Right Wing Round-Up: So God Made Trump

  • Colby Hall @ Mediaite: Trump Shares Messianic Video About God Sending Him To Save World.
  • On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his plan Paradise, and said, I need a caretaker. So God gave us Trump.

  • Chauncey DeVega @ Salon: How Christofascists became the heart of the MAGA movement.
  • Joyce highlights the central role of the Christian right in the rise of Trumpism and neofascism and the types of institutions and knowledge-production the larger right-wing has built and engaged in to create and sustain their movement to end multiracial secular democracy.

  • Jared Stacy and Andrew Whitehead @ Time: How We Can Confront the Myths of January 6 and Intensifying Christian Nationalism.
  • As the nation marks the third anniversary of the January 6 attacks, new research suggests Trump’s increasingly brazen authoritarianism is in step with intensifying Christian nationalism among parts of the American public.

  • Angry White Men: Anna Perez: ‘If Europeans Had Not Conquered America, We’d Still Be Living In Tepees.’
  • On the Jan. 3, 2024 episode of her Rumble show, Wrongthink Primetime, racist conspiracy theorist Anna Perez doubled down on white nationalist rhetoric.

  • Troy Matthews @ MeidasTouch: Propagandist Behind CRT Myth Admits He Intentionally Targeted Harvard President.
  • Right-Wing fake journalist Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, has repeatedly admitted the removal of Harvard President Claudine Gay was the result of a coordinated effort on his part to topple a prominent Black university president in a larger quest to destroy American diversity.

  • Jonathan Lemire @ Politico: Biden blasts Trump as a ‘despicable’ danger to democracy.
  • President Joe Biden on Friday declared that defending democracy from the extremist forces that fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection three years ago was the nation’s “sacred cause,” one that would be at the heart of his reelection bid.

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