The Hateful new Speaker of the House speaks volumes of America’s decay into White Christian Fascism
While our collective attention is on the war crimes being perpetrated by Israel on Gaza and Putin’s ongoing war of aggression in the Ukraine, the world is ignoring the dangerous rise of White Christian Fascism in America with the election of Mike Johnson as Speaker.
Johnson is the kind of Handmaid’s Tale nightmare amalgamation of White Christian Nationalism and MAGA Fascism, his legacy of Hate has been decades in the making…
Mike Johnson symbolizes a new turn for the religious right
The arc of Rep. Mike Johnson’s career encapsulates the shifting priorities of the religious right in the era of Donald Trump.
During his first decades in political life, the newly elected House speaker was a vehement opponent of legal abortion and greater legal equality for LGBTQ people. That focus reflected the dominant public focus of religious conservatives on issues of sexuality and gender roles from the 1980s until Barack Obama’s presidency.
Without abandoning those views, Johnson in recent years has embraced key priorities of Trump’s MAGA movement, describing illegal immigration as “the true existential” threat to America’s future and leading congressional efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he claimed suffered from “credible allegations of fraud and irregularity.”
…that someone as hateful as Mike Johnson has been elected Speaker is deeply alarming and just another step towards White Christian Fascism.
If Trump manages to get elected next year, the planet will go from bad to worse.
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During the last mass shooting he had a little prayer in the house. Who is he Madonna?
These god botherers in the US are the Taliban sans beards. Idiots to a man and woman.
Google Project 2025, America is in for a unique and terrifying form of fascism that most people probably can’t comprehend if Trump wins (which is looking likely on current polls)
Yeah, I came across that this morning on The Guardian. The amazing thing is that the Heritage Foundation was behind it. Time was when they were a principled libertarian outfit: which maybe goes to show that when the poor folks start to get ‘uppity’, not all libertarians are as freedom-loving as they claim.
MAGAism is shit scared of migrants because they know the numerical supremacy of older white religious fruitcake folks in the USA is virtually over, and will definitely be over in a decade or so.
Also, according to main stream polls the majority of younger Americans actually support Abortion rights, gun control, Black Lives Matter and other causes–voter suppression, gerrymandering and turnout, remains the problem in kicking MAGA to the curb for good.
“Fascism” is a term that should be used carefully, but if the “January 6th attempted Coup” did not convince you…what would?…the Yoo Ess Ayy is definitely headed down an Authoritarian path if the Republicans can get away with the 2024 Election. Maybe that Judge will send Mango Mussolini to the cells for a bit…to cool off…
An internal shitstorm for the Americans…
“If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.”
There is an understanding of Revelation that shows the USA becoming a church-state combination so this is not surprising to some of us.
ffs, quote it then.
I don’t know if you have time to watch the video below for a full explanation but it is based on the land beast in Revelation 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtSqUHfBb7M&t=20s
So who identifies the USA with what in Revelation?
Not a re-run of the German ambition for a 1000 year reich surely?
Right Frank. There’s bad then there is worse. It’s ok Trump would just lie about the numbers and inflate them when needed. He’s good at that.
Or perhaps Wheel the Dems might purge themselves of the corrupt Biden crowd and attendant neocon warmongers and elect sensible options like Kennedy and Gabbard. Fat chance, heads you lose, tails you lose.
I am not trying to say Biden and the dems are awesome by any stretch, but I do think Trump is even worse. I get that you will appreciate that he is great mates within Putin, but he was equally ‘China Bad’ as anyone.
Wheel who cares in this case about Xi or Putin or their alleged mates? This is about the current non choice Americans are given by a corrupt uniparty and all the self serving beneficiaries. Preferring Trump to Biden is a fools game, neither will help Joe Average. Watch the unity of hostility the Dems and GOP will show to any third party. The message is “this is our trough, keep out”.
Trump is the anti-christ, and all the christians love him. what could go wrong?
yep – all the cities are burning and there’s rioting in the streets
I suppose someone had to reduce the really dangerous developments in the US down to shallow party political drivel… I’m disappointed it had to be you Fwank..
Seriously, grow the fuck up.. Whatever side one stands on in that country, it will end with an ultra right wing fascist government…
The vast majority of Americans haven’t the first clue of what actual “socialism” is, and that level of ignorance is displayed by both “sides” of politics in the US…
The only choices there are in that country are far right, or ultra far right government.. Bernie Sanders was their last hope, and if he ever got elected, he would die at the hands of his opponents.. THAT is what the world is up against, and all you can do is make silly party political statements that place you in the “ignorant masses” clique? … I really did think you were smarter than that.