"The president of the United States is not a king. He’s not a monarch ordained by a god."
~ Marcie Bianco
#Trump #authoritarianism #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #UnitaryExecutive #authoritarianism #fascism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025
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The #Trump admin is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new #TravelBan to the #UnitedStates that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during Trump’s first term.
#geopolitics #USpol #law #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5EF50CC3-7684-4BEC-87EC-9167B5B9764A
A.R. Moxon notes that he grew up a missionary kid, "which is sort of heavenly platinum status in christian communities." Despite his upbringing as the son of evangelical missionaries, he can no longer do church. He explains why: the "beautiful story" told by the Christian gospels, which is compelling, is belied by the behavior many churches and church folks.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #chaos #destruction #cruelty
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Jemar Tisby thinks that now is a good time to watch the documentary about white Christian nationalism and its foundational importance to Trump's presidency, "God and Country." As he notes, what this documentary warned us before Trump's election was coming has quickly come to pass, as:
"Many of the most senior officials in this regime are unrepentant white Christian nationalists."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/its-time-to-rewatch-the-god-and-country
"The billionaire scam is the cumulation of all the lies my country (which is the United States in case you didn't know) was founded upon….
Let me put the lies on a notecard for you.
Lie 1: We owe each other nothing.
Lie 2: Some people matter, the rest do not.
Lie 3: Life must be earned through profit.
Lie 4: Violence redeems."
~ A.R. Moxon
#Musk #Trump #billionaires #EconomicEiites #chaos #destruction #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #capitalism #patriarchy
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The central thesis of Katherine Stewart's new book about Christian nationalism, Money, Lies, and God, is this:
"Christian nationalism is not merely a religious movement—it is a calculated political strategy designed to justify minority rule."
Good interviews this week with Stewart about her book:
Jemar Tisby, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLn3kR0fqvE
Greg Olear, https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-money-lies-god-ketamine
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #authoritarianism #KatherineStewart
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Exclusive: Internal documents show how #DOGE planned #Trump’s #DEI purge — & who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are NOT in DEI roles & employees in offices that #protect #EqualRights, internal records show.
#USpol #law #CivilRights #Autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #ElonMusk #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/doge-fire-federal-employees-trump-dei/
VP #JDVance told #Europe leaders on Fri that their biggest #security threat was not military aggression from #Russia or #China, but their own suppression of free speech—including efforts to block #FarRight parties from joining govts.
#MSC #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #evangelism #heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #USpol #geopolitics #munich
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/world/europe/vance-europe-immigration-ukraine.html?smid=url-share
Holly Berkley Fletcher reflects on the monstrously expensive "Jesus ad" some US Christians mounted for the Super Bowl:
"In my experience and in my study of American religious history, white American Christians have long expended more energy convincing themselves they are good—and by extension, deserving of power—than they have actually striving to be good."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/jesus-ad-christianity
Conspiracy to block #USAID
#Trump admin appointees & allies of #ElonMusk wanted to use the #Treasury’s sensitive payment system to freeze #ForeignAid payments, emails show
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/trump-musk-usaid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"The first week of the Trump presidency made clear that we are indeed going to get a version of Project 2025. And the real-life plan, like the project, is steeped in Christian nationalism. The policy proposals coming out of the first week’s actions may be incoherent and many are likely to fail; but the ideological vision is coherent and sure to leave scars."
~ Katherine Stewart
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-spearheading-the-american
"On Thursday, Republican U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma introduced a House Resolution to condemn [Bishop Mariann] Budde’s sermon. … Twenty Republicans co-sponsored the resolution."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #Republicans #BishopBudde #ReligiousFreedom #ReligiousLiberty #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://wordandway.org/2025/01/25/after-viral-sermon-gop-threatens-religious-liberty/
"If I had to choose a poster boy for Jesus & John Wayne Christianity, it would be hard to find a better candidate than Pete Hegseth. Almost chapter by chapter, he exemplifies the themes of the book."
