#nationalists — Public Fediverse posts

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.

I think this is really good.

"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.

Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.

Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.

Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."

https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended

I think this is really good.

"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.

Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.

Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.

Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."

https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended

I think this is really good.

"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.

Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.

Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.

Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."

https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended

I think this is really good.

"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.

Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.

Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.

Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."

https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended

I think this is really good.

"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.

Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.

Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.

Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."

https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended

"Discourse about #antisemitism in #America has become a hopeless, meaningless mess. Particularly in the last few years, pro-#Israel and #rightwing organizations and politicians have insisted that anti-#Zionism is a form of antisemitism, minimized the threat on the right while exaggerating the threat on the #left, used the charge of antisemitism to deflect legitimate criticism of #Israeli actions, and weaponized #Jewish fears in their #kulturkampf against higher education, the press, and #progressive activists of all kinds.

It is thus understandable that #progressives’ reflexive response to accusations of antisemitism is to dismiss them. But to do so would be a mistake. Antisemitism does exist on the left; ask any Jewish person active in progressive spaces. Moreover, the failure to condemn and root out real antisemitism enables #nationalists, #racists, and #fascists to defame and delegitimize progressive movements. It is also a betrayal of progressive values."

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/progressive-jews-are-deeply-distressed

Self-defeating landlords - a tale as old as landlords

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1872105/self-defeating-landlords-a-tale-as-old-as-landlords

...I'm smiling because you and all #nationalists always rant and rave about the #fundamentalists and act as though you're so different. And yet you're just two sides of the same coin.

Marc-Uwe Kling, QualityLand (QualityLand, #1)

#quote #quotes

#earth #Politics #USPol #Society #USA #Politicians #War #Ecology #Ecosystem #ClimateChange #Russia #UkraineWar #Gaza #Nationalism #Nazi #Nazis #Greenland #Maga #Extremism #Trump #DonaldTrump #Putin #Pollution #farright #Nationalists #Brexit #Immigration #Greenland #Humanity
61 years on this earth and I’ve never seen the planet in such a bloody mess… All due to people demonising immigrants while aspiring to “make their country great again.”
The earth was in safer hands before humanity arrived…

@grrlscientist

If you replace MAGA with AFD, it also applies to Germany.

#Nationalists #Fascists #Nazis #ReligiousFanatics #Racists

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

... #nationalists, many of whom are now close to power.

Subscribers can watch the full interview as part of our new video series The Insider.

00:00 - #TheEconomist interviews #SteveBannon
00:52 - What kind of #America does #Bannon want to build?
02:00 - Bannon on seizing America’s institutions
06:15 - Bannon says #Trump will have a #thirdterm
10:41 - Bannon’s role in #populist #nationalist movements in #Europe

https://youtu.be/ijf7K_08YWk

Watch the full interview: https://econ.st/49jp0wr

2/2

#BookReview: “Separation of #Church and #Hate”
by Harry Foxwell

#BOOK BY JOHN FUGELSANG

That a book defending #Christianity and the #Bible against #fundamentalists and #religious #nationalists could be relevant to #humanists might seem contradictory. However, the author’s approach—pairing #extremists’ stated beliefs with #Christ’s actual words—makes for informative and even entertaining reading.

https://thehumanist.com/arts_entertainment/books/book-review-separation-of-church-and-hate

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/all-the-evidence-from-labour-conference-points-in-one-direction-more-cuts-to-disability-benefits/. Same old, same old from "Labour", @ChrisMayLA6, @HarriettMB. The #Tories hate #disabled people, so do #ReformUK, & so do #Labour. If Sir Ed Davey's remarks about #PIP claimants are taken into account, the #LibDems have no love for us, either. It's a forced choice, then, if we live in #England: we HAVE to vote for @thegreenparty at the next General Election. Those who live in #Scotland & #Wales will need to look at what the #Nationalists are offering.

And while #Trump has surrounded himself with people who have said #racist things & maintained ties to #white & #Christian #nationalists, the number of #Democrats & esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of #CharlieKirk demonstrates that espousing open & explicit #bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the #CivilRights era.

