White Xtian nationalism and the next wave of political violence
There was a brief period when Republicans appeared to reject Trumpism. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) condemned the insurrectionists as "terrorists, not patriots," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the seditionists were "fed lies" by President Trump. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) - one of only 10 Republican congresspeople to vote for impeachment - said Trump fomented the attack.
This short period of condemnation is now very clearly over. A recent poll found that two-thirds of Republicans do not think Joe Biden was legitimately elected president and nearly 40 percent believe that political violence is acceptable. And with all but six GOP senators saying that a non-sitting president cannot be impeached, the GOP is telling America - and the world - that violent Trumpism is who they are.
To understand how this happened we must look back to how it all began, namely as a long-term Republican strategy to harness the most violent expressions of Christian nationalism for the sake of political gain.
Images such as a flag that said "Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president" seem new, but this mix of white, right-wing identity politics and nationalist Christianity has been stirring for many years. It's hard to say exactly when this version of white supremacist Christianity - embedded within and supported by the Republican Party - began, but one important turning point was President Nixon's commitment to the GOP's Southern strategy to attract Dixiecrats disaffected by the Democratic Party's commitment to the civil rights movement.
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I used Xtian because Trump is the antithesis of what Jesus tought.
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