Kristin du Mez notes how Hegseth ticks all the boxes in her book: militarism, warrior rhetoric, Islamopphobia, white supremacy, Christian nationalism, patriarchy, abuse, etc.
#Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy #heterosexism #abuse
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Okay, get ready, I am going to curse . . .
HOLY MOTHER FUCKING FUCK !??!!
#Trump #Justice Department freezes ALL cases in #CivilRights division
The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the civil rights division for at least the first weeks of the Trump administration.
#law #DOJ #HumanRights #tyranny #autocracy #Totalitarianism #Dictatorship #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/22/justice-civil-rights-freeze-shutdown/
"Trump was the candidate of backlash, and will once again be the president of backlash. ...
You have watched the world shift around you, feeling more angry and alienated by the day, but now Trump will give you back what was taken from you by the tectonic motions of social change."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #backlash #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-backlash
"Not a single senator from either side of the aisle probed the most dangerous part of Hegseth’s background: his support for Christian nationalism, a set of beliefs that undermine the bedrock principles of a racially and religiously pluralistic democracy."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/senators-clear-the-way-for-hegseths
If we want to understand and prepare for (insofar as possible) what's coming now in the US, I think we'd be wise to study societies that have deliberately decided to step back in time by dismantling progressive breakthroughs in areas like human rights.
This DOES happen. It has happened throughout history and right to the present.
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #gender #race #HumanRights
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"The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.
It’s a chilling fact that the Project 2025 playbook written for Donald Trump’s administration is just a roadmap for the first 180 days."
~ Susan Rinkunas
#Trump #ElonMusk #Project2025 #HumanRights #race #gender #SexualOrientation #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #14thAmendment
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https://newrepublic.com/article/189651/gop-supreme-court-citizenship-attack
PRRI has just published a post-election study with important findings about the role religion – specifically, white Christians – have played all along in empowering Trump. PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones summarizes three key takeaways from the study:
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/breaking-three-insights-on-religion
"The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Afghanistan’s Taliban offered its congratulations to the American people for 'not handing leadership of their great country to a woman.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
But, of course, let us not forget that "the Democrats" and Biden and Harris are the REAL problem.
/s ("!)
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-11-2024
As head of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), Robert P. Jones has abundant data at his fingertips — years of empirical research — when he tells us that white Christians are "principally responsible for Trump's rise and return to power."
Salient facts about the 2024 election as he recounts them:
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #PRRI
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https://time.com/7174260/white-christianity-trump-election-essay/
"Trump and his aides believe that assholery is politically effective. They saw how millions of Americans thrilled to the permission Trump gave them to be their worst selves, not just racist and sexist but rude, loud, and belligerent."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #fascism #MadisonSquareGarden #racism #misogyny #xenophobia #WhiteChristianNationalism #immigrants #PuertoRico
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-locates-the-limit-of-assholery
"in case you are curious — White, non-evangelical (i.e., mainline) Protestants have depressingly high support of Donald Trump. Christian nationalism is not only a white evangelical problem."
~ Diana Butler Bass
And, I'd add, we need to note that 60% of white Catholics voted for Trump, with nearly that same percentage voting for Trump in 2020.
#WhiteEvangelicals #MainlineProtestants #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/the-ugly-the-bad-and-the-good
"This election is about FEMALE PERSONHOOD. ... We’ve heard Republicans talk about fetal personhood. Why don’t Christian Nationalist Republicans believe in female personhood?"
~ Andra Watkins
#Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #women #misogyny #ReproductiveRights #healthcare #abortion
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https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/this-election-is-about-female-personhood
"For Americans unfamiliar with the evangelical world, it can be hard to grasp how rapidly this right-wing movement is changing Christianity in the U.S. and turning politics, in many Christians’ minds, into a zero-sum war between the forces of evil and the armies of God."
~ Molly Olmstead
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism #ChurchandState
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