saint
✅ The "Cyrus narrative" that sanctified Trump
✅ Turning Point USA's pipeline of political soldiers
✅ The infrastructure that makes messiah-making repeatable
✅ What it costs—and how to break the pattern

11,550 words. 7 chapters. One urgent argument.

This is prophetic public theology meets investigative journalism. This is Hemingway's precision with a pastor's moral clarity.

📖 Available soon in ebook and paperback.

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