Ah yes, the usual desire to label someone.
Especially when a perfectly acceptable and agreed-upon label, "The Religious Right" is already available.
But Sullivan wants to use the "Christianist" label because that reflects the bugbear "Islamist" label that people use to describe Islamic imperialists.
In spite of his mealy-mouthed denials, Sullivan is obviously trying to equate Islamic imperialism and Christian political activism. He should be ashamed of himself. But I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon.
"Ah yes, the usual desire to label someone."
Rather than forcing us to take on a new moniker, perhaps his kind should go by the new label, "Religious Retard". It's not that his religious faith is completely worthless, it is just that his religion is not growing at a healthy rate.
Egomaniacs always want to coin new terms for the popular lexicon.