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Authoritarians, strongmen wannabes like Trump and Mussolini, make the "authoritarian bargain," Ben-Ghiat says, in which they court elites, business and religious ones, to give legitimacy to their authoritarianism. On the Catholic side, as Ben-Ghiat points out, there's the powerful, secretive, wealthy right-wing cult Opus Dei which is omnipresent in DC and helps prop trump up.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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Authoritarians, strongmen wannabes like Trump and Mussolini, make the "authoritarian bargain," Ben-Ghiat says, in which they court elites, business and religious ones, to give legitimacy to their authoritarianism. On the Catholic side, as Ben-Ghiat points out, there's the powerful, secretive, wealthy right-wing cult Opus Dei which is omnipresent in DC and helps prop trump up.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes that "Trump does this thing with images of Jesus when he feels extremely threatened." Not only did he recently post the blasphemous AI image equating himself with Jesus (and then lie and say he thought the image was a doctor). But when he had his criminal trial, he released a sketch showing Jesus standing next to him.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
/6https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/lessons-in-authoritarian-history
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes that "Trump does this thing with images of Jesus when he feels extremely threatened." Not only did he recently post the blasphemous AI image equating himself with Jesus (and then lie and say he thought the image was a doctor). But when he had his criminal trial, he released a sketch showing Jesus standing next to him.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
/6https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/lessons-in-authoritarian-history
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"A lot of thoughts spring to mind in relation to this, but at the very forefront, one question: do the US’s evangelical Christians, who overwhelmingly support Trump, have a red line and if so, can they find it with both hands?
I’m stating the obvious but it’s worth raising again, if only to boggle at the sheer shamelessness of a religious community that has thrown in its lot with Trump."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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"A lot of thoughts spring to mind in relation to this, but at the very forefront, one question: do the US’s evangelical Christians, who overwhelmingly support Trump, have a red line and if so, can they find it with both hands?
I’m stating the obvious but it’s worth raising again, if only to boggle at the sheer shamelessness of a religious community that has thrown in its lot with Trump."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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"He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting on the goodwill of one powerful constituency of American voters, to whom he appealed this week by reading a passage from the Bible urging people to repent their 'wicked ways'."
~ Emma Brockes
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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"He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting on the goodwill of one powerful constituency of American voters, to whom he appealed this week by reading a passage from the Bible urging people to repent their 'wicked ways'."
~ Emma Brockes
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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"backslide and apostasy. …
This book will speak particularly to those like me who grew up part of white Christian churches, but it is also for anyone who wants to understand how we got here, with so many white Christians trading faith for power and democracy for dominion."
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"backslide and apostasy. …
This book will speak particularly to those like me who grew up part of white Christian churches, but it is also for anyone who wants to understand how we got here, with so many white Christians trading faith for power and democracy for dominion."
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Robert P. Jones, raised Southern Baptist with a divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, announces his new book Backslide, saying:
"As we’ve witnessed the indefensible willingness of conservative white Christians to shed their core values like inconvenient loads along the road to supporting Donald Trump, ’ve been brought back to two words from my evangelical upbringing:" (continued in /15)
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists
/14https://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/officially-announcing-my-new-book
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Robert P. Jones, raised Southern Baptist with a divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, announces his new book Backslide, saying:
"As we’ve witnessed the indefensible willingness of conservative white Christians to shed their core values like inconvenient loads along the road to supporting Donald Trump, ’ve been brought back to two words from my evangelical upbringing:" (continued in /15)
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists
/14https://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/officially-announcing-my-new-book
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"Trump's elfish toady" is a perfect description of Little Mike Johnson:
"Johnson has not built a reputation for honesty or competence and has done little to show vulnerable House members in his caucus that he cares about protecting them or their seats. The coming months should be brutal for him — and will, hopefully, end with his majority and speakership destroyed in a humiliating and titanic blue wave."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #MikeJohnson #WhiteChristianNationalists
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mike-johnson-loses-republicans
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"Trump's elfish toady" is a perfect description of Little Mike Johnson:
"Johnson has not built a reputation for honesty or competence and has done little to show vulnerable House members in his caucus that he cares about protecting them or their seats. The coming months should be brutal for him — and will, hopefully, end with his majority and speakership destroyed in a humiliating and titanic blue wave."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #MikeJohnson #WhiteChristianNationalists
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mike-johnson-loses-republicans
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CW: Language some might find offensive
"Important questions, especially if you’re one of the perhaps deceived! ...
