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Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Gusto Anointing

Bonus Tracks
  • Earlier this year, Michele Bachmann announced(link is external) that Regent University’s Robertson School of Government, where she serves as dean, would be launching an online PhD program with the goal of graduating 100 PhDs who will then serve in government. On Tuesday, right-wing activist Cynthia Dunbar(link is external) announced(link is external) that she has been hired as a professor in the program.
  • Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on(link is external) the Christian nationalist "FlashPoint" program on Tuesday night.
  • Far-right activist John Guandolo attended an event(link is external) on Capitol Hill last week where he took a photo with Rep. Troy Nehls.
  • Jim Bakker claimed(link is external) that "when I was on television in the early years, we had the best relationship with the Black and White that I'd ever seen in America and now it's deteriorating." Bakker began broadcasting in 1966, which was not exactly(link is external) a time of universal racial harmony.
  • Kandiss Taylor asserted(link is external) that "our whole Constitution is founded on the word of God. That is facts." That is not, in fact, facts.
  • Finally, at an event in Colorado Monday, Lance Wallnau called on(link is external) audience members who are willing to run for or serve in office to come forward that so they could receive a "gusto anointing(link is external)" from his wife.