Right Wing Round-Up: Never Have To Vote Again

  • McKay Coppins @ The Atlantic: The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally
  • A close reading of the prayers delivered before the former president speaks.

  • Rachel Leingang and Stephanie Kirchgaessner @ The Guardian: Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei
  • Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings.

  • Will Carless @ USA Today: Project 2025 decried as racist. Some contributors have trail of racist writings, activity
  • A closer look at the named contributors to Project 2025 adds to the concern: A USA TODAY analysis found at least five of them have a history of racist writing or statements, or white supremacist activity.

  • Warren Throckmorton: Ben Carson Botches Ben Franklin Prayer Story
  • The Constitution Wasn’t Rescued with Delegates Kneeling in Prayer.

  • Angry White Men: Stew Peters Promotes Mein Kampf And Calls Jews ‘A Depraved People’
  • During a recent episode of Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli, Holocaust denier and Nazi sympathizer Stew Peters referred to Jews as “a depraved people.” On the show, which is available on X (formerly Twitter), Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, he also recommended people read Mein Kampf and used the N-word.

  • Bradley Onishi @ Salon: J.D. Vance Will Be a More Extremist Christian VP Than Mike Pence
  • The vice presidential pick’s Catholicism hasn’t received a lot of attention, but it’s the key to the populist radicalism he wants to impose on America.

  • Melissa Gira Grant @ The New Republic: The Violent Implications of the “Jezebel” Attacks on Kamala Harris
  • Calling Black women “Jezebel” has a long, racist history. But as a recent video shows, it also has a more modern meaning among Christian nationalists.

  • Dennis Aftergut @ Salon: The man who set the stage for an imperial presidency if Trump wins
  • A look at Leonard Leo’s American theocracy.

  • Ben Blanchet @ HuffPost: Trump Tells Crowd ‘You Won’t Have To Vote’ Again After Election In Bizarre Remarks
  • GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump told Christians on Friday to vote “just this time” and said they “won’t have to do it anymore” after the election in November.

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