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Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

…president, including George W. Bush. I expect they will stand by him in the 2024 election cycle, whether or not he receives a prison sentence as a result of the criminal indictments he currently faces. But whoever Joe Biden faces when the dust settles from the Republican primaries, Democrats will have to be ready to counter the Christian nationalist narrative of decline caused by the “godlessness” of “woke leftists” who have the audacity to believ…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

…nicated who belongs to Germany for him and who does not: “Kreuzberg is not Germany. Gillamoos is Germany, ladies and gentlemen.” Kreuzberg is a multicultural, artsy, Left-leaning district of Berlin, whose supposed degeneracy Merz juxtaposes with the wholesome homeyness and patriotism of White, rural Bavarian Gillamoos. Decent, hard-working White country folk, cast as a bulwark of patriotism against the bogeyman image of the debauched, degenerate c…

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White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

…ionalist slogan embraced by neo-Nazis since 2017. “I talked to Trump twice today!” For the evening session, Marco Rubio had been announced to give a keynote—but, as many attendees had already noticed, Rubio changed his dinner plans and skipped NatCon to attend the evening’s Trump rally in Miami in the hope that he’ll be tapped to be VP. Instead, Vivek Ramaswamy waxed on about the values of “national libertarianism.” Ramaswamy, maybe to show that h…

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Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

…elicals reportedly voted for Trump in 2016, the percentage dropped to 76 percent in 2020, though experts contend that White evangelical support for Trump is “remarkably stable and consistently strong.” AFPI believes that if they can get back to 81, or even part way, that could make the difference in 2024. But wherever Wallnau, AFPI, and their partners go this election season, and whatever the outcomes of elections at all levels in 2024, the strugg…

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Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

…nservative movement’ DeMuth summarized the aims of national conservatism in 2024 as the promotion of “patriotic schooling,” an “end to civil violence and antisemitism,” and a “revival of faith, family and fertility,” while deriding “[anti-populist] elites in Brussels and Washington” along with “our atomised, feminized, self-obsessed culture where autonomy is the holy grail.” The throughline of the opening remarks of both DeMuth and his fellow NatC…

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How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

…ts in it, widespread mistrust may make accusations more likely. Early West Germany was an uncanny place. A haunted place. A place beset by alienation and secrecy. Alexander Mitscherlich, a psychiatrist who would become one of the Federal Republic’s most prominent and respected critics, described the atmosphere in terms of a “chill” that he said had “befallen the relationships of men among one another.” This chill was “on a cosmic scale,” Mitscherl…

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At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

…ot just make good on Adolf Hitler’s vows to punish elites who had “stabbed Germany in the back” by accepting the draconian terms of the Versailles Treaty (which held Germany responsible for all moral and material damages incurred during World War One). They also targeted groups that Hitler identified as threats to Germany’s survival in the future. These included Jews (“black parasites of the nation”); Bolsheviks (the “scum of humanity”); and war p…

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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

Germany: Why anti-LGBT voices are ‘louder in secular France than in pious Germany’ In a column by “Erasmus”—a regular feature described by the Economist as “notes on the interplay between religion and policy, in the spirit of the Dutch Renaissance humanist and scholar—the magazine observes, “Conservatives speak louder in secular France than in pious Germany.” Some excerpts: In France, gay marriage became law in May 2013. Street protests by social…

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Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

…ter of a Lutheran pastor. Woolsey notes of the post-war government in West Germany kept paragraph 175 of the criminal code, which criminalized homosexuality, in place: The party bloc in government during those years was a combination of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its even more traditional Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). Formed out of the remnants of Weimar-era Catholic and Protestant parties (hen…

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