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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:37 PM Aug 2025

The Men Working to Transform the United States into Gilead [View all]

A retweet endorsed by Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s idea of an ideal Secretary of Defense, made of a CNN report, “Inside one pastor’s crusade for Christian domination in the age of Trump,” is receiving quite a bit of attention, as well it should.

Declarations from right-wing “Christian” Idaho pastor Doug Wilson and his followers made in the piece by investigative journalist Pamela Brown include that “women should not be allowed to vote “as individuals.” Rather, households would cast a vote and, since the man is the head of the household and his wife should willingly submit to him, the vote is his. So too, of course, is she. The 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands.

Hegseth shared the post and added, “All of Christ for All of Life.” So far as we know, he was not drunk, but in fact everything that Doug Wilson stands for would be more accurately described as “Nothing of Christ for Any of Life.”




In a way, Hegseth performed a public service by bringing to wider attention the “Christian nationalist” movement that is gaining strength and has much support in the Trump Cult. As the title of the CNN report indicates, it seeks “Christian” domination of America. All of us need to know what they mean by that. Pastor Wilson is a flat-out nutter who envisions an America that is a “Christian nation” the way Saudi Arabia is an “Islamic nation.” The ultimate goal is replacing secular democracy with a government ruled by “Christ the King.” Jesus presumably being unavailable for such a role that rejects his most important teachings, it would mean “Donald the King” or perhaps “Doug the King.”

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