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Civil Religion v. Uncivil Religion; With Deadly Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…d. I especially hope and believe that will be the case for a President incapable of leading a response to the crisis; incapable really of making anything about more than his own ratings. Rousseau had that faith, too. It drove the mobs of the French Revolution. It doesn’t take much of a prophet to see that the Trumpist civil religion—so intolerant of anyone who would disagree, so contemptuous of the health, safety, or flourishing of others—cannot l…

Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

By Thomas Lecaque

…es his rhetoric of border security but also his lengthy history of anti-Hispanic violence. And its location “in the heartland of Texas” makes it a great opening spot for his campaign. And Waco, as many will recall, has other violent associations. There’s the brutality of the Jim Crow era—the “Waco Horror” is aptly named—and, as far too many people online have pointed out, the rally is scheduled during the 30th anniversary of the siege of the Mount…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…atives to rehabilitate the former president in order to normalize Trump—to paint the disgraced Republican as a “man, reviled in his time,” who in fact was fighting against the “Deep State,” and seeking the secret key to all of America’s problems: authoritarian rule. The so-called “unitary executive theory,” which aims to dramatically expand the power of the presidency and which, according to legal scholar Allen Shoenberger, “lacks any historical g…

The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie

By Bradley Onishi

…nce, on Friday the jailed man was an actual J6 rioter, Brandon Straka, who participated in the violent attack on the nation’s Capitol in order to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election. For most of us, he represents a traitorous faction of Americans who disrupted the peaceful transfer of power and almost dismantled our republic through a violent coup attempt. However, for those at CPAC—and millions more across the nation—he’s a marty…

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

By Jeff Sharlet

…inds too embarrassing. “The Gathering of the MAGAlos,” says Chris of the expanding crowd, comparing it to an Insane Clown Posse concert. But the “illegal” problem is growing, too, just since Paul talked to Mark; now it’s “tens of millions,” the entire populations of El Salvador and Guatemala pouring over the “Biden border” as they speak. “Yeah!” agrees Chris. “We’re being invaded by foreign armies of all different countries.” He looks like he’s we…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ago when everybody has a Manhattan in the country club and talks about the Republican Party. We’re in a real war. Legal warfare is afoot and it’s time to return fire. To which Watters replied: Joe Biden, not mentally fit enough to stand trial but maybe some of his comrades could take a steel chair to the head. Figuratively of course. Referring to a professional wrestler of the 1980s, Travis shot back: Figuratively like Hacksaw Jim Duggan. It could…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…continues with what has now become increasingly mainstream rhetoric in the Republican Party about how trans women are really men trying to attack cis women and girls: “They are angling to get grown men into women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, shelters, and dormitories. They are angling to get Child Protective Services to remove children from parents who refuse to go along with transgenderism.” The latter claim is especially heinous, because in Texas,…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…e that it’s not those “blasphemous” and “idolatrous” Christian nationalist Republicans who are the party of religion and values, but rather the Dems.* But, in the words of the great LeVar Burton, “You don’t have to take my word for it.” In his commentary, Graves-Fitzsimmons quotes Democratic Senator Chris Coons rebuking the Democratic Party for ostensibly failing “to recognize the centrality of family, faith, opportunity, and community.” Graves-Fi…

The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…egulate systems, only public love can abolish blue privilege through municipal, state, and federal policies like the omnibus proposals of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the House of Representatives during the 117th US Congress and was championed by President Joseph R. Biden. The future of our communities, democracy, and humanness can no longer sustain the death-making institutionalism so intimately associated with the Ameri…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…e to talk about. And, despite the New York Times profile of the Q-adjacent pastor Charles Pace, who lives on the site of the former Branch Davidian compound,* and his lurid quotes (“Donald Trump is the anointed of God… He is the battering ram that God is using to bring down the Deep State of Babylon”), there was no meaningful connection between the rally and the Branch Davidians. No, the echoes have nothing to do with the siege itself and everythi…