Meiselas notes that that Ken Klippenstein reports that "a 'Threat Screening Center' has been established in a secretive Northern Virginia office complex, just seven miles from CIA headquarters, to compile watchlists of Americans who meet these new 'terrorism indicators.' According to his reporting, staff there are analyzing social media posts, podcasts, and even public speeches to identify individuals considered 'anti-Christian' or 'anti-capitalist.'”
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"President Trump’s son Eric has provoked confusion and anger online from critics with comments on Tuesday painting his father’s movement as responsible for saving Christianity and religion in general, while claiming a divine hand led his father back to the White House."
~ Josh Marcus
"'We're saving Christianity. We've saving God,' Eric Trump said Tuesday on the Benny Show podcast. 'We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation.'"
This is not unrelated, of course, to the stepped-up attack on anyone remembering Charlie Kirk as he was and remembering exactly what he said and did. The idea that the Trumps are "saving God" is rich and ludicrous, given who they are. But a certain kind of religion has utilitarian value for fascists….
“Around 14 percent of the US population, nearly 50 million people, identify themselves as white evangelical Protestants. ‘Though [white evangelicals] make up just 14% of Americans overall, they remain the largest single religious group among Republican voters with the power to sway party priorities,’ noted reporter Becky Sullivan on NPR's Morning Edition."
~ Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (NY: Legacy, 2024), p. 15
"The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative. Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracy.”
~ Ibid.
#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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“Beyond our zealous faith, the other Great American preoccupation—the one we're most famous for, the one that makes our streets proverbially paved with gold unless proverbially paved with strip malls—is money.
It would be a great mistake to think that money and faith live in separate realms. Faith can be the biggest cash cow of them all.”
~ Ibid., p. 33
#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #capitalism #money #God
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