At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
Donald Trump’s Waco rally this past weekend was, in the end, filled with echoes of…
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Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
It’s well established that people lie to pollsters, or at the very least put their…
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Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
David Eastman is one of the rising young stars of the Christian Right. Controversial, blunt,…
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Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
This coming Saturday, March 25th—one week after a hysterical all-caps social media post in which…
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AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
Violence has always been at the center of White Christian nationalism: the vow to impose…
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Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
Donald Trump has, in the past, dallied with apocalypticism in his rhetoric and policy, but…
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Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?
Troubling new details regarding the violent propensity of Christian nationalism have been revealed by a…
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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
Considering that CPAC is the largest conservative conference in the US, the line-up of their…
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‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch
One of the funnier developments in the ongoing drama around the “He Gets Us” campaign…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Red/Blue ‘National Divorce’ Looks an Awful Lot Like a Confederate Flag
There is nothing quite like the fresh hell of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, wondering…
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