@ErikJonker
And #RightWing #Nationalists wonder why poor migrants have to sneak into the country illegally. 🤦‍♂️ #100KDollarVisas #TooStupidToBePresident #immigration

To all #MAGA #FarRight #Christian #Nationalists, the message of the real #left is this: We will take your civil culture war, & turn it into our #socialist #revolution. In the end, this is all just #ClassWar.

@northernlights This platform seems to be a haven for #Canadian #nationalists. #Canada is one of the top historic emitters: that is a fact. In a general way, Canada is heating up the atmosphere which does not help #forests.

Thursday, June 19, 2025

4 months after striking Chornobyl, Russia warns Israeli attacks on Iran risk nuclear catastrophe — As Trump stays silent, US Embassy makes late denunciation of Russia’s attack on Kyiv — Ukraine kills collaborator tied to POW torture in occupied Berdiansk — Russia turns sound into weapon … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-19-2025/

Thursday, June 19, 2025

4 months after striking Chornobyl, Russia warns Israeli attacks on Iran risk nuclear catastrophe — As Trump stays silent, US Embassy makes late denunciation of Russia’s attack on Kyiv — Ukraine kills collaborator tied to POW torture in occupied Berdiansk — Russia turns sound into weapon … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-19-2025/

Thursday, June 19, 2025

4 months after striking Chornobyl, Russia warns Israeli attacks on Iran risk nuclear catastrophe — As Trump stays silent, US Embassy makes late denunciation of Russia’s attack on Kyiv — Ukraine kills collaborator tied to POW torture in occupied Berdiansk — Russia turns sound into weapon … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-19-2025/

Thursday, June 19, 2025

4 months after striking Chornobyl, Russia warns Israeli attacks on Iran risk nuclear catastrophe — As Trump stays silent, US Embassy makes late denunciation of Russia’s attack on Kyiv — Ukraine kills collaborator tied to POW torture in occupied Berdiansk — Russia turns sound into weapon … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-19-2025/

Thursday, June 19, 2025

4 months after striking Chornobyl, Russia warns Israeli attacks on Iran risk nuclear catastrophe — As Trump stays silent, US Embassy makes late denunciation of Russia’s attack on Kyiv — Ukraine kills collaborator tied to POW torture in occupied Berdiansk — Russia turns sound into weapon … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-19-2025/

The lessons given by many #Holocaust museums kinda ring hollow once you realize that many of them, including mine, support #Israel. How are #colonial #police officers who were complicit in the brutal repression of #Arab #nationalists in any way related to the Holocaust?

Some of you haven't been #bullied enough for being #nationalists

Just so we know, a #liberal or #Neoliberal is much preferred over #fascists or #nationalists, because the former - though brutal and oppressive - are usually incompetently in every other aspect of leadership. This is the same for #Trump and his government, as it is for #Putin.

Another assassination of a #Russia official went off without a hitch, even if they were warned beforehand.

"YOU INCOMPETENT CLOWNS": The #FSB Puts Regime of #Putin at Risk. Generals...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sYhPJQYveOM&

The #NuclearFamily ("#individualism")

killed

the #TraditionalFamily (#collectivism).

I'm sick and tired
of pretending otherwise.

#consetvatives , #liberals, #nationalists, #fascists, you screwed THE ENTIRE WORLD and don't even know it's your fault.

Bury your heads in the sand no more, or at the very least stop pretending liberals are #leftwing. Here's a hint: #liberalism is RIGHT FROM #CENTER.

The #NuclearFamily ("#individualism")

killed

the #TraditionalFamily (#collectivism).

I'm sick and tired
of pretending otherwise.

#consetvatives , #liberals, #nationalists, #fascists, you screwed THE ENTIRE WORLD and don't even know it's your fault.

Bury your heads in the sand no more, or at the very least stop pretending liberals are #leftwing. Here's a hint: #liberalism is RIGHT FROM #CENTER.

The #NuclearFamily ("#individualism")

killed

the #TraditionalFamily (#collectivism).

I'm sick and tired
of pretending otherwise.