Oh shitfuck, y’all! Has MAGA been worshiping Satan this whole time, just to stick it to the libs?"
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #antichrist #bible
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CW: Language some might find offensive
"Important questions, especially if you’re one of the perhaps deceived! ...
Oh shitfuck, y’all! Has MAGA been worshiping Satan this whole time, just to stick it to the libs?"
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #antichrist #bible
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Today, he takes on the "MAGA begins to ask if Trump is really the antichrist discussion":
"Is it dawning on (some of) these folks that maybe this great deceiver, this false christ, this boogeyman they’ve been training their whole lives to spot — especially if they’re a certain kind of evangelical — might have ALREADY DECEIVED THEM AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO HELL WHEN THEY DIE BECAUSE THE TRUE MARK OF THE BEAST IS A RED MAGA HAT?"
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #MAGA #antichrist #bible
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Today, he takes on the "MAGA begins to ask if Trump is really the antichrist discussion":
"Is it dawning on (some of) these folks that maybe this great deceiver, this false christ, this boogeyman they’ve been training their whole lives to spot — especially if they’re a certain kind of evangelical — might have ALREADY DECEIVED THEM AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO HELL WHEN THEY DIE BECAUSE THE TRUE MARK OF THE BEAST IS A RED MAGA HAT?"
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #MAGA #antichrist #bible
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Evan Hurst, who grew up in my hometown of Little Rock until he was a young adolescent and then spent the rest of his growing-up years in Memphis, which is still home for him, is snarky. Profane. Cusses a blue streak in everything he writes.
But despite that — or for some of us, precisely because of that — he's one of the sharpest commentators around on our culture right now.
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #antichrist #bible
/11https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-trump-the-antichrist-well-im-not
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Evan Hurst, who grew up in Little Rock until he was a young adolescent and then spent the rest of his growing-up years in Memphis, which is still home for him, is snarky. Profane. Cusses a blue streak in everything he writes.
But despite that — or for some of us, precisely because of that — he's one of the sharpest commentators around on our culture right now.
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #antichrist #bible
/11https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-trump-the-antichrist-well-im-not
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For more on white Christian nationalism and the role it's playing — front and center via lavishly funded acts of empty public piety — in propping up the corrupt Trump regime, see Mary Trump on the politics of blasphemy with its fake religiosity and the making of a false idol:
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-politics-of-blasphemy
And see Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins:
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-crazy-white-christian-nationalist
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For more on white Christian nationalism and the role it's playing — front and center via lavishly funded acts of empty public piety — in propping up the corrupt Trump regime, see Mary Trump on the politics of blasphemy with its fake religiosity and the making of a false idol:
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-politics-of-blasphemy
And see Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins:
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-crazy-white-christian-nationalist
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"The same way Trump became president. Wielding power, abusing power, convincing others that he’d wield power on their behalf and that they could get a little bit of that power for themselves. Power over others. Power to do harm, and call it righteous. ...
'Let me bring a banger from the Bible,' Wajahat offers. 'Beware of false prophets, who inwardly are ravening wolves.’ That’s for you, Pastor Wilson.”
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
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"The same way Trump became president. Wielding power, abusing power, convincing others that he’d wield power on their behalf and that they could get a little bit of that power for themselves. Power over others. Power to do harm, and call it righteous. ...
'Let me bring a banger from the Bible,' Wajahat offers. 'Beware of false prophets, who inwardly are ravening wolves.’ That’s for you, Pastor Wilson.”
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
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"For those of us who have been paying attention for years, or even decades, there’s a certain kind of horror watching a man like Doug Wilson, and then his congregant Pete Hegseth, move from the fringes of society to the centers of power. ...
How on earth did he end up getting profiled on CNN and featured in The New York Times?"
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
/8https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/false-prophets-without-clothes
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"For those of us who have been paying attention for years, or even decades, there’s a certain kind of horror watching a man like Doug Wilson, and then his congregant Pete Hegseth, move from the fringes of society to the centers of power. ...
How on earth did he end up getting profiled on CNN and featured in The New York Times?"
