A field guide to Christofascism

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The reactionary mob violence of late Reconstruction might be a good starting point, as my friend Baynard Woods argued in the Washington Post. Aggrieved white Americans were once again employing terror tactics to override the will of Black voters, and Sen. Ted Cruz had even invoked the explicitly racist Compromise of 1877 as precedent for throwing out election results.

There were echoes, too, of Germany’s Beer Hall Putsch, a horrifying if clownishly executed coup attempt that presaged the rise of the Third Reich. We could use the grim reminder that fascists rarely give up after a single setback.


This brings me to Bolivia, where the 2019 coup led by interim president Jeanine Áñez bore one striking similarity to the United States’ “Stop the Steal” movement: It had a strong current of support among Christians.

In November 2019, Áñez stood in Bolivia’s presidential palace grinning and clutching an enormous copy of the four Christian gospels. Right-wing nationalists had seized power after throwing out the results of an election that the incumbent socialist Evo Morales had won.

Signs of the cross were everywhere during the conservative ascent, from the numerous Bibles held aloft by the golpistas to the insignia of the fascist youth group led by Interim President Áñez’s ally, Luis Fernando Camacho.

“God has returned to the palace,” Camacho said. “To those who did not believe in this struggle I say God exists and is now going to govern Bolivia for all Bolivians!”
 
On Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump spent two months screeching that the election had been stolen from him, Christian symbolism was on prominent display during the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Someone waved a “Jesus 2020” campaign banner; a white cross declared “TRUMP WON;” one 40-year-old evangelical in the fracas told the New York Times she had received a sign from God and heeded her pastor’s call to “stop the steal.” Even the Proud Boys knelt in prayer and asked God’s blessing on what they were about to do.


Donald Trump and Jeanine Áñez both oversaw orgies of fascism during their time in office, and they both did so under the sign of the cross. The word for this is “Christofascism.”

By fascism, I mean the pattern of populist ultranationalism, racial grievance, and violent paramilitary action that was first formulated in Mussolini’s Italy and re-emerged in different forms from Hitler’s Germany to Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
 
guno said:
The reactionary mob violence of late Reconstruction might be a good starting point, as my friend Baynard Woods argued in the Washington Post. Aggrieved white Americans were once again employing terror tactics to override the will of Black voters, and Sen. Ted Cruz had even invoked the explicitly racist Compromise of 1877 as precedent for throwing out election results.

There were echoes, too, of Germany’s Beer Hall Putsch, a horrifying if clownishly executed coup attempt that presaged the rise of the Third Reich. We could use the grim reminder that fascists rarely give up after a single setback.


This brings me to Bolivia, where the 2019 coup led by interim president Jeanine Áñez bore one striking similarity to the United States’ “Stop the Steal” movement: It had a strong current of support among Christians.

In November 2019, Áñez stood in Bolivia’s presidential palace grinning and clutching an enormous copy of the four Christian gospels. Right-wing nationalists had seized power after throwing out the results of an election that the incumbent socialist Evo Morales had won.

Signs of the cross were everywhere during the conservative ascent, from the numerous Bibles held aloft by the golpistas to the insignia of the fascist youth group led by Interim President Áñez’s ally, Luis Fernando Camacho.

“God has returned to the palace,” Camacho said. “To those who did not believe in this struggle I say God exists and is now going to govern Bolivia for all Bolivians!”
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Hey jewbot...are you talking about regular plain old christian fascism or the new school judeo-christian fascism? I ask because I've noticed that whenever fascism appears you jews seem to be knee deep in it. Why is that?
 
guno said:
On Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump spent two months screeching that the election had been stolen from him, Christian symbolism was on prominent display during the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Someone waved a “Jesus 2020” campaign banner; a white cross declared “TRUMP WON;” one 40-year-old evangelical in the fracas told the New York Times she had received a sign from God and heeded her pastor’s call to “stop the steal.” Even the Proud Boys knelt in prayer and asked God’s blessing on what they were about to do.


Donald Trump and Jeanine Áñez both oversaw orgies of fascism during their time in office, and they both did so under the sign of the cross. The word for this is “Christofascism.”

By fascism, I mean the pattern of populist ultranationalism, racial grievance, and violent paramilitary action that was first formulated in Mussolini’s Italy and re-emerged in different forms from Hitler’s Germany to Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
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You are describing a dictatorship, not fascism. Fascism is government manipulation of markets. It is a form of theft. To implement it does tend toward oligarchies and dictatorships.
 
guno said:
On Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump spent two months screeching that the election had been stolen from him,
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It was. There was no election in 2020. The election faulted due to election fraud by Democrats.
guno said:
Christian symbolism was on prominent display during the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Someone waved a “Jesus 2020” campaign banner; a white cross declared “TRUMP WON;” one 40-year-old evangelical in the fracas told the New York Times she had received a sign from God and heeded her pastor’s call to “stop the steal.” Even the Proud Boys knelt in prayer and asked God’s blessing on what they were about to do.
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Trump didn't win. You cannot win what never took place. Biden didn't win either. He was installed.
guno said:
Donald Trump and Jeanine Áñez both oversaw orgies of fascism during their time in office, and they both did so under the sign of the cross. The word for this is “Christofascism.”
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Nope. Trump is not a socialist. Fascism is a form of socialism.
 
guno said:
The reactionary mob violence of late Reconstruction might be a good starting point, as my friend Baynard Woods argued in the Washington Post. Aggrieved white Americans were once again employing terror tactics to override the will of Black voters, and Sen. Ted Cruz had even invoked the explicitly racist Compromise of 1877 as precedent for throwing out election results.

There were echoes, too, of Germany’s Beer Hall Putsch, a horrifying if clownishly executed coup attempt that presaged the rise of the Third Reich. We could use the grim reminder that fascists rarely give up after a single setback.


This brings me to Bolivia, where the 2019 coup led by interim president Jeanine Áñez bore one striking similarity to the United States’ “Stop the Steal” movement: It had a strong current of support among Christians.

In November 2019, Áñez stood in Bolivia’s presidential palace grinning and clutching an enormous copy of the four Christian gospels. Right-wing nationalists had seized power after throwing out the results of an election that the incumbent socialist Evo Morales had won.

Signs of the cross were everywhere during the conservative ascent, from the numerous Bibles held aloft by the golpistas to the insignia of the fascist youth group led by Interim President Áñez’s ally, Luis Fernando Camacho.

“God has returned to the palace,” Camacho said. “To those who did not believe in this struggle I say God exists and is now going to govern Bolivia for all Bolivians!”
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You seem to be laboring ridiculously hard to support the conclusion you are trying to support by any means available.
 
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