With a heaping helping of retribution
Gov. Tim Walz (D) of Minnesota on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning gave a tight “elevator speech” contrasting Democrats’ approach as caretakers of these United States versus the grievance and retribution agenda of a second Trump administration (transcribed so you don’t miss any of it in the X condensation):
You’re seeing the contrast in this when you get a Democratic governor versus a Republican governor. We don’t have the Ten Commandments posted in our classrooms, but we have free breakfast and lunch. Those are policies that the Biden-Harris administration are talking about going nationally. It makes a huge difference. We use what we learned during the pandemic on the child tax credit. Minnesota’s going to reduce childhood poverty by a third. We already have one of the lowest numbers. Those are things that make a real difference in people’s lives, money back in the pockets of the middle class, policies that are making a difference in our schools. There’s a big contrast. What do you hear from the Trump administration other than grievance, retribution? “Esteemed epidemiologist” Donald Trump did nothing during COVID. Now he’s going to solve the Middle East crisis and climate change on the first day? Immigration? Not going to happen.
It’s not the first time you’ve seen twisted souls reject partaking in the fruits of this country’s bounty rather than share them with people they hate, even if it means their own children go without.
Trump and MAGA Republicans don’t want to govern. They want to rule. They don’t want Americans to flourish. They want the “wrong” kind to shut up, obey, and remain marginalized. They serve up grievance and retribution neither they nor their children can eat.
If you cannot read Project 2025’s 900 pages, listen to John Oliver’s 25-minute summary.
Listen to Mark Robinson, North Carolina Republican candidate for governor in 2024, scream, “Christian patriots of this nation will own this nation and rule this nation.” Share the video.
Check out this condensed quote from Stephen Wolfe’s “The Case for Christian Nationalism“: “The issue here centers on whether a Christian minority can establish a political state over the whole without the positive consent of the whole. I affirm they can. … Non-Christians living among us … are not entitled to political equality, nor do they have a right to deny the people of God their right to order civil institutions to God and to their complete good. … The Christian’s posture toward the earth ought to be that it is ours, not theirs, for we are co-heirs in Christ.”
One reviewer described the Christian nationalist project as “being for your own people-group, and keeping your people-group distinct from other people-groups,” calling it a “segregationist” policy and “sacralized white supremacy.”
The ideas behind Project 2025 and Christian nationalism are as old as feudalism and just as irredeemably un-American.
We can choose that or choose an America where schoolchildren have enough to eat and the opportunity to flourish, an America where freedom means freedom, not enforced religious conformity.
A yard sign I passed yesterday while canvassing read, “Dictatorship or Democracy. Choose wisely.”
Update: Had to add the image from this church tweet. It fits.
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