A short thread of Christian nationalists and fascists being very open about their agenda. First up, Douglas Wilson: "In the republic I envision, Hindus would not be able to hold public office."
Joel Webbon explaining what "true revival" in America would look like: "It would look like millions of people being deported. It would look like mothers getting death row for murdering their children."
Ben Zeisloft: "Our role as Christians who are involved in the political process is not to compromise with them, but to make them do what we want."
Trump is getting the headlines he wants about the Republican Party dropping explicit calls for a federal abortion ban from its platform language. But that's not the whole truth. 1/
Trump's campaign is so eager to make abortion less motivating to pro-choice voters that he was willing to publicly anger his most ardent religious-right supporters. 2/ rightwingwatch.org/post/trumps-rn…
But Trump's platform language implicitly endorses a core principle of the most extreme wing of the anti-choice movement: that fertilized eggs are protected as persons under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. 3/
Rick Wiles is a virulent antisemite, violent right-wing conspiracy theorist, and End Times broadcaster. He is now running for Congress in Florida. bit.ly/3xULJOS
In less than one minute, Benny Johnson manages to make multiple false claims about Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention. bit.ly/3xoWatK
1. Benjamin Franklin did not preside over the Constitutional Convention, George Washington did.
2. This was not from a “prayer” delivered by Franklin “at the opening” of the Convention, but rather from a speech Franklin delivered on June 28, 1787, over a month into the convention.