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2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ary state, local, federal, and military resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Taking a page out of Viktor Orbán’s playbook, he promised his audience of die-hard fans “a baby boom,” including “baby bonuses”—inserting his very own brand of crudeness, announcing “you men out there are so lucky. You are so lucky, men”—presumably with all the sex they will be having to get those sweet baby bonuses. From…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…ry survival of America and the end of the world, this is fuel for the next domestic terrorist incident. *CORRECTION: This essay incorrectly identified Charles Pace as “the current leader of the Branch Davidians.” In fact, while he was a Branch Davidian in the 1970s, Pace was never a follower of David Koresh, doesn’t appear to have the support of any surviving Branch Davidians, and there’s little reason to associate his beliefs with those of the Br…

Hell in a Cell: ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Reflects the Growing Belief That Cocksure Men Will Save Us in the Battle of Good v. Evil

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ntentionally, challenged gender roles because they’re celibate and take on domestic duties that are often assigned to women. By contrast, The Exorcist’s Father Karras is a boxer who grew up in the slums. When not investigating the demonic, he’s shown either working out or drinking and smoking with his fellow Jesuits. Now, this was the sort of priest who could fight for traditionalism. Significantly, Amorth named The Exorcist as his favorite film….

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…t are the implications of a violent, percussive war in the Middle East for domestic American politics? The impacts will only be heightened as we’ve entered a political season that had already promised to be—even without war in Ukraine and now in the so-called Holy Land—an unholy shit show. But the outbreak of violent struggle in Israel and the Occupied Territories has the potential to favor Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the authoritarian…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…a around affirmative action policies and “wokeness,” their relationship to domestic politics transformed too. Many Modi Democrats have been waiting for a figure like Vivek Ramaswamy to provide a new container for their political beliefs. Ramaswamy, like Trump—and indeed most successful far-right populists today—is known for making a range of bellicose, contradictory and media-baiting statements. But Ramaswamy has retained a modicum of consistency…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…the American Grain (Cornell University Press, 1996). [20] Amy Cooter, “US Domestic Militias’ Intersections with Government and Authority: How a Sociology of Individualism Informs their Praxis,” in Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood: Tensions and Cooperation, eds. D. Neubert, H. Laugh, and C. Mohamad Klotzback (Springer, 2022). Cooter argues that militias’ opposition to the federal government does not carry over to their views of sta…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…States a Christian nation. It also specifically calls for making both our domestic and our foreign policy reflect what some refer to as “traditional family values.” But here the interpretation of those family values is kind of a fringe religious position. In law, it not only reflects what some people call “originalism,” but it reflects more and more another theocratic interpretation of law. A lot of the laws now being challenged in court focus no…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ir desire for lower taxes, a more aggressive stance against Communism, and domestic policies that advanced traditional social values. To them, Congress was the bastion of liberal Democrats and liberal values, and the executive branch was for conservatives. The Federalist Society, a club founded the year Reagan took office, was an important driver of this new ideology. In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…n, the Claremont Institute’s Theo Wold, a former Department of Justice and Domestic Policy official under Trump, championed that “it’s time not just to end mass immigration, but to reverse it. It’s time to decolonize America.” Wold also admitted that there’s anxiety over recent press scrutiny of the Right’s policy plans (like Project 2025, with its booth in the hallway). Responding to his own question, “How will a future Trump administration decol…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tnote claims that there are enough potential adoptive parents to meet the “domestic supply of infants.” Otherwise, the mainstreaming of white nationalism will continue, past a tipping point, if we’re not already there yet. The “Great Replacement” and “White Genocide” are calls for violence by adherents—sometimes covertly, sometimes not. Every single politician, pundit and media personality who promotes the “Great Replacement” has contributed to th…