#consetvatives , #liberals, #nationalists, #fascists, you screwed THE ENTIRE WORLD and don't even know it's your fault.

Bury your heads in the sand no more, or at the very least stop pretending liberals are #leftwing. Here's a hint: #liberalism is RIGHT FROM #CENTER.

The #NuclearFamily ("#individualism")

killed

the #TraditionalFamily (#collectivism).

I'm sick and tired
of pretending otherwise.

#consetvatives , #liberals, #nationalists, #fascists, you screwed THE ENTIRE WORLD and don't even know it's your fault.

Bury your heads in the sand no more, or at the very least stop pretending liberals are #leftwing. Here's a hint: #liberalism is RIGHT FROM #CENTER.

The #NuclearFamily ("#individualism")

killed

the #TraditionalFamily (#collectivism).

I'm sick and tired
of pretending otherwise.

#consetvatives , #liberals, #nationalists, #fascists, you screwed THE ENTIRE WORLD and don't even know it's your fault.

Bury your heads in the sand no more, or at the very least stop pretending liberals are #leftwing. Here's a hint: #liberalism is RIGHT FROM #CENTER.

#Ukrainian #nationalists ask #UncleSam for #money for #espionage and #sabotage, #Soviet ukrainian #cartoon, 1950s

#comic #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #fascism #rightwing #farright #usa #america #ausgov #politas

‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy

There is a “real and very, very present” threat to the US from a shadowy collection of rightwing leaders,
a new book on the movement behind Donald Trump warns,
with the aim being
“an end to pluralistic democracy”.

#Katherine #Stewart, a journalist who specializes in the religious right, spent years researching the money and influence that has aided and encouraged tens of millions of Americans in their worship at the throne of Trump.

The result is
"Money, Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy",
which sees Stewart explore the “antidemocratic movement”
– an unholy mix of Christian nationalists, billionaire oligarchs and conservative ideologues who have seized control of the Republican party,
and aim to fundamentally change the US.

“#Money is a huge part of the story,
meaning that huge concentrations of wealth have destabilized the political system.

Second, #lies, or conscious disinformation, is a huge feature of this movement.

And third #God, because the most important ideological framework for the largest part of this movement is Christian nationalism,” Stewart said.

In the book, Stewart details how Republicans have been held hostage by the antidemocratic movement,
something that “came together long before Donald Trump descended on a golden escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president”.

Stewart – whose previous two books,
"The Good News Club" and
"The Power Worshippers",
focused on the impact of the Christian right and religious nationalism in the US
– spent years traveling to an array of rightwing conferences,
from Christian nationalist events to
”Make America great again” fests and sober thinktank talks,
and found many similarities.

The eclectic groups may not seem to have much in common, but their aim is the same:
bringing an end to democracy in the US as we know it.

Their method of achieving that is the same too.
“The overwhelming message, from speaker after speaker, was that ‘Trump needs to be allowed to enact his agenda, and you need to get behind him,’” Stewart said.

Though there is an intriguing collection of individuals and organizations in the movement,
Stewart categorizes its members as #Christian #nationalists
– who believe, wrongly, that America was founded as a Christian nation and must be governed as such
– and the #super-#rich, who are seeking to secure their own wealth at the expense of others.

“Much of the energy of the movement, too, comes from below,
from the anger and resentment that characterizes life among those who perceive, more or less accurately, that they are falling behind,” Stewart writes.

“The best label I can find for the phenomenon
– and I do not pretend it is a fully satisfactory label
– is ‘#reactionary #nihilism’.
It is reactionary in the sense that it expresses itself as mortal opposition to a perceived catastrophic change in the political order;
it is nihilistic because its deepest premise is that the actual world is devoid of value,
impervious to reason, and governable only through brutal acts of will.

It stands for a kind of unraveling of the American political mind
– a madness that now afflicts one side of nearly every political debate.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/katherine-stewart-money-lies-god-book-christian-nationlism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#ChristianNationalists Are BAFFLED By This Question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Pl2E_VbzY

Many #Trumpsupporters claim to be #Christian #Nationalists, but a lot of them have no idea how bad things are about to get.

