William Lindsey :toad:
I'm reading A.R. Moxon's new book Very Fine People: Confessions of an American Fool (Grand Rapids: J. Goat Press, 2024). His comments on why he wrote the book:
“I wrote all the words you’ll find between these covers sometime between December 2016 and early 2023. Most were written after August 2017, which was a key date in my rapidly dawning awareness of the true nature of my country."
#ARMoxon #Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #Nazis
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William Lindsey :toad:
August 2017 is when tiki-torch waving Nazis invaded Charlottesville, Virginia, in defense of treasonous confederate slaveholders and their own perceived supremacy. We know they were Nazis because they were chanting ‘Jews will not replace us,’ and ‘blood and soil,’ and all the other Nazi hits, and because they believed in Nazi causes and utilized Nazi symbology, and so on."
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William Lindsey :toad:
It made me believe that white supremacy was defeated, specifically by people such as us.
And so I am a fool” (p. 14).
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William Lindsey :toad:
“I want to be sure you know, in case you didn’t grow up among white Christian evangelical conservative Americans, as I did, that most of us aren’t pretending. We really are very nice, very kind, very generous. We are, by these and other measures, very fine people.
This made me think that fascism would be unpopular, particularly with people such as us."
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William Lindsey :toad:
“In August 2017, the White Christian president, like all cheap hucksters, knew quite well which lies people would believe, knew quite well what lies his people wanted to hear, and knew quite well the lies they depended on for fortune and identity.
So he told the lie of the very fine people.
It’s a popular lie. It’s a traditional lie.
For most of my life, to one extent or another, I believed it.
And so I am a fool” (p. 13).
#ARMoxon #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism
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William Lindsey :toad:
“Nazis and Confederates and Christian nationalists and other authoritarian supremacists only ever rise on the permissive shoulders of masses of very fine people willing to lend their moral authority to a monstrous cause—yes, and their energy, too, and their normalcy and niceness and well-scrubbed politeness," (continued in /6)
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William Lindsey :toad:
"and their deliberate unawareness as regards the methods and intentions of those with whom they march, and yes, their Christianity, too—because how could a religious person ever support atrocity if they did so out of a religious conviction? Their very fine presence in solidarity with monsters defends and enables the monstrousness” (pp. 12-3).
#ARMoxon #Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #Nazis
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William Lindsey :toad:
"and overwhelmingly identify as a specific thing known as ‘Christian,’ and the White Christian president made quite a show over the years of representing U.S. citizens exclusively based on whether or not they support him” (p. 11).
#ARMoxon #Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #Nazis
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William Lindsey :toad:
"August 2017 was also when the White Christian president defended those who marched with the Nazis as ‘very fine people.’ I call him ‘the White Christian president’ because the people who support him are overwhelmingly understood to be a specific thing known as ‘white,’" (continued in /4)
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