This fundamentally un-American idea has been going on for a long time, but it's disturbing seeing it grow and a party coming to embrace it.
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The election of Donald Trump intensified certain strains of Christian nationalism. He fanned fears of pluralism with Islamophobic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. He often invoked Christianity, albeit in terms that were largely about ethnic identity rather than faith. “The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is ‘Christian,’ because it means ‘people like us,’ it means white,” Samuel Perry, a sociologist at the University of Oklahoma and co-author of “Taking America Back For God,” told me. In 2019, Trump hosted Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister, at the White House, and praised him for building a border fence to keep immigrants out, saying, “You have been great with respect to Christian communities. You have really put a block up, and we appreciate that very much.
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on liz cheney
People lionizing Liz Cheney shows how far we've fallen. Articulating the bare minimum for a participatory democracy isn't leadership. We've fallen very far.
Doing something about it - probably building a new party - would be a sign of positive leadership. This has happened several times in American history.
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