#theocracy #dominionism #separationofchurchandstate #taliban #cults #secular

We're about to see how #republicans will enforce the same kind of policies that some #nationalists and #socialists want. That's right, it's #protectionism time - by way of #tariffs.

#FreeTrade my ass.

#Nationalists are #brainwashed #cult members, rabidly defending/justifying depraved #evils. While being too ignorant to realize the cult leaders they admire/support would have no problems throwing them under the bus or just killing them(depending on where you live), if it benefits cult leader & his/her minions & their backpocket bribing money stuffers.

#DestroyNationalism #colonialism #imperialism #BeyondBorders #QuitYourCult #GetDeprogrammed #DefendCitizensNotFlags #FuckNationalism #CultsAreToxic

This isn’t about J.D. #Vance hanging out with pro-Russian fascist podcasters who gleefully platform Holocaust deniers,
-- although that’s definitely a thing.

And it’s not specifically about the libertarian/authoritarian #Peter #Thiel techbro creepers who basically created J.D. in a lab, without whom he’d literally be nothing.
-- But both of those things are related to these things.

This is about the #Christian #nationalists who find themselves in J.D. Vance’s orbit, and he in theirs
— people who are literally prayer-gasming themselves right now at the idea of having one of their own freaks a heartbeat away from the presidency.

To start off with, did y’all hear about the town hall Vance just did with #Lance #Wallnau, one of the most #dangerous “Seven Mountains” Christian Nationalist #Dominionists in the country?

Lance Wallnau is perhaps the foremost figure in what’s called the #New #Apostolic #Reformation movement, which teaches that Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven “mountains” of American life
— family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.

There is no room for democracy in this movement,
it’s authoritarian,
and it craves a dictator.

Wallnau is fucking bonkers.
His movement is fucking bonkers.

Wallnau believes people on the left are literal #demons,
that Kamala Harris has a “Jezebel Spirit,” and so much more.

Oh, and of course, Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation believe Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus,
a pagan emperor being used by God to bring forth his kingdom on earth.

Ayup. So it’s not surprising that Wallnau and his movement are deeply entwined with the “Stop the Steal” movement,
which did what it did on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.

Wallnau has been doing something called the #Courage #Tour.

And sweet, kind, caring, moderate J.D. Vance was a special guest on that Courage Tour last weekend in Pennsylvania,
though he was careful not to appear with Wallnau, and did his best to make the event seem as innocuous as possible.

As it happens, Stephanie McCrummen published an article in The Atlantic this week called
“The Christian Radicals Are Coming,”
which is all about the tour’s stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Half Pentecostal tent revival, half voter registration and mobilization event, the thousands who attended were treated to several days of the kind of radicalizing, violent rhetoric you usually hear in documentaries about, well, radicalized movements that turn violent.

Wallnau told congregants about a scene from Gladiator featuring its main character Maximus, and asked the crowd if they were ready to be “activated in your Maximus anointing.”

He told attendees he suspected they were “nobodies on earth who are somebodies in the spirit.” That’ll make ‘em feel special.

Another speaker, a weirdo author named #Bill #Federer, who seems to think he’s a historian, told them they were “important people,” and that “God has chosen you” for this moment in history.

He cited a quote from Peter Thiel
— hi, gay libertarian techbro Peter Thiel!
— which said that “The political slogan of the antichrist is ‘peace and safety.’ ”

(Which is funny because isn’t that what all Trump’s Nazi scaremongering about being women’s protector is?)

Federer, jumping the shark completely, told the crowd that
“Someday, you’re going to be dead” and in Heaven
— specifically in Moses’s living room,
some kind of celestial onesie party, I guess
— and Moses will tell stories of all the hot shit he did and David will talk about that one time he fucked up Goliath,

and then everybody will look at the MAGA Christians and ask them what they did.
https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/lets-meet-jd-vances-creepy-christian

This isn’t about J.D. #Vance hanging out with pro-Russian fascist podcasters who gleefully platform Holocaust deniers,
-- although that’s definitely a thing.

