,
11 tweets,
5 min read
Read on Twitter
1/ The right to a free and fair vote in America might rest on this landmark court case theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
2/ Democrats need to understand that Republican elites believe the Democratic Party, DP voters, liberalism, let alone socialism, are all illegitimate. This view predates Trump by decades. You then need to factor in their underlying worldview, a biblical one at that.
3/ First, Democrats are considered to be satanic agents, thus anti-God. Second, they believe America is/was a Christian nation. Third, there is no separation of church & state because that specific phrase is not written in the Constitution. Fourth, the Constitution is a sacred
4/ document inspired by the Bible. Fifth, the Bible is the only basis for knowledge, philosophy, and morals, and all human thought must confirm to the Bible. And sixth, only a specific type of Christian is authorized to rule the major institutions of society because only they
5/ have a divine mandate for domination (dominionism) in the USA and globally. If you understand those six elements of their fundagelical worldview, and combine that with an understanding of the GOP base, and how the elites fire them up with FEAR and ANGER, then you understand
6/ American politics. Now, some of the financial elite are completely onboard with this Christian/GOP dominionism because that is their worldview. That includes the Kochs. And some of the financial elite are onboard because of tax cuts, less regulations, & the ability to plunder
7/ the American people and the federal government for profit. See The Predator State. For the religious aspect see @julieingersoll @profagagne @brucewilson @FredClarkson @cberlet . For the poli sci part see @NormOrnstein esp It's Worse Than It Looks. For the secular side see
8/ @wrappedinflag for how the John Birch Society fits into this. For a deeper dive on politics, see Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism book, and, Seymour Martin Lipset's The Politics of Unreason book. For a bit more update, see Grossman & Hopkins Asymmetric Politics. For the white
9/ nationalist segment see @DavidNeiwert @transform6789 @PRAEyesRight @EyesOnTheRight . looking at all the segments, you may find slightly different vocabulary. But the arc of the narrative is the same: the Democratic Party and its ideology and voters are illegitimate and
10/ existential threats, whether it is destroying free market capitalism, America the Christian nation, or the family. Trump is thus their champion, the outcome, not the cause. We must defeat the GOP at the polls and the Christian Right in the culture. And stop pretending that
11/ there was a golden age of modern politics before Trump that we can go back to. In the 1930s, this constellation of forces thought FDR was a communist; in the 1950s, Ike was a communist; in 1990s, Clinton was a murdering communist; in 2010s, Obama was a Muslim communist. Done.
