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Loyalty and Chaos Play a Role in Trump’s Nominations, But This Schoolyard Tactic May Provide a Better Explanation

By Steven Gardiner

…ise on your morality, your sworn oaths, and your own dignity you make yourself a hostage to your own actions. The technical term is learned helplessness. It is true that when it comes to things like vote counting and sbuilding bi-partisan support for policy—or for that matter, knowing how the machinery of government, viruses, or, say, nuclear weapons, actually work—Donald Trump is incompetent. But he is a competent bully. He learned from one of th…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…on. Among them was Reagan’s second Attorney General, Edwin Meese III, who helped develop the theory and oversaw the production of a report detailing proponents’ view of unchecked presidential power—a view that sees the system of checks and balances themselves as unconstitutional. In Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Pulitzer Prize-winner Charlie Savage writes: The report’s writers argued that…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…sity for conspiracy thinking and totalitarian political ideas are most closely correlated with antisemitism—two constituencies that aren’t just prevalent on the American Right, but central to the National Populism that now serves as its motivating ideology. Because of its volatility and bigotry, the frequency of right-wing violence (up to and including lethal violence) outpaces the Left by such a wide margin that in a healthy media environment the…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…of the Pentagon and US military—and, of course, at the helm of the US-Israel relationship. After over a year of Democrat-backed Israeli genocide and belligerent escalation in Gaza, Lebanon, and across the region, the US and Israeli Right are poised to work together towards an even more brutal and dystopian agenda, ranging from full Israeli annexation of the West Bank to war against Iran and beyond. In a 2010 New Yorker profile, Mike Huckabee desc…

Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

By Robert P. Jones

…groups. This week, it struck me that this passage in Emile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life vividly captures the internal dynamics of the circus-like Trump events that have become the mainstay of the MAGA movement. Now the totem is the flag of the clan…. [The participant] does not know that the coming together of a number of men associated in the same life results in disengaging new energies, which transform each of them. All tha…

How the Abortion Debate Turned the Christian Right On To Liberal Arguments… and Birthed the Religious Freedom Industry

By Eric C. Miller

…stians who disapproved of same-sex marriage. For example, several state-level Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRA) were put into motion in 2014 and early 2015 in part to try and protect religious objectors. Immediately after the Obergefell decision, the senior counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and argued for the courts and politics to protect the rights of those who disagree with the decision. Legal…

New York City a Glenn Beck Radio Free Zone (for now)

By Joanna Brooks

…mmer and fall—which included forays into the world of Black theology and the mysteries of the Bat Creek Stone, as well as his lachrymose and prayer-scented DC Rally in August —didn’t go over so well with hardboiled conservatives in the City? Beck’s television ratings have reportedly taken a tumble for overall viewership, as have Fox News ratings in general….

Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for ‘Religious Freedom’ in the U.S.

By Frederick Clarkson

…non-government) side of the wall. At the same time, while belief is completely free from government regulation and government cannot directly regulate the free exercise of religion, government can pass “neutral” laws (not targeted at religion) which may happen to be inconsistent with a person’s beliefs. Jefferson used the obvious example of child sacrifice or a law which prohibited the slaughter of lambs when the military was in short supply of wo…

Republicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…in TIME that all Republican National Committee leaders are being offered a free trip to Israel, thanks to the American Family Association and the American Renewal Project: The 168 members of the committee, three from each state, district, and territory, have been invited to visit the country from Jan. 31–Feb.8, 2015, paid for by conservative political operative David Lane’s American Renewal Project and the American Family Association. The meeting…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…ith serving the government (or military) or the public to preserve someone else’s freedoms. All of these are essentially conservative arguments; they are all in the wheelhouse of the conservative movement. These adjustments of emphasis, nevertheless, are made possible by the deeper philosophical contradiction between the fusionist claim to hold freedom and virtue as co-equal values. To be clear, I am not suggesting that conservative candidates in…