And it’s not specifically about the libertarian/authoritarian #Peter #Thiel techbro creepers who basically created J.D. in a lab, without whom he’d literally be nothing.
-- But both of those things are related to these things.

This is about the #Christian #nationalists who find themselves in J.D. Vance’s orbit, and he in theirs
— people who are literally prayer-gasming themselves right now at the idea of having one of their own freaks a heartbeat away from the presidency.

To start off with, did y’all hear about the town hall Vance just did with #Lance #Wallnau, one of the most #dangerous “Seven Mountains” Christian Nationalist #Dominionists in the country?

Lance Wallnau is perhaps the foremost figure in what’s called the #New #Apostolic #Reformation movement, which teaches that Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven “mountains” of American life
— family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.

There is no room for democracy in this movement,
it’s authoritarian,
and it craves a dictator.

Wallnau is fucking bonkers.
His movement is fucking bonkers.

Wallnau believes people on the left are literal #demons,
that Kamala Harris has a “Jezebel Spirit,” and so much more.

Oh, and of course, Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation believe Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus,
a pagan emperor being used by God to bring forth his kingdom on earth.

Ayup. So it’s not surprising that Wallnau and his movement are deeply entwined with the “Stop the Steal” movement,
which did what it did on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.

Wallnau has been doing something called the #Courage #Tour.

And sweet, kind, caring, moderate J.D. Vance was a special guest on that Courage Tour last weekend in Pennsylvania,
though he was careful not to appear with Wallnau, and did his best to make the event seem as innocuous as possible.

As it happens, Stephanie McCrummen published an article in The Atlantic this week called
“The Christian Radicals Are Coming,”
which is all about the tour’s stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Half Pentecostal tent revival, half voter registration and mobilization event, the thousands who attended were treated to several days of the kind of radicalizing, violent rhetoric you usually hear in documentaries about, well, radicalized movements that turn violent.

Wallnau told congregants about a scene from Gladiator featuring its main character Maximus, and asked the crowd if they were ready to be “activated in your Maximus anointing.”

He told attendees he suspected they were “nobodies on earth who are somebodies in the spirit.” That’ll make ‘em feel special.

Another speaker, a weirdo author named #Bill #Federer, who seems to think he’s a historian, told them they were “important people,” and that “God has chosen you” for this moment in history.

He cited a quote from Peter Thiel
— hi, gay libertarian techbro Peter Thiel!
— which said that “The political slogan of the antichrist is ‘peace and safety.’ ”

(Which is funny because isn’t that what all Trump’s Nazi scaremongering about being women’s protector is?)

Federer, jumping the shark completely, told the crowd that
“Someday, you’re going to be dead” and in Heaven
— specifically in Moses’s living room,
some kind of celestial onesie party, I guess
— and Moses will tell stories of all the hot shit he did and David will talk about that one time he fucked up Goliath,

and then everybody will look at the MAGA Christians and ask them what they did.
https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/lets-meet-jd-vances-creepy-christian

This isn’t about J.D. #Vance hanging out with pro-Russian fascist podcasters who gleefully platform Holocaust deniers,
-- although that’s definitely a thing.

And it’s not specifically about the libertarian/authoritarian #Peter #Thiel techbro creepers who basically created J.D. in a lab, without whom he’d literally be nothing.
-- But both of those things are related to these things.

This is about the #Christian #nationalists who find themselves in J.D. Vance’s orbit, and he in theirs
— people who are literally prayer-gasming themselves right now at the idea of having one of their own freaks a heartbeat away from the presidency.

To start off with, did y’all hear about the town hall Vance just did with #Lance #Wallnau, one of the most #dangerous “Seven Mountains” Christian Nationalist #Dominionists in the country?

Lance Wallnau is perhaps the foremost figure in what’s called the #New #Apostolic #Reformation movement, which teaches that Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven “mountains” of American life
— family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.

There is no room for democracy in this movement,
it’s authoritarian,
and it craves a dictator.

Wallnau is fucking bonkers.
His movement is fucking bonkers.

Wallnau believes people on the left are literal #demons,
that Kamala Harris has a “Jezebel Spirit,” and so much more.

