brad262run, 6 months ago

The #WashingtonPost’s sympathetic look into the roots of new #SpeakeroftheHouse who said “You know, we don’t live in a democracy” but a “biblical” republic in 2016

“is indicative of pathologies that characterize too much of mainstream political #journalism and the political discourse in general: A tendency to launder and normalize #extremism for a broader audience, an impulse to accommodate and naturalize power” https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/faith-and-family-vs-democracy by @tzimmer_history

brad262run, 6 months ago

💯 this by @willbunch
“In one of the most perilous moments of crisis the world has seen in 75 years, and with the basic notions of #freespeech under assault, most newsrooms aren’t fighting back” #democracy
“deference to authority is already bleeding into serious policy coverage” #fascism
“I’m terrified that many angry, apathetic, or ill-informed voters will wake up on Jan. 21, 2025, in a country they no longer recognize ... and didn’t see coming”
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html

brad262run, 6 months ago

#SpeakeroftheHouse Johnson Is Not Your Run-of-the-Mill #Christian #Zionist
“It would be easy to dismiss these #evangelicals and their apocalyptic fervor, but that would be a mistake, as their conceptualizations of #Judaism and #Israel are shared by many who are not so overtly eschatological, nor even #Christian”
“weaponizing of #Judaism against #Islam was long a trademark of televangelists”
“now a trademark of those white Christians” https://newrepublic.com/article/176499/mike-johnson-israel-republican-rise-christian-zionism #antisemitism #reactionary #faright

brad262run, 6 months ago

via @jackmjenkins
How a bucolic #Tennessee #suburb became a hotbed of '#Christian #Nashville-ism'

The combination of #religion, #power, #money, and #influence in and around #Nashville and its #suburbs makes it fertile ground for a #Southern #evangelical interpretation of #Christiannationalism
“now those once at the edge of the room are running the place”
“This is not primarily economic anxiety. This is status anxiety” https://religionnews.com/2023/11/08/how-a-bucolic-tennessee-suburb-became-a-hotbed-of-christian-nashville-ism/ #TeaParty #reactionary #farright #theocracy

brad262run, 6 months ago

“The prayer calls underscore the new #SpeakeroftheHouse’s alarming alignment with #Christiannationalism — the #extremist movement that holds America is not a secular #democracy but was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed to uphold a #fundamentalist morality. They also provide fresh evidence of #SpeakerJohnson’s #apocalyptic worldview” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-johnson-america-god-wrath-jim-garlow-1234879233/

#farright #reactionary #republicans #GOP