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28 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
”Observers commented on the jarring mixture of symbols: Christian crosses & Jesus Saves banners, Trump flags & American flags, fascist insignia & ‘Camp Auschwitz’. Some saw apples & oranges. But it was really a fruit cocktail: White Christian Nationalism.” nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opi…
What distinguishes Christian nationalism from traditional doctrine? ”Christian nationalists use a language of blood and apocalypse. They talk about blood conquest, blood sacrifice, and blood belonging, and also about cosmic battles between good and evil.” nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opi…
The American version of civil religion ”draws on the social justice tradition of Hebrew prophets, and the civic republican tradition… This tradition sees Christianity and democracy as potentially complementary, rather than inherently opposed.” nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opi…
”Christian nationalism is the pursuit of tribal power, not the common good; it is identity politics for right-wing (mostly white) Christians…it is an attitude of entitlement among Christians that we have a presumptive right to define what America is.” nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opi…
In 2019, Christians Against Christian Nationalism was formed. More than 16,000 signed a statement: ”Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy.” nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opi…
.@vladmedenica highlights related research that finds ”identification with QAnon, Christian nationalism, Donald Trump and anti-Semitism are tightly linked.”

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30 Jan
Striking how the outside-the-system vigilante wing of the far-right are being arrested and charged with serious crimes while inside-the-system elected officials who encouraged vigilante violence are living their best lives & have faced almost no social or political consequences.
What’s the professional price for endorsing violence against your political opponents and calling deadly school shootings ”‘false-flag’ operations”? A seat on the House education committee and continued support from many big donors. georgiarecorder.com/2021/01/28/big…
Drawing on research by @daschloz & @sam_rosenfeld, @ThePlumLineGS notes ”the GOP and conservative movement have allowed the boundary between fringe and mainstream to remain ‘porous’ going back through Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist crusades in the 1950s.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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28 Jan
”Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys are part of a trend of Far Right organizing that departs from explicitly White nationalist contemporaries, and often fuses antiracist language into otherwise nationalist, misogynistic, libertarian & xenophobic platforms.” escholarship.org/content/qt1q86…
”When asked to respond to antifascists’ charge that Patriot Prayer is racist, Joey Gibson, [who is Japanese-American] said, ‘Why is it we have way more [people] of color than they have?…I am darker than 90% of those people that are calling me a racist.‘” escholarship.org/content/qt1q86…
Some far-right groups are explicitly ”Aryan,” others ”align with White nationalist politics on some principles but embrace a broader notion of America-first nationalism, which doesn’t discriminate on race, as long as other far-right principles are shared.” escholarship.org/content/qt1q86…
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10 Jan
To make sense of the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol, many folks have analogized to military conflicts like the War of 1812. A better analogy is rooted in our long history of racial authoritarianism. This wasn’t war, this was a lynch mob. 1/ 👇🏽
Reuters News Pictures Editor @jimbourg tweeted “at least 3 different rioters at the Capitol say they hoped to find Vice President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor.” 2/ mediaite.com/news/trump-rio…
Elements of the mob were also clearly targeting Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. 3/
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9 Jan
Example of pattern @kathleen_belew details in superb book Bring the War Home: radicalized veterans become embedded in networks — often linked to white power movement — and take up arms against their own government. Expect more in days to come. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
How did Ashli Babbitt become radicalized?

“Over the past 5 years, a potent MAGA online subculture appears to have transformed this former Obama voter, who turned to Trump over a dislike of Hillary Clinton, into a QAnon follower ready to storm the Capitol” bellingcat.com/news/2021/01/0…
Military Times found ”More than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members say they have personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks recently.” militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-… via @bob_saccamanno
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8 Jan
In ”The conservative case for impeaching Trump now,” my colleague @kewhittington argues Trump’s offenses ”threaten the workings of American democracy. The president has, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, acted in grave ‘violation of some public trust.’” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
”Many will be tempted to just wait out Trump’s final days in office. But this week’s events demonstrate that he cannot be safely trusted to continue to exercise the powers of that office for even another week.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
”The 25th Amendment, which also allows for the removal of the president, is not the appropriate remedy, because the problem is not that the president is incapacitated. The problem is that he is a danger to the republic.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
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6 Jan
One way to make sense of the last 24 hours — the historic victories in Georgia and pro-Trump siege on the Capitol — is as a long-run contest between two American traditions: one committed to preserving the status quo racial hierarchy and one fighting to advance equality. 🧵 1/
This framework comes from an influential paper, “Racial Orders in American Political Development,” in which scholars Desmond King & Rogers Smith identify two governing coalitions, a ”white supremacist” order and a ”transformative egalitarian” order. 2/ jstor.org/stable/pdf/300…
In short, while African Americans were enslaved and indigenous folks were dispossessed of their land, the white supremacist coalition ruled. With the Civil War and Reconstruction, the egalitarian coalition briefly prevailed. 3/
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