Oh, and of course, Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation believe Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus,
a pagan emperor being used by God to bring forth his kingdom on earth.

Ayup. So it’s not surprising that Wallnau and his movement are deeply entwined with the “Stop the Steal” movement,
which did what it did on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.

Wallnau has been doing something called the #Courage #Tour.

And sweet, kind, caring, moderate J.D. Vance was a special guest on that Courage Tour last weekend in Pennsylvania,
though he was careful not to appear with Wallnau, and did his best to make the event seem as innocuous as possible.

As it happens, Stephanie McCrummen published an article in The Atlantic this week called
“The Christian Radicals Are Coming,”
which is all about the tour’s stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Half Pentecostal tent revival, half voter registration and mobilization event, the thousands who attended were treated to several days of the kind of radicalizing, violent rhetoric you usually hear in documentaries about, well, radicalized movements that turn violent.

Wallnau told congregants about a scene from Gladiator featuring its main character Maximus, and asked the crowd if they were ready to be “activated in your Maximus anointing.”

He told attendees he suspected they were “nobodies on earth who are somebodies in the spirit.” That’ll make ‘em feel special.

Another speaker, a weirdo author named #Bill #Federer, who seems to think he’s a historian, told them they were “important people,” and that “God has chosen you” for this moment in history.

He cited a quote from Peter Thiel
— hi, gay libertarian techbro Peter Thiel!
— which said that “The political slogan of the antichrist is ‘peace and safety.’ ”

(Which is funny because isn’t that what all Trump’s Nazi scaremongering about being women’s protector is?)

Federer, jumping the shark completely, told the crowd that
“Someday, you’re going to be dead” and in Heaven
— specifically in Moses’s living room,
some kind of celestial onesie party, I guess
— and Moses will tell stories of all the hot shit he did and David will talk about that one time he fucked up Goliath,

and then everybody will look at the MAGA Christians and ask them what they did.
https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/lets-meet-jd-vances-creepy-christian

This isn’t about J.D. #Vance hanging out with pro-Russian fascist podcasters who gleefully platform Holocaust deniers,
-- although that’s definitely a thing.

And it’s not specifically about the libertarian/authoritarian #Peter #Thiel techbro creepers who basically created J.D. in a lab, without whom he’d literally be nothing.
-- But both of those things are related to these things.

This is about the #Christian #nationalists who find themselves in J.D. Vance’s orbit, and he in theirs
— people who are literally prayer-gasming themselves right now at the idea of having one of their own freaks a heartbeat away from the presidency.

To start off with, did y’all hear about the town hall Vance just did with #Lance #Wallnau, one of the most #dangerous “Seven Mountains” Christian Nationalist #Dominionists in the country?

Lance Wallnau is perhaps the foremost figure in what’s called the #New #Apostolic #Reformation movement, which teaches that Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven “mountains” of American life
— family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.

There is no room for democracy in this movement,
it’s authoritarian,
and it craves a dictator.

Wallnau is fucking bonkers.
His movement is fucking bonkers.

Wallnau believes people on the left are literal #demons,
that Kamala Harris has a “Jezebel Spirit,” and so much more.

Oh, and of course, Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation believe Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus,
a pagan emperor being used by God to bring forth his kingdom on earth.

Ayup. So it’s not surprising that Wallnau and his movement are deeply entwined with the “Stop the Steal” movement,
which did what it did on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.

Wallnau has been doing something called the #Courage #Tour.

And sweet, kind, caring, moderate J.D. Vance was a special guest on that Courage Tour last weekend in Pennsylvania,
though he was careful not to appear with Wallnau, and did his best to make the event seem as innocuous as possible.

As it happens, Stephanie McCrummen published an article in The Atlantic this week called
“The Christian Radicals Are Coming,”
which is all about the tour’s stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Half Pentecostal tent revival, half voter registration and mobilization event, the thousands who attended were treated to several days of the kind of radicalizing, violent rhetoric you usually hear in documentaries about, well, radicalized movements that turn violent.

Wallnau told congregants about a scene from Gladiator featuring its main character Maximus, and asked the crowd if they were ready to be “activated in your Maximus anointing.”

