It's NEVER been hard to be a christian in America. There's a church on every corner. You want hard? Try growing up in a fundamentalist christian family. Or being a gay or trans person in America. Or Muslim. Or a woman. The GOP is weaponizing a victimhood mindset for its base. 
A foundational frame of male, white and christian supremacy is the victimhood mindset. Extremist groups always begin with that frame: "We are being erased, oppressed, abused." Seeing themselves as victims grants extremists the the right to do violence against outside groups.
The victimhood frame grants supremacists the right to do violence against those they subjugate. The victimhood frame is starkly visible in the language of domestic abusers, who, as they do violence against women/children, say "Look what you made me do."
Millions of Christians are caring, kind people who support a diverse inclusive United States. Christian extremists know this. But the GOP and their extremist base continue to recruit using the victimhood frame because it is foundational to weaponizing their base. #BlueWave2022
Violent extremism is born out of generational trauma, of being raised in a culture of violence and dominance. Instead of offering traumatized people mitigation, support, and healing, the GOP is operationalizing more generational trauma to advance it's extremist political goals.
This is the fundamental mechanism of the GOP's white, male and religious supremacist downward spiral. They leverage political, physical violence to traumatize larger and larger populations, leaving them susceptible to recruitment by the very groups that inflicted their trauma.
This is why GOP is institutionalizing forced birth, making abortion illegal. Being pregnant in America increases domestic violence and murder against women. This is GOP shock and awe. They're not ignorant of the increased violence against pregnant women. They're counting on it.
The violence against those forced to give birth is dramatically higher for BIPOC communities, for the poor. These outcomes have nothing to do with Christ's teachings nor with "saving babies." It is white, male and christian supremacist violence designed to create systemic trauma.
Huge #BlueWave2022 is our ONLY way out of the GOP's imminent overthrow of US democratic institutions via what @SenWhitehouse calls "dark money captured Supreme Court." If we lose, look to the GOP to inflict massive trauma, based on victimhood frames, even as they win everything.
@SenWhitehouse Our resources on ending dominance-based masculine culture are here: linktr.ee/RemakingManhood
Here's our thread in article form on Medium. No firewall. remakingmanhood.medium.com/its-not-hard-t…
Learn more about the close alliance between white and male supremacists from the Southern Poverty Law Center. splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
A deep dive from @SenWhitehouse on dark money and our "captured Supreme Court." Thanks to @QuirkyGrrrl whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/…
On maternal homicide. nature.com/articles/d4158…
On the links between trauma and extremism. start.umd.edu/publication/tr…
We need to understand this. In dealing with the white supremacist GOP, there is no off ramp. No negotiated solutions any more. We have to beat them soundly or it's over. If they get their knee on our throats they will never let up. #BlueWave2022
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