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July 16, 2024 5:09 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Divine Protection
Michael C. Bender, Andrew Trunsky and Neil Vigdor @ The New York Times: After Saturday, Trump’s Devotees See ‘God’s Protection’ Some of Donald J. Trump’s followers had long viewed him as handpicked by God. The attempted assassination has only increased such quasi-religious devotion and rhetoric. Sam Kestenbaum @ Harpers: The Demon Slayers The new age […]
July 16, 2024 5:08 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Remove the Unrighteous
Lance Wallnau claims that he prophesied former President Donald Trump’s decision to choose Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate. Racists and Christian nationalists are not happy about Harmeet Dhillon delivering a prayer at the RNC last night. Days after Oklahoma state superintendent of education Ryan Walters tapped several right-wing propagandists to overhaul the state’s […]
July 16, 2024 2:39 pm
Tucker Carlson Tells RNC Attendees They Are in a ‘Spiritual Battle’ Against People Who Want to ‘Kill Christians’
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson closed out the all-day Heritage Foundation policy fest on the first day of the Republican National Convention. He warned the crowd that they are in a “spiritual battle” against “anti-human” forces that want to “eliminate” Christians. In a strange choice for talking to political activists, Carlson began by describing […]
July 16, 2024 1:57 pm
Right-Wing Bomb Thrower Eric Metaxas Blames the Left’s Rhetoric for Trump Assassination Attempt
Ever since Joe Biden became president, few right-wing commentators have been as viciously unhinged as religious-right broadcaster Eric Metaxas. Now, in the wake of the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump over the weekend, Metaxas has the gall to place the blame for the attack entirely on the left, accusing liberals of comparing […]
July 16, 2024 10:09 am
Antisemitic White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Blames Israel For Trump Assassination Attempt
White nationalist Nick Fuentes hosted an emergency livestream on Saturday night in response to the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump that was carried out by a lone 20-year-old shooter earlier that day. Fuentes, who in addition to being a racist, misogynistic, homophobic Christian nationalist fascist is also a virulent antisemite, used his […]
July 15, 2024 5:32 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Ziklag
Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: What J.D. Vance really believes The dark worldview of Trump’s choice for vice president, explained. Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole @ CNN: Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump A federal judge on Monday dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, a shock ruling that clears away […]
July 15, 2024 5:31 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Trump Assassination Commemorative Coin
Randall Terry reacted to the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump by blaming reproductive choice: “We are reaping what we have sown as a nation. We have spilt the blood of 65,000,000 innocent human beings. The violence we have permitted and promoted will bring more violence and bloodshed. God is not mocked.” Mario […]
July 15, 2024 5:18 pm
Trump V.P. Pick J.D. Vance Wrote Intro to New Book by Heritage President Kevin Roberts
The Trump campaign’s recent dishonest efforts to distance itself from the deservedly reviled Project 2025 policy agenda created by his former aides and closest allies got even less convincing Monday with Trump’s choice of MAGA hardliner J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance has praised Project 2025’s authoritarian, anti-equality, anti-freedom policy agenda. Vance is a […]
July 15, 2024 1:29 pm
‘Secretary of Retribution’ and ‘Deep State Marauder’ Joins Board of Michael Flynn’s Group
Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security Advisor, has welcomed self-described “secretary of retribution” and “deep state marauder” Ivan Raiklin to the board of directors of America’s Future, Inc., which Flynn chairs. Raiklin, subject of a recent in-depth Raw Story investigation, has developed a far-right following online and at Flynn’s ReAwaken America tours with his calls for […]
July 15, 2024 12:34 pm
Pastor Jack Hibbs: Assassination Attempt Was ‘A Warning By Almighty God’ That Trump Must ‘Bow the Knee’ to Jesus
Jack Hibbs, a far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor, conspiracy theorist, and Christian nationalist, delivered a special sermon Sunday in response to the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump the day before. Clad in a “colonial preachers robe” meant to the emulate the apocryphal “Black Robe Regiment” that supposedly rallied the colonists to rebel against England […]