He told attendees he suspected they were “nobodies on earth who are somebodies in the spirit.” That’ll make ‘em feel special.

Another speaker, a weirdo author named #Bill #Federer, who seems to think he’s a historian, told them they were “important people,” and that “God has chosen you” for this moment in history.

He cited a quote from Peter Thiel
— hi, gay libertarian techbro Peter Thiel!
— which said that “The political slogan of the antichrist is ‘peace and safety.’ ”

(Which is funny because isn’t that what all Trump’s Nazi scaremongering about being women’s protector is?)

Federer, jumping the shark completely, told the crowd that
“Someday, you’re going to be dead” and in Heaven
— specifically in Moses’s living room,
some kind of celestial onesie party, I guess
— and Moses will tell stories of all the hot shit he did and David will talk about that one time he fucked up Goliath,

and then everybody will look at the MAGA Christians and ask them what they did.
https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/lets-meet-jd-vances-creepy-christian

This isn’t about J.D. #Vance hanging out with pro-Russian fascist podcasters who gleefully platform Holocaust deniers,
-- although that’s definitely a thing.

And it’s not specifically about the libertarian/authoritarian #Peter #Thiel techbro creepers who basically created J.D. in a lab, without whom he’d literally be nothing.
-- But both of those things are related to these things.

This is about the #Christian #nationalists who find themselves in J.D. Vance’s orbit, and he in theirs
— people who are literally prayer-gasming themselves right now at the idea of having one of their own freaks a heartbeat away from the presidency.

To start off with, did y’all hear about the town hall Vance just did with #Lance #Wallnau, one of the most #dangerous “Seven Mountains” Christian Nationalist #Dominionists in the country?

Lance Wallnau is perhaps the foremost figure in what’s called the #New #Apostolic #Reformation movement, which teaches that Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven “mountains” of American life
— family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.

There is no room for democracy in this movement,
it’s authoritarian,
and it craves a dictator.

Wallnau is fucking bonkers.
His movement is fucking bonkers.

Wallnau believes people on the left are literal #demons,
that Kamala Harris has a “Jezebel Spirit,” and so much more.

Oh, and of course, Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation believe Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus,
a pagan emperor being used by God to bring forth his kingdom on earth.

Ayup. So it’s not surprising that Wallnau and his movement are deeply entwined with the “Stop the Steal” movement,
which did what it did on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.

Wallnau has been doing something called the #Courage #Tour.

And sweet, kind, caring, moderate J.D. Vance was a special guest on that Courage Tour last weekend in Pennsylvania,
though he was careful not to appear with Wallnau, and did his best to make the event seem as innocuous as possible.

As it happens, Stephanie McCrummen published an article in The Atlantic this week called
“The Christian Radicals Are Coming,”
which is all about the tour’s stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Half Pentecostal tent revival, half voter registration and mobilization event, the thousands who attended were treated to several days of the kind of radicalizing, violent rhetoric you usually hear in documentaries about, well, radicalized movements that turn violent.

Wallnau told congregants about a scene from Gladiator featuring its main character Maximus, and asked the crowd if they were ready to be “activated in your Maximus anointing.”

He told attendees he suspected they were “nobodies on earth who are somebodies in the spirit.” That’ll make ‘em feel special.

Another speaker, a weirdo author named #Bill #Federer, who seems to think he’s a historian, told them they were “important people,” and that “God has chosen you” for this moment in history.

He cited a quote from Peter Thiel
— hi, gay libertarian techbro Peter Thiel!
— which said that “The political slogan of the antichrist is ‘peace and safety.’ ”

(Which is funny because isn’t that what all Trump’s Nazi scaremongering about being women’s protector is?)

Federer, jumping the shark completely, told the crowd that
“Someday, you’re going to be dead” and in Heaven
— specifically in Moses’s living room,
some kind of celestial onesie party, I guess
— and Moses will tell stories of all the hot shit he did and David will talk about that one time he fucked up Goliath,

and then everybody will look at the MAGA Christians and ask them what they did.
https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/lets-meet-jd-vances-creepy-christian