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13 Jun, 11 tweets, 6 min read
It’s worth noting that the “conservative” takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention occurred around the same time as the NRA “conservative” takeover (1977) - and also when the CNP/evangelical movement attached itself to the GOP.

Interlocking movements.

msn.com/en-us/news/us/…
For those not familiar with the 1977 “coup” in the NRA, it’s an important story that everyone should understand.

It has had a profound influence on American life and our political landscape.

washingtonpost.com/politics/how-n…
The organizations that have been working to overturn the 2020 election, that have been writing the GOP laws to prevent Democrats from winning elections - ALEC, Heritage, and the CNP - were created and bolted on to the Republican Party around the same time.
Roger Stone started working with the Republican Party in the Nixon era.
After Watergate damaged the GOP’s credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of the public, they were facing the harsh prospect of spending years in the political wilderness.

This led to their further embrace of destructive elements and ideologies, to help them win elections.
The fervently ideological, anti-federal government sentiment, couched in anti-communist language that we see today, has roots that stretch back before the John Birch movement in the 50s.

But in 1980, those ideas found a powerful voice; they went mainstream.
President Reagan has an extremely popular legacy, and criticisms of his Presidency evoke strong emotional reactions.

But if we truly want to understand the current state of American life and politics, we have to be willing to look at things with fresh eyes, in hindsight.
Because all of these laws, policies, and influences have been building on each other for decades, enabling further captures of institutions.

We can’t truly halt this pattern of capture and erosion unless we recognize the flawed ideas that enable it and give it public support.
We also have to keep a laser focus on the long term; this is a marathon, and not a sprint.

There have been recent disappointments with Dem lawmakers and even the Biden admin itself - but we have to see these as hurdles instead of roadblocks, and avoid despair.
The opponents of democracy think in the long term, and the best they can hope for is to divide and distract us from pursuing important issues.

In the last year, we’ve come a long way toward uniting & recognizing the threat.

Let’s keep our eyes on the future we need to create.
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Finding permanent and universal causes for bad events, along with temporary and specific causes of good events, is the practice of despair.

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12 Jun
AZ State Senator Wendy Rogers is also a member of the Oath Keepers:

american-ledger.com/public-safety/…

When will the press say it plainly?

The Republican Party itself - not “Trumpism - represents an insurgency against the US Government.
Yes, I’m aware that her threat is empty and laughable.

What isn’t laughable though, is that essentially every radicalized, anti-government extremist movement in the country has consolidated under the GOP and in a very real sense captured it.
Mitch McConnell - the leader of the Republican Party in the US Senate - is actively attempting to block a public investigation into these groups and their involvement in the insurrection, because the GOP doesn’t want the public to know about its connections to these groups.
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11 Jun
During the 2018 midterms, Turning Point USA’s troll farm, Rally Forge, set up a fake progressive group on Facebook to convince leftwing voters in key races to support the Green Party.

Facebook knew, and did nothing until after the election.

theguardian.com/technology/202…
Facebook allows right wing group to pretend to be leftists to split the Dem vote.

Member of the group to FEC: ‘Gee, I’m just new, I didn’t know about these laws.’

Trump’s FEC: ‘We won’t pursue this. How *dare* you ask us to.’

6 months later, group admits it used Rally Forge.
Trump’s FEC Commissioner James “Trey” Trainor, literally scolded the watchdog group for bringing the case to the FEC, and somehow asserted that “APN was established by an unsophisticated individual trying to show his support for several third party candidates.”

(Not true)
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9 Jun
Remember, Trump waged a war on oversight, firing multiple Inspectors General, and replacing them with loyalists.

Today’s report that whitewashes Trump’s photo op at the church was written by one of Trump’s appointees.

Allowing them to stay does not protect our institutions.
We do not need Trump loyalists in government making policy recommendations.

Allowing them to remain does not strengthen our institutions, or public confidence in the same.

On the contrary, it weakens them.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/polic…
Protecting and restoring faith in our institutions is exactly what we need to be doing right now.

But a fear of accusations of ‘partisanship’ can also be exploited by bad faith actors in ways that actively do the opposite.

The narrative war has not stopped.
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8 Jun
Heritage and ALEC have been working, together, to write the archaic voter suppression laws that are being passed by Republican legislatures in Georgia, Texas, and other states.

Both of those organizations were founded by Paul Weyrich.

This has been the GOP's DNA for decades.
Weyrich is also the reason that abortion was weaponized as a political wedge, to consolidate evangelical voters under the Republican Party - and, originally to deny Jimmy Carter a second term.

Weyrich was a Christian activist.

In 1981, after working to elect Reagan with the evangelical vote, he founded the CNP with Rev. Tim LaHaye - an evangelical preacher, head of the "Moral Majority," and author of the rapturous Left Behind series.

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8 Jun
McConnell had GOP Senators sanitize the insurrection report that was released today, censoring the word “insurrection,” and omitting Trump’s role.

Now he claims that we need reports like this instead of a full investigation.

Mitch is the getaway driver for the insurrectionists.
Thread/article on the ways in which the Senate Rules report was sanitized, in order to get Republicans to sign it:
I am not trying to imply that they will get away with it.

This is just further evidence (if we needed any more) for why Dems need to drop all of the bipartisanship efforts on a commission, and create a Select Committee to investigate the insurrectikn, sooner rather than later.
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8 Jun
The only question that should be asked of Joe Manchin at this point is:

“Senator, who exactly are you representing?”
Remember, on a private call with Republicans about HR-1, Koch’s Research Director said “there’s a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.”

And so he said they would need to use “under-the-dome-type strategies” to stop it.
Heritage wrote many of the voter suppression laws passed in GOP states, then waged influence campaigns.

Jessica Anderson, of Heritage Action (at 19:45):

“We’ve hosted events in West Virginia, to go after, and have a little fun with, Senator Manchin.”

vimeo.com/549310910
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