"What happens when 80% of believers infuse an authoritarian movement with religious obligation? And when their political participation is enough to saddle a secular nation with the results?

Jesus Ad Christianity wants to have Jesus and ignore him, too. It wants to hide rotten fruit in beautiful Gospel boxes."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty
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Political scientist Brooklyn Walker notes that scholarly studies including the General Social Survey find the following:

"Christian nationalism is strongly and positively correlated with both racial resentment and authoritarianism."

The three go predictably go together as a kind of unholy trinity, and that trinity is deeply enmeshed in Trump.

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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https://religioninpublic.blog/2025/02/12/is-christian-nationalism-just-a-dressed-up-authoritarianism/

Looking at the rise to authoritarianism in the US, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way note that "democracy is in greater peril today than at any time in modern U.S. history." And:

"U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration, in the sense that it will cease to meet standard criteria for liberal democracy: full adult suffrage, free and fair elections, and broad protection of civil liberties."

#Trump #authoritarianism #democracy
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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump

"Authoritarianism, at its core, is about restricting or eliminating the rights of the many and giving vast new liberties to the very few."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #authoritarianism #democracy
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/out-of-chaos-and-corruption-a-revelation