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
/8https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/false-prophets-without-clothes
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Tennessee Holler (see /6) is quoting Wajahat Ali's statement to Douglas Wilson:
“I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth."
Ali:
"I felt compelled to speak my mind and remember Bible verses taught to me by Jesuits at my Catholic High School. You could say I felt like I was on a mission from God."
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
/7https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-drag-pete-hegseths-bigoted
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Tennessee Holler (see /6) is quoting Wajahat Ali's statement to Douglas Wilson:
“I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth."
Ali:
"I felt compelled to speak my mind and remember Bible verses taught to me by Jesuits at my Catholic High School. You could say I felt like I was on a mission from God."
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
/7https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-drag-pete-hegseths-bigoted
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Piers Morgan, Wajahat Ali, and Tim Miller have a video-taped conversation with Douglas Wilson, the Christian nationalist (and theocratic, misogynistic, homophobic) Reformed pastor to whose communion of churches Hegseth belongs.
And as Tennessee Holler says,
"@wajahatali.bsky.social eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @timmiller.bsky.social & piers in the front row)"
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mjxyyvwjz22h
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
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Piers Morgan, Wajahat Ali, and Tim Miller have a video-taped conversation with Douglas Wilson, the Christian nationalist (and theocratic, misogynistic, homophobic) Reformed pastor to whose communion of churches Hegseth belongs.
And as Tennessee Holler says,
"@wajahatali.bsky.social eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @timmiller.bsky.social & piers in the front row)"
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mjxyyvwjz22h
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #WhiteChristianNationalists
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"When those in power publicly align themselves with Christianity while enacting policies and practices that harm the vulnerable, they are not simply making political decisions. They are shaping what the world believes Christianity is.
They are discipling people, not into the way of Jesus, but into a version of faith that looks nothing like him.
And that breaks my heart."
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"When those in power publicly align themselves with Christianity while enacting policies and practices that harm the vulnerable, they are not simply making political decisions. They are shaping what the world believes Christianity is.
They are discipling people, not into the way of Jesus, but into a version of faith that looks nothing like him.
And that breaks my heart."
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"This is a kind of performative Christianity that knows how to read a Bible in public while closing its eyes to the people standing in front of it. ...
The irony is that the very Bible to be read this week speaks boldly against this kind of performative religion."
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"This is a kind of performative Christianity that knows how to read a Bible in public while closing its eyes to the people standing in front of it. ...
The irony is that the very Bible to be read this week speaks boldly against this kind of performative religion."
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"As a follower of Jesus who deeply believes in the separation of church and state, it not only grieves me to see any religion used by the powerful in this way, but it grieves me even more that it is my sacred faith and our holy scriptures being used to elevate the the rich and powerful and harm the very people Jesus called us to love and serve."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible
/3https://benjaminrcremer.substack.com/p/responding-to-the-entire-bible-being
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"As a follower of Jesus who deeply believes in the separation of church and state, it not only grieves me to see any religion used by the powerful in this way, but it grieves me even more that it is my sacred faith and our holy scriptures being used to elevate the the rich and powerful and harm the very people Jesus called us to love and serve."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible
/3https://benjaminrcremer.substack.com/p/responding-to-the-entire-bible-being
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"This is, of course, another terrible entanglement of our government with a very narrow type of conservative evangelical Christianity, the same thing driving the Department of Homeland Security to post overt Christian nationalist slop like 'One Homeland Under God' on official social media accounts. All of it is antithetical to the very foundations of American democracy and erodes our freedoms."
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"This is, of course, another terrible entanglement of our government with a very narrow type of conservative evangelical Christianity, the same thing driving the Department of Homeland Security to post overt Christian nationalist slop like 'One Homeland Under God' on official social media accounts. All of it is antithetical to the very foundations of American democracy and erodes our freedoms."
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As Lisa Needham notes, Trump and many members of his regime will be reading the bible — out loud, not in the privacy of their own chambers — to the public in an effusive, empty, corrupt display of public piety that's all about claiming ownership of Christianity and the American government for a narrow slice of religionists — white Christian nationalists.
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As Lisa Needham notes, Trump and many members of his regime will be reading the bible — out loud, not in the privacy of their own chambers — to the public in an effusive, empty, corrupt display of public piety that's all about claiming ownership of Christianity and the American government for a narrow slice of religionists — white Christian nationalists.
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Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism
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