When Newsmax’s Tom Basile declared that “faith is our only superpower” on America Right Now, he wasn’t offering a sermon so much as a call to arms for a country being hollowed out by secular elites and institutional cowardice. Basile has made faith a regular through-line on his program, arguing that belief in God and the moral clarity it brings is the one resource the left cannot manufacture or regulate away.
Basile’s message is rooted in a lifetime of public service and conservative activism; he’s not some ivory-tower pundit but a practitioner who’s spent years in politics and media, and who sees firsthand how a loss of faith translates into a loss of civic muscle. When anchors and opinion-makers ignore the soul of the nation, the result is policy without conscience and freedom without foundation.
This isn’t nostalgia — it’s strategy. Basile and other patriotic voices now traveling the country make the plain case that a revival of religious conviction will restore families, stabilize communities, and inoculate Americans against the totalizing tendencies of big government. That link between Church and Republic is exactly why Basile has aligned himself with faith organizations and made religious renewal a centerpiece of his public work.
The mainstream media would have you believe faith is a private hobby, not the public ballast of a free people, but Basile pushes back by putting pastors, bishops, and everyday believers on the air to tell uncomfortable truths. His Faith in America segments don’t pander to the cultural elite; they amplify the quiet courage of ordinary Americans who are rebuilding civic life from the pew up.
Make no mistake: there is a political dimension to this revival, and conservatives should stop pretending otherwise. When leaders like Bishop Strickland and other faith-forward figures appear alongside Basile on Newsmax to call for a return to truth, that’s not church-state blurring — it’s a necessary corrective to a public square that has been stripped of moral anchors. Americans who love liberty should welcome a moral renewal that strengthens, rather than weakens, our national character.
Patriots don’t cower when institutions fail; they rebuild. Basile’s trajectory from GOP operative to a prominent faith voice on national television is proof that conservatives can and must lead cultural restoration, not merely complain about cultural decline. If you want a robust, freedom-loving America, faith-led renewal is the practical first step — and the conservative movement should treat it as mission critical.
We are a people forged by conviction, and no piece of legislation or market trick can replace what faith gives us: courage, charity, and a sense of duty to something higher than self. Tom Basile’s declaration that faith is our only superpower is a simple, unromantic reminder to roll up our sleeves, go to church, raise our children with conviction, and fight for a nation worthy of their inheritance. That’s the conservative project — bold, moral, and unapologetically American.
