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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Regarding Sen. Lee and democracy.

Unholy, pp. 237-38:
The throughline of Unholy is that the Christian Right, white nationalists, the GOP, and the rest of Trump’s base share a hostility to democracy, its institutions, and its values like a free press, independent judiciary, and human rights and dignity.
That’s how high the stakes are for this election.
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via new piece from me, @RollingStone, @typeinvestigate

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Read more, not just about Barrett, but about Trump judges' assault on LGBTQ rights via promotion of "religious freedom." New piece published today:

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I am waiting very patiently for my inbox to fill up with outraged statements from religious right organizations about this development.
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Can we have a conversation (i.e., a thread) about Trump's tweet falsely claiming that Democrats want to "shut your churches down, permanently"? 1/x
This false claim--that Democrats are anti-religion, and in particular, anti-Christian--has been baked into the Christian right ideology for decades.

Trump has just weaponized it in new ways. 2/x
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20 Dec 19
I'm still amazed the "Putin told me" story doesn't seem to be setting off more alarms. Have we just come to expect, shrug, that Trump reportedly admitted this?

But see also, from the same piece. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
That's right, not only has Trump reportedly admitted that Putin told him the conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in '16, not Russia, contrary to conclusions of US intelligence, which Trump refuses to believe.
On top of that, US intelligence knows Russian propagandists are ongoing with their effort to spread this disinformation among the American public, and are *celebrating* the traction it has gotten with conservative organizations--which are, presumably, supporting Trump's reelex.
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19 Dec 19
THREAD:

1. Let's have some real talk about the CT editorial.

I understand the site has crashed.

But it doesn't mean Trump's evangelical support has imploded. AT ALL.
2. I've spent the better part of the last four years reporting on Trump's evangelical support--and why Trump's white evangelical supporters won out over the never Trumpers.

The result: a book, which you will be able to read next year.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605774/u…
3. In the meantime, just today, with @typeinvestigate and @HuffPost, we published this piece about why white evangelicals remain a crucial base of support and defense for Trump in the face of impeachment.

Read the whole thing here:

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