TPUSA Faith has always been a mixed bag. The idea of TPUSA taking on evangelistic endeavors to outwardly promote Christianity was good on paper but has questionable execution. Initially, they had platformed hedonistic atheist James Lindsay at a faith event. For 2026, they announced their “Make Heaven Crowded” tour that featured many stops at megachurches, some being Southern Baptist, but many were egalitarian. So too were their faith speakers, including women like Riley Gaines.
At a recent event, they featured Jeremy Boreing at the Faith Forward Pastor’s Summit in Detroit. Jeremy Boreing is best known as the Founder and CEO of the Daily Wire, a job he held until early 2025, when he was ousted for financially ruining the company for his Hollywood boondoggles. Since then, he has reemerged with a podcast attacking the Right. Other speakers included Lucas Miles, Pastor of Nfluence Church; Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee; John Amanchukwu, a typical TPUSA speaker; Steve Deace, of Blaze Media; Eric Metaxas, of Salem Media; actor Kevin Sorbo; and even Megan Basham. Not exactly an impressive lineup where pastors can expect good theology, but TPUSA has always appealed to a broad swath.
Their social media accounts decided to post his “bangers” about the American conception of freedom. The problem is that he is worshipping freedom in and of itself, asserting that God grants us the “freedom” through the cross. That freedom from sin is not the same as freedom in a political sense.
The tyrants can make you do what is good as long as they bring with them the lash, but what they can’t produce in you is actual virtue. And so Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, because only having been set free from the law are we now made slaves to that righteousness.
The problem at the onset is his assertion that virtuous behavior via compulsion is not itself virtuous. If a king compels virtue in his people, as the good kings of the Old Testament did, are they not considered virtuous. By definition, Moses was authoritarian over the Israelites and imposed a stringent set of laws that inhibited their freedom but cultivated true virtue. Is not a parent virtuous for compelling the child to behave properly under threat of punishment? The absence of discipline would be unvirtuous (Proverbs 13:2).
Whether the Prophets or the philosophers, even the ancients understood that virtue had to be shepherded in the people. Lycurgus’s reforms curtailed Sparta’s avarice through the restriction of money to iron coins. Other societies, like the Romans or Athenians, had sundry laws that restricted the freedom to flaunt one’s wealth as a means of cultivating virtue. The restriction of outward greed is actually good for society.
Boreing does not understand this because he gets his equation backwards.
But here’s the problem. In a fallen world, freedom does not guarantee virtue, and yet freedom is the prerequisite for virtue. No freedom from law, no freedom from compulsion, that means no freedom from sin and no freedom from death. Or, as we say it in a more secular and governmental system, coercion can restrain what is bad, but it cannot produce what is good.
The idea that Freedom precedes Virtue is untrue and contrary to the beliefs of the Founding Fathers. For years, every conservative knew how to quote John Adams who said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” President Adams presumes that the freedoms of the US Constitution are rooted in the virtue of the people. It is not the freedoms of the Constitution that produce the virtue.
President George Washington, in his Farewell Address said,
Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.
Like Adams, he rejects the notion that the freedom can exist without virtue, going so far to say, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
Jeremy Boreing’s conception of freedom is not a biblical conception or even a classical conception, but a libertarian conception of freedom. In a second clip, this becomes indubitably clear.
We do have to endure the presence of behaviors that we do not like as a cost of the freedom that produces the virtue that we aspire to. That’s why our freedom has to start at the cross in Christ. God had to first forgive us before he made us free. He had to take away the penalty of that downside risk so that we would have the opportunity to experience his righteousness.
If he says that “our freedom has to start at the cross,” then he is concluding that freedom is rooted in morality, yet this contradicts his conception of freedom. Instead, he argues that enduring detestable and degenerate behaviors is the cost that produces freedom. This is no different than David French asserting that “Drag Queen Story Hour is the blessings of liberty.” Jeremy Boreing once publicly celebrated a gay marriage, so the French comparison is even more apt. The tolerance of homosexuality has not led to a more virtuous society but increased immorality, including that of drag shows for kids and homosexual adoption. This quasi-absolutist notion of freedom does not produce virtue; it degrades virtue.
And again, this is what our founders modeled our civil conception of freedom on. And it’s that freedom, that conception of freedom that made America what it became and so rapidly. We need to tell the young people in our charge that vice is not the guaranteed outcome of freedom. It’s a possible outcome of freedom. But so too is virtue. The difference isn’t freedom itself. The difference is us.
Where the American Founders conceived virtue and morality as preceding freedom, Jeremy Boreing argues that virtue and vice are the outcomes of freedom. If freedom can produce either outcome, then freedom is not good in and of itself, but can only be good if it cultivates virtue. However, the Founders, and all of Western Tradition, asserted that virtue must precede freedom for the political project to succeed, that freedom only works because there is underlying virtue.
Jeremy Boreing is injecting libertarian notions of freedom into America’s founding. These ideas are modern, not classical. The fatal flaw in libertarianism is that it can only work with a high-IQ, homogeneous society. Such a group of people could live in a free society with limited government, but the virtue that precedes freedom is what would allow it to work.
Boreing, being a proposition nation proponent, attempts to claim that “the difference is us” while also believing that anyone can become an American if they check a box ascribing to an undefined creed.
Whether it is Jeremy Boreing, Joel Berry, or e-girls like Insurrection Barbie, these people will claim the Founders but would loathe living under the system they actually created. They are not conservatives for the Founding Fathers or the original intent of the US Constitution as written in 1787. They would chastise the Founding Fathers as “woke right” for writing at length that America is a heritage nation, not a proposition nation. As Christ said, “For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,” but the so-called Classical Liberals would despise the Founders as they actually were and the ideas they actually professed.
Shame on TPUSA Faith for promoting Jeremy Boreing’s false conception of freedom that contradicts the Founding Fathers of America while claiming otherwise.
