“bug-eyed fascist ideologues”
We’ve warned plenty here about Christian nationalism, the New Apostolic Reformation, and the Seven Mountains mandate. Considering the Second Coming of Trump already features cabinet nominees associated with efforts to turn our democracy into a theocracy (what’s the big deal about swapping out two letters?), it’s time for another look. Amanda Marcotte this morning offers a hair-raising glimpse at Salon.
“You think you ‘know’ what’s in it,” Marcotte introduces it on Bluesky, “but I promise it’s much crazier. I went deep in the research on this. Lots of quotes from Christian nationalists Trump has appointed, and experts.”
Plenty of those, but some key points before you click over to read the whole thing:
- “the Christian nationalist movement … believes the purpose of the U.S. government should be to enforce far-right Christianity on not just Americans, but the whole world“
- “the plan was always to reduce Congress to a ceremonial body and concentrate all the power in the hands of the president [committed to enforcing] a “biblical worldview” by fiat”
- Russell Vought, Trump’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), “argues that the law or separation of powers should not constrain him and the president, because this is a ‘post-constitutional moment'”
- Vought aims to make the lives of civil servants so miserable “that they are ‘traumatically affected’ and forced to quit…. He plans to refill those jobs with Christian nationalists.”
- Trump’s Christian nationalist enablers plan “to replace respectable civil servants with bug-eyed fascist ideologues who oppose the most basic values of our country, such as religious freedom, equal justice, and democracy.”
Just because we’ve heard this all before does not mean they are any less of a threat this time around. Believe them the first time. They don’t want to govern; they want to rule. The oligarchs behind Trump are in it for more money and power and because they are Randian adolescents. The Christian nationalists are after dominance with a capital “D.”