"This week’s coverage of the threat of Christian nationalism and the 2024 election began with an opinion piece I wrote about what Donald Trump said last weekend regarding immigrants not being human. This piece somehow resonated with our readers and has become the most-read piece of the week, for which I am grateful."
~ Mark Wingfield
Note: though the link below says there's an issue, it takes you to this posting.
A vote for #Trump is a vote for the increasingly extreme oppression of women. We joke and make comparisons about #AHandmaidsTale, but that shit isn't funny anymore. The people behind Trump seriously view the Atwood story as an aspirational blueprint, and if he regains power, they're going to immediately begin executing their plan to end the American republic, and impose a #ChristianTheocracy. That's really what they're planning. Please #vote.
"As public awareness of the term 'Christian nationalism' grows alongside well-executed social science research, the mobilization of those who feel threatened by such attention results in one of two responses:
'Christian nationalism doesn’t exist and is just a made up term from those who want to keep religious Americans from bringing their faith into the public sphere',"
“Christian nationalism exists, I’m a Christian nationalist, but all Christian nationalism means is I want to bring my faith into the public sphere.' …
Both responses are attempts to minimize, deflect, muddy the waters, and ultimately keep what was unseen as unseen. Each response recognizes the threat inherent to naming and clearly identifying Christian nationalism."
"We need to continue to state the definition [of Christian nationalism] clearly so folks know Christian nationalism isn’t just about bringing your faith into the public square. It’s about seeking privileged political and cultural power for one particular expression of the Christian faith at the exclusion of everyone else."
What in the wide world of #Christofascist fuckery is this??? #FoxNews is having their hosts recite #Christian prayers as part of their programming. They're supposedly sponsored #prayers, paid for by some Christian app. This is just too much. I may have to pack my shit and head up into the mountains to live out my days cut off from the world, and blissfully ignorant of whatever the Christ-folk are doing.
“There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God,” said #TommyTuberville
Ummm... That's because we live in a #secularRepublic, not a #Christofascist#theocracy, you nitwit. It's not the job of our elected leaders to "stand up for God". They're supposed to be standing up for their constituents.
Get TF out of the #Senate, and go be a priest if you want to prioritize religious mumbo jumbo over the best interests of the nation.
"A men-only, Christian-only, right-wing secret society with the aim of installing certain kinds of Christians in a future U.S. government does not want to be called Christian nationalist."
“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orban. He’s fantastic…He’s a non-controversial figure because he says, ‘This is the way it’s going to be,’ and that’s the end of it. Right? He’s the boss. No, he’s a great leader.”
“You know who he’s meeting with today down in Mar-a-Lago? Orbán of Hungary, who’s stated flatly that he doesn’t thinks democracy works, he’s looking for dictatorship.
I see a future where we defend democracy, not diminish it.”
"The right wing’s fondness for Orbán springs from his having rejected democracy and replaced it in Hungary with what he calls an 'illiberal state.' Orbán and other far-right leaders working against democracy maintain that the central principle of democracy, equality before the law, undermines society."
"It permits immigration, which, in their minds, dilutes the 'purity' of a people, and it requires that LGBTQ+ individuals and women have the same rights as heterosexual men. Such a world challenges the heteronormative patriarchal world traditionalists crave."
"Orbán’s takeover of the press, elimination of rival political parties, partisan gerrymandering, capture of the courts, and control of Hungary’s government are not just ideological, though, but also economic. Corruption and the capture of valuable factories and properties for cronies have allowed Orbán and his allies to amass fortunes."
The president of the rightwing Claremont Institute, Ryan P Williams & another senior Claremont official, Prof Scott Yenor, are closely involved with the shadowy Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), an exclusive, men-only fraternal order which aims to replace the US government with an authoritarian “aligned regime”, and is rooted in extreme Christian nationalism and religious autocracy.
The revelations emerge from documents gathered in public records requests.
One document speaks of recruiting a “brotherhood” who will “form the backbone of a renewed American regime” and who “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise”; whose “objectives” include to “collect, curate, and document a list of potential appointees and hires for a renewed American regime”.
Gotta love how conservative evangelical Christians consciously and intentionally behave in the most repellent manner then when the rest of us notice it they instantly claim martyrdom.
#TFG continues to be America's greatest security threat. Hungary's PM Orban is Putin's cheerleader & rules as a dictator. He's a proponent of what he calls an "illiberal" form of govt, & his policies are hostile to LGBTQ ppl & immigrants. TFG & Republicans' alliance with Orban shows their disdain for democracy & embrace of #ChristianNationalism.
Thursday he was on a panel with the head of the Heritage FND, before meeting TFG in FL on Fri.