What's known as American conservatism is mostly rural white cultural sensibilities that have been marketed as a political philosophy. This is nowhere more evident than the many children's books that have been published to fulfill a supposed need for "godly" kid-lit.
A few more. Please note that these are all real and that I've provided only a small sampling here.
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Still more. You'll notice that Rush Limbaugh has an entire series of kids' books.
The content of some of the books is terrible as well. The "Pepe and Pede" book is anti-Muslim propaganda and promotes white nationalist themes. It was written by a (since-fired) junior high assistant principal vice.com/en/article/vbb…
And then there's the author of the Donald the Caveman series, Trumpvangelical radio host Eric Metaxas.
He hosted Alex Jones and other crazies to call for a coup against the election and has said he'd be "happy to die" for Trump religionnews.com/2020/11/30/eri…
This is cultic politics, something you dedicate your entire life to, & the lives of your children, whether they want it or not.
Adults listen to Rush at work, the kids homeschool and read My Parents Open Carry, & everyone gathers round at night for Carlson, Ingraham, and OAN.
Via @tina_nguyen, here's another addition to this thread. Mike Huckabee has decided to get into the kiddie Trump worship business.
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Here is Charlie Kirk fantasizing about having children watch public executions and having them be turned into something like sporting events
Republican leaders spew violent rhetoric that is nothing remotely close to what their Democratic counterparts say.
Right-wingers have to resort to posting of rando leftwingers calling for violence. Meanwhile, Trump's top advisors like Steve Bannon call for political executions.
During the George Floyd protest, a Minneapolis police station that was shot at. Left leaning demonstrators were blamed for it, but the actual shooter was a right wing extremist. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
The Charlie Kirk shooting person of interest sure looks like a far right person.
It's irresponsible for Republicans to make explicit claims about the shooter until he is apprehended and his background information is released.
Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering a San Francisco police officer at a BLM protest in 2020.
He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. The right loves pretending to be the left. apnews.com/article/us-air…
3/ For years, QAnon and its spinoffs have painted Democrats as part of a secret pedophile cabal. Yet the most documented religious abuse scandals happen within conservative religious denominations.
Data shows 67% of politicians accused of child sex crimes are Republicans.
Flashback lol of the day: Trump's top tariff adviser Peter Navarro made up a LARP of himself named "Ron Vara" which he repeatedly quoted in multiple books.
He even gave himself fictionalized biographical details, including being an Iraq war veteran. cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
Peter Navarro is such a crackpot that he has to literally invent economists who agree with him because everyone thinks he's insane.
This is who Donald Trump thinks is smart.
And btw, after Navarro was exposed for citing a fictionalized version of himself, he went and did it again, making up an email address for Ron Vara and circulating a memo during the first Trump term nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/…