From “The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy” by Matthew Boedy
Because of the mountain metaphor, Wallnau has long been credited with resurrecting the mandate movement, especially when he took on the leadership of the movement after Wagner died in 2016. Wallnau wrote a book that year about Donald Trump, framing his candidacy as part of the movement to bring a “wrecking ball to political correctness.” He followed that up with a similar book in 2020 that claimed to use a biblical “code” to understand contemporary America. He’s traveled the globe appearing with a ubiquitous whiteboard covered in the summits of the seven mountains and sells books and videos about the seven mountains on his website. In a 2022 book, Christian nationalism expert Andrew Seidel called Wallnau the “father of American Dominionism.” In 2023 Wallnau added an eighth mountain, what he named the “mountain of me,” or self-mastery.
Wallnau spent much of 2024 headlining Trump-supportive campaign events with Charlie Kirk. This tour of swing states was not surprising. Wallnau had long supported Kirk as heir to the seven mountains movement. Wallnau said the tour in part happened because he wanted to defend Kirk, who had faced criticism because he was, in Wallnau’s words, “the face of Christian Nationalism.”