As Midterms Loom, Right Wingers Are Revving Up the Faithful with Talk of Religion and Guns

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NEW: Extremism experts warn that a new crop of ideologues using voter fraud conspiracy theories and religious appeals are pushing their followers toward armed rebellion.

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As Midterms Loom, Right Wingers Are Revving Up the Faithful with Talk of Religion and Guns
Extremism experts warn that a new crop of ideologues using voter fraud conspiracy theories and religious appeals are pushing their followers toward armed rebellion.
5:14 AM · Sep 19, 2022

https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/christian-nationalism-guns-election/


After the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on August 9 as part of an investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents, right-wing candidates for state office across the country took to their fringe social media pages. They posted that the federal government needs to be reined in and even called for the FBI to be abolished.

Kari Lake, a gubernatorial candidate in Arizona who won the GOP primary in August after being endorsed by Trump, issued a statement on Telegram and TruthSocial, Trump’s new social media platform, calling the federal government “tyrants” and an “illegitimate, corrupt Regime” that hates America. “If we accept it, America is dead,” Lake wrote. “We will not accept it.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray called the surge in death threats to law enforcement “deplorable and dangerous.” Two days later, Ricky Shiffer, a 42-year-old Navy veteran, attempted to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati and was shot and killed by police after an hours-long standoff. Only four days after Shiffer’s attack in Cincinnati, NBC reported that a man in Pennsylvania was arrested for making threats against the FBI on the far-right social media site Gab.

GOP candidates in Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, among a slew of others, are major influencers in this fringe ecosystem. And they are making connections between the 2020 election — which they claim was stolen — Christian nationalism, and gun rights.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. NatCs, Nazis, Republicans, fascists, conservative evangelicals -- all synonymous

[DFW]

3. What a picture

I had been wondering where Spragg had gone.

(Ref: Journey into Mystery #68)

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. It's strange how self-proclaimed "patriots" fly flags of enemies of the U.S.

[DFW]

5. No one demonstrates that better than the Trumpanzees, themselves

And it wasn't that one idiot with the Russian flag. They were ALL carrying them:

[MissMillie]

6. The results of believing a known liar

All of it--ALL OF IT--stems from the lie that TFG was the victim of a stolen election.

The man has NEVER given anyone any reason to believe ANYTHING that comes out of his mouth, yet the cult takes up his cause.

[FakeNoose]

7. I'll be happy when they finally "rev down" a bit

The increasing level of craziness has been unbelievable for the past 6 years.



Even after he's finally gone, the crazy followers will still be here.