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July 9, 2024 5:15 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: And So I Do
The Family Policy Alliance Foundation and Christians Engaged are merging. Owen Strachan has been tapped to lead the newly formed Dobson Culture Center (as in James Dobson). Jon Miller says that if he had been alive in 1776, he would have sided with England and gladly chosen death over living in “the jewnited states of […]
July 9, 2024 2:10 pm
GOP Platform Committee Gets Bitter Taste of Trump’s Authoritarianism
Donald Trump’s dictatorial impulses were on full display in Milwaukee Monday, as Trump’s team at the Republican National Committee steamrolled the platform committee into endorsing language drafted by the Trump campaign. The bare-knuckled pressure deployed by Trump’s operatives against his own allies was more revealing about the threat of a Trump presidency than the platform […]
July 9, 2024 10:23 am
Christian Nationalist Joel Webbon Traumatized By Non-Christians In His Neighborhood
In June, a variety of far-right pastors gathered in Utah for a “Building Christian Boroughs” conference organized by the New Christendom Press. Among the participants was pastor Joel Webbon, an ardent Christian nationalist who believes that the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and therefore must be governed […]
July 8, 2024 5:23 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Bloodless, For Now
Jack Jenkins @ Religion News Service: The Washington insiders helping Sean Feucht spread Christian nationalism in Congress While Feucht often frames himself as a Washington outsider, arguably his most powerful ally is a figure who hovered along the edge of his Rotunda concert, hands raised in prayer: a Republican strategist named Timothy Teepell. Heath Druzin […]
July 8, 2024 5:21 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: If You’re Educated
MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer prayed over Oklahoma school superintendent Ryan Walters and heaped praise upon him for “bringing [God] back into the public schools, saying ‘Jesus, you are welcome in the classroom in the state of Oklahoma.’” David Barton says that “if you’re educated, you know that the greatest single source, according to the University […]
July 8, 2024 11:51 am
Trump Team Lies About Project 2025 Reveal its Potential to Cost Him the Election
Commentary Former President Donald Trump told one of his least convincing lies last week, posting on his Truth Social platform that he “has nothing to do” with Project 2025, the devastating plan by former Trump administration officials and MAGA movement allies to “take the reins of government” if he wins in November. “I have no idea who […]
July 8, 2024 9:22 am
Trump’s RNC Takes Platform Committee Behind Closed Doors in Fight Over Abortion Language
The Republican Platform Committee will meet in Milwaukee on Monday and Tuesday; unlike previous platform committee meetings, which were open to the press and broadcast to the public, this year’s deliberations will be behind closed doors. Anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ religious-right activists had a major hand in writing the most recent GOP platform in 2016, and they are […]
June 28, 2024 5:14 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: A Massive Power Grab
Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein @ Politico: Steve Bannon to report to prison Monday after Supreme Court declines to give him a reprieve The decision means the influential right-wing podcaster will head to prison on July 1, with his release date just days before the November election. Kate Riga @ Talking Points Memo: Supreme Court […]
June 28, 2024 5:12 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Hop, Skip, and a Jump
Eric Metaxas says that celebrating Juneteenth is “evil”: “It’s the celebration of victimism, of victimhood.” Christian nationalist Joel Webbon continues his attack on gay people: “If you’re willing to sodomize someone, then it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump from there to doing unspeakable things with children.” Speaking of Webbon, he wants to see […]
June 28, 2024 10:14 am
Oklahoma Superintendent Orders Public Schools to Teach Bible as White Christian Nationalists Go ‘On Offense’
Oklahoma’s Christian nationalist state superintendent of education Ryan Walters this week instructed all public schools to teach the Bible, which the New York Times called “an extraordinary move that blurs the lines between religious and instruction and public education.” Walters, an energetic supporter of former President Donald Trump, actively seeks the media spotlight for his aggressive Christian nationalism […]