During her confirmation hearings for the 7th Circuit, Amy Coney Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "I don't know what all of ADF's policy positions are."
Four more years of Trump + a Republican Senate could be catastrophic for gains made for civil rights for LGBTQ people, plus others, like religious minorities, harmed by these radical reinterpretations of religious freedom.
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.
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
The pandemic is another weapon for them in their arsenal to attack Democrats as anti-Christian. There are dozens of lawsuits across the country (some joined by DOJ, led by Barr, who has made clear his antipathy to what he calls "militant secularists." 3/x
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?
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.
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.
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.