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   br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 02:09:06 JST br00t4c

   The Most Under-Covered Story of 2024: Trump and Right-Wing Extremism

   #davidcorn #trump

   https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/donald-trump-turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk-right-wing-extremism-our-land-david-corn/

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:41 JST Marv Clowder

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     ...And then there’s Doug Wilson.

     Wilson is a leading Christian nationalist on the right. In a 1996 monograph titled “Southern Slavery, As It Was” that he co-wrote, he observed, “Slavery as it existed in the South…was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.”

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:42 JST Marv Clowder

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     A month after the “People’s Convention,” Kirk’s Turning Point USA is holding “The Believers Summit” in West Palm Beach, Florida, not far from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. Its aim is to deploy “biblical truths” to “counteract ‘woke’ narratives” and “to facilitate a God-breathed transformation in our nation.”

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:42 JST Marv Clowder

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     Speakers include David Barton, who, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, has “long promoted the idea, now widely popular among the religious right, that the Founding Fathers never intended the separation of church and state but instead sought to construct a Christian nation.”

     Bill repeated this.
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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:43 JST Marv Clowder

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     Trump is scheduled to appear this week at the so-called “People’s Convention,” a conference organized by Turning Point Action, a political action committee headed by Trump sycophant Charlie Kirk, who has recently come under fire for a series of racist remarks.

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:44 JST Marv Clowder

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     Take Project 2025, the operation organized by the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing think tanks to develop a far-reaching agenda for a second Trump term that would grant him expanded powers to run an authoritarian-ish government in which he could order the prosecutions of his foes and critics and demand loyalty oaths from federal workers.

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     A recent poll found that 76 percent of voters said they had heard “a little” or “nothing” about Project 2025.

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:44 JST Marv Clowder

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     On Saturday, the Washington Post ran a piece on Russ Vought, a Christian nationalist who was budget chief when Trump was in the White House and who’s now a major player behind Project 2025. He’s in line to be Trump’s chief of staff, should the convicted felon return to power.

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:45 JST Marv Clowder

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     "One of the most under-covered stories of the Trump era and the 2024 presidential campaign is Donald Trump’s relationship with far-right extremism. This has been going on for years. During the 2016 race, he hobnobbed with and praised conspiracy-monger Alex Jones and encouraged anti-Muslim hatred. A few months into his presidency, Trump hailed participants in the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville as “very fine people...”

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:01:45 JST Marv Clowder

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     "...The insurrectionists who stormed Capitol Hill on January 6 for Trump included Christian nationalists, members of right-wing militias, white supremacists, Confederate flag wavers, neo-Nazis, and others. In 2022, he supped with antisemite Kanye West and Hitler fanboy Nick Fuentes. He has repeatedly winked and nodded at the unhinged QAnon movement."

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 03:39:16 JST Marv Clowder

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     His publishing house published a book in 2023 that, as Reason magazine put it, “advocates an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a ‘Christian prince’ with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.

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     Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 03:39:16 JST Marv Clowder

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     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/donald-trump-turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk-right-wing-extremism-our-land-david-corn/

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     Beachbum (beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 03:39:58 JST Beachbum

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     @MarvClowder The guys gotta have a brain tumor or something.

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     br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 03:39:58 JST br00t4c

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     @Beachbum @MarvClowder His head is the size of a largeish melon... there's gotta be *something* in there.