- Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Five Christian Nationalist Action Items for Trump’s Next Term
Over the last few months leading up to the election, I’ve been writing about an ascendant fundamentalist religious movement whose leaders believe that the United States is a Christian nation, that the Constitution is based on the Bible, and that Christians are called to take over the government. These figures have found a powerful ally in President-elect Donald Trump.
- Molly Olmstead @ Slate: The Christian “Prophets” Who Said God Would Put Trump Back in Office Are Beyond Excited
In 2020 it seemed that a message from God had gotten garbled. That is, at least, if you were listening to some of the Christian MAGA figures who foretold Trump’s sweeping victory that year, claiming that they had received divine messages from God about it.
- Art Jipson @ Slate: New Apostolic Reformation Evangelicals See Trump As God’s Warrior In Their Battle To Christianize America
A growing movement believes President-elect Donald Trump is fighting a spiritual war against demonic forces within the United States. Trump himself stated in his acceptance speech on Nov. 6, 2024, that the reason that “God spared my life” was to “restore America to greatness.”
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Scandal-prone Baptist pastor Mark Harris wins seat in Congress
With Republicans on the verge of a governing trifecta, one of the Republicans who will soon have the power to write laws is Mark Harris, a freshman House member from North Carolina who believes being gay is a “choice” and that the only role a woman should have is “helper” to her husband.
- Will Neal @ The Daily Beast: Alex Jones Says InfoWars May Soon Be Finally Shut Down
A glimmer of good news amid all the doom, Alex Jones’ reign of online terror may soon be over with a court-mandated auction to sell off his assets now fast approaching.
- Alice Miranda Ollstein @ Politico: Abortion opponents prepare to undermine just-passed ballot measures
Anti-abortion groups on Tuesday unveiled their “Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap,” an effort to chip away at federal and state access, including in nearly a dozen states that enshrined protections through ballot measures over the last two years.
- Christopher Mathias @ HuffPost: He Went To A White Supremacist Event. Now He’ll Oversee Trump’s Mass Deportations
Tapping [Tom] Homan for this role signals that Trump is aiming to fulfill his horrifying campaign promise to mass deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. Trump campaigned on fascist rhetoric, arguing that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country and portraying them as inherently criminal or savage — like when he pushed the lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating their neighbors’ pets.
