As Dean Obeidallah explained earlier this year after the MAGA/QAnon violent seditious insurrection on January 6, The GOP was sowing seeds of fascism and violence long before Trump: “Fascism” is a word we tend to throw around often, and often with little regard to its true definition. But in the case of President Donald Trump … Read more
Frank Schaeffer is the son of the theologian and author Francis Schaeffer, and together they helped found the so-called “pro-life” movement. Frank Schaeffer has spent most of his adult life regretting his role in the Christian Right movement, and as he says “repenting” for his actions by exposing the threat to America from the Christian … Read more
The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Mitch McConnell’s decade long corrupt effort to pack the federal courts with right-wing political activist judges to protect GQP minority rule, has come to full fruition. I have previously explained the corrupt “Texas Pipeline” of politically motivated lawsuits. Republicans have packed the federal courts in Texas with right-wing political activist … Read more
The January 6 MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection at the Capitol more particularly was a white Christian Nationalist seditious insurrection. Thomas Edsall of the New York Times wrote in January ‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’ (excerpt): It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that … Read more
Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more