Thread by @PRRIpoll

1/ THREAD:
"[White Christian nationalism] is a violent reclamation movement. If we’re going to move into the promise of a multi-religious, multi-ethnic democracy, these forces are going to have to be confronted.”
-@robertpjones
New @ThePlumLineGS
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@robertpjones @ThePlumLineGS 2/ "The evidence for white Christian nationalism’s importance to the effort to overthrow the election was right before our eyes on Jan. 6. It brought a veneer of divine blessing on the violence and the insurrection.”
-@robertpjones
New @ThePlumLineGS
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@robertpjones @ThePlumLineGS 3/ PRRI CEO @robertpjones wrote abt the importance of paying attention to the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Jan. 6 insurrection at @RNS on Jan. 7.
#RNA2022
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@robertpjones @ThePlumLineGS @RNS 4/ For a deeper dive on the long shadow cast by white Christian nationalism at the Jan. 6 insurrection, see the Afterword to the paperback edition of @robertpjones’s #WhiteTooLong, which won a 2021 American Book Award.
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@robertpjones @ThePlumLineGS @RNS 5/ NEW CHART: Correlations b/t white Christian nationalism & political violence:
Those who affirm WCN are nearly 4x as likely as others to say political violence may be necessary to save the country.
Cc: @ThePlumLineGS

6/ Impt from @sarahposner to @ThePlumLineGS: Christian right activists developed a “bellicose Christian narrative in defense of Trump’s coup attempt,” investing it with Biblical significance and casting it as “holy war against an illegitimate state.”
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