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March 4, 2024 5:04 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Impressively Machiavellian
The Daily Caller reports that “dozens of conservative organization leaders are sending a letter to members of Congress on Friday demanding they adopt protections for religious Americans who support the traditional idea of marriage.” The far-right website Church Militant, which was already reeling from controversy, will cease operations in April after losing a defamation case. […]
March 4, 2024 3:21 pm
No, Charlie Kirk, Our Form Of Government Was Not ‘Directly Inspired By Deuteronomy’
Right-wing activist and commentator Charlie Kirk has become a full-blown Christian nationalist in recent years and, like so many other Christian nationalists, he relentlessly spreads disinformation in support of his radical worldview. Kirk loves nothing more than to boldly assert that Founding Fathers relied on the book of Deuteronomy in creating our system of government, […]
March 1, 2024 5:04 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Religion And Politics
Heidi Przybyla @ Politico: The Right Way to Cover the Intersection of Religion and Politics . Every person’s spiritual motivations are entitled to respect. Once these motivations take them onto the stage of politics and lawmaking that will affect the lives of fellow citizens, however, they will be treated the same as any other political […]
March 1, 2024 5:02 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Unpalatable
We are starting to wonder if Rick Santorum knows anything about the Founding Era, because his assertions that early presidents are famous today because they led the nation during “military strife” and that the federal government didn’t do very much back then are absurdly wrong. Speaking of absurdly wrong, we don’t even know where to […]
February 29, 2024 5:08 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Coming To A Church Near You
Patrick Svitek @ The Washington Post: Republican House candidate who disparaged Special Olympians says he’s still running J.R. Majewski announced that he won’t end campaign for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District despite facing backlash for his comments on a podcast this month. Telling Jefferson Lies: Whitewashing Jefferson, Part Two This is a continuation of last week’s […]
February 29, 2024 5:06 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Say What You Really Mean
The Family Research Council and Catholic Vote are demanding an apology Wednesday from Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla, apparently for not appropriately sharing their Christian nationalist worldview. It was really only a matter of time before conspiracy theorist Clay Clark appeared on “The Jim Bakker Show.” White nationalist Vincent James tells others on the right to […]
February 29, 2024 2:36 pm
Christian Nationalist MAGA Cultists Launch ‘The Courage Tour’ To Put Trump Back In Office
In 2023, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and unabashed Trump cultist Lance Wallnau announced his intention to travel the country ahead of the 2024 elections in order to break the “demonic strongholds” in swing states that are supposedly preventing Republicans from winning elections. That idea eventually merged with the revival Fire and Glory Tour that Wallnau was […]
February 28, 2024 5:03 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Overthrow The Government
Addie Stan @ The New Republic: CPAC 2024: This Year America, Tomorrow the World. Sure, Donald Trump was the star. But the real story was the global coalition preparing to cast the world into darkness that is Steve Bannon’s brainchild. Odette Yousef @ NPR: Alabama justice’s ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern. In the […]
February 28, 2024 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Lament For CPAC
Sen. Mitch McConnell announced that he will step down from his leadership position in November. Radical Christian nationalist Bill Cook met with Virginia Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Sears yesterday. David Keene, a former chairman of the American Conservative Union which produces the CPAC conference, laments what has become of the annual event: “We were open to […]
February 28, 2024 9:06 am
Influential MAGAchurch Pastor John MacArthur Judges MLK, Jr. as ‘Not a Christian at All’
John MacArthur, an influential right-wing megachurch pastor and author, told an audience at his church last week that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was “not a Christian at all.” MacArthur described the pastor and civil rights icon as “a nonbeliever who misrepresented everything about Christ and the gospel.” MacArthur, considered one of the most influential […]