White Christian nationalists are poised to remake America in their image during Trump’s second term,

Guno צְבִי said:
There’s an image that captures the threat posed by the White Christian nationalist movement — and how it could become even more dangerous over the next four years.

Taken during the Jan. 6 insurrection, the photo shows a solitary White man, his head pressed in prayer against a massive wooden cross, facing the domed US Capitol building. An American flag stands like a sentinel on a flagpole beside the Capitol under an ominously gray sky.

The photograph depicts a foot soldier in an insurgent religious movement trying to storm the halls of American power. What’s unsettling about the photo four years later is that much of the religious zeal that fed the insurrection is no longer outside the gates of power. Many of that movement’s followers are now on the inside, because their Chosen One, Donald Trump, returns this month to the Oval Office.


This is the scenario Americans could face in Trump’s second term. Under Trump, Christian nationalists will have unprecedented access to the power of the federal government. Trump’s GOP has unified control of Congress. And a conservative supermajority, which has already blurred the line between separation of church and state in a series of decisions favoring Christian interests, controls the US Supreme Court.

Trump has not been shy about what comes next. He ran a presidential campaign that was infused with White Christian Nationalist imagery and rhetoric. He vowed in an October campaign speech to set up a task force to root out “anti-Christian bias” and restore preachers’ power in America while giving access to a group he calls “my beautiful Christians.”

“If I get in, you’re going to be using that power at a level that you’ve never used before,” Trump told an annual gathering of National Religious Broadcasters in Tennessee during a campaign stop earlier this year.


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White Christian nationalists are poised to remake America in their image during Trump’s second term, author says

Donald Trump’s second term will empower the White Christian nationalist movement, says scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of “Jesus and John Wayne.” “It will transform our government,” she says. “They have seen their movement go mainstream, and now they have incredible access to power.”
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If they were Jews you would have no objection.
 
Hume said:
If they were Jews you would have no objection.
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Ahh, but the aforementioned christo-fascist jackasses have been braying for decades that Jewish folk are secretly running America. Are you now saying that is not the case? And if so, how on Earth do you defend the actions of these christo-fascist cretins?
 
Taichiliberal said:
Ahh, but the aforementioned christo-fascist jackasses have been braying for decades that Jewish folk are secretly running America. Are you now saying that is not the case? And if so, how on Earth do you defend the actions of these christo-fascist cretins?
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Have they, sex pest? Who has, supposedly? Name names.
 
Margot said:
Flunked history I see!
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Were you looking in a mirror?

The antebellum South was solidly Democrat. Before the American Civil War, the Democrat Party was the dominant political force in the Southern states. This was largely because the party supported states' rights, including the right to maintain slavery, which was a critical issue for the Southern economy and social structure at the time. The Republican Party, which formed in the 1850s and opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories, had virtually no support in the South during this period.

This political alignment shifted dramatically after the Civil War and Reconstruction, but in the antebellum era, the South was indeed a stronghold for the Democrat Party.


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