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Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

…cially to themselves, to cover for its real purpose—restoring the American republic to a purer, more Eden-like, state of Christian feudalism. Abortion is about far more than a woman’s right to choice or an embryo’s right to life, or whatever framing that’s convenient at a given political moment. As with much else after the election of America’s first Black president, the political movement against abortion is really a political movement against a…

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Painting of Jesus holding the US Constitution surrounded by Americans throughout its history.

Columbus Day Celebrates a Christian Doctrine That Authorized Centuries of Violence — and Continues to Threaten American Democracy

…ries after its emergence, 30 percent of Americans, including majorities of Republicans and White evangelical Protestants, agree with its central tenet: that “America was intended by God to be a promised land where European Christians could set an example for the rest of the world.” While contemporary analysts refer to this aggrieved and increasingly militant minority with the term “White Christian nationalism,” the roots of this threat to democrac…

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North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks

…that we document are orchestrated by far right groups and individuals who promote the political ideology of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism. Structurally, Hindutva is similar to other exclusionary ideologies, such as white Christian nationalism and Islamism. In India, proponents of Hindutva seek to transform the constitutionally secular republic into an ethnonationalist Hindu state that would privilege Hindus above other groups (especially Muslims…

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

…fight ahead of us… when I started in politics a few years back, it was the Republicans versus the Democrats, and then it changed into something totally different, it became conservatives against liberals, and now we’ve gone beyond that, and I’m convinced today, that it’s patriots versus the traitors. And I’m a patriot, what about you?” That kind of rhetoric was only amplified by the display that preceded Trump’s speech, with the former president p…

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5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

…n the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New Republic, Salon, and other outlets. Exvangelicals were even featured in Newsweek twice, including in the cover article of the print edition for December 21. The biggest exvangelical media breakthrough thus far, however, is surely the CBS special “Deconstructing My Religion,” written and produced by Liz Kineke, and which began running on CBS affiliate stations earlier this m…

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

…of Roberts’ speech pitted NatCon as an insurgent movement against “beltway Republicans” who “have failed this Republic” and “hurt this nation, the people, the constitution they took an oath to defend…sorry you have to be in the swamp,” he told the DC gathering, “but this is actually an imperial city we’re in the process of taking back. So thanks for being here.” Our power will rise in direct correlation with our ability to honor great leaders who…

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The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

…was an important driver of this new ideology. In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive (Oxford, 2022) historians Stephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn and Desmond King track the gradual rise of unitary executive theory over the decades: The theory gestated in the conservative legal movement and in the Federalist Society. Its cutting edge has been sharpened during Republican administrations. Its most explicit an…

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‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

…ca.” An old saw on the Right maintains that the US isn’t a democracy but a republic, (which is false), but this woman, like more and more Trumpers, takes a step further: democracy = communism = an evil that needs no explanation and merits no mercy. Our correspondents keep moving. “I have a close connection to President Trump, as a teacher,” a middle-aged White woman named Janice, caped in a Trump flag, tells Paul. It dates back to her student-teac…

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From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

…d that having a convicted felon as a nominee would finally be the red line Republicans wouldn’t cross, it must have been a rude awakening. The vast majority of Republican officials threw their considerable weight behind the convicted felon who is awaiting three other criminal trials in the future. They spun tales of an allegedly biased prosecutor; an unfair jury, despite Trump’s attorneys being involved in jury selection; and a left-wing jury, tho…

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Doing a Dukakis (But with Jesus) — Biden Does Not Need to Be More Publicly Christian

…ondly, how does this argument make sense in a country founded as a secular republic meant to maintain a sharp separation between church and state? Thirdly, whose god? I mean, what do you think the Christian nationalists are doing when they vote, if not putting God first as they understand this infinitely malleable figure? Voting Republican is a religious imperative for the White evangelicals I grew up among, because the GOP pursues policies that l…

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