In a wide-ranging interview, Wilson said he opened a D.C. “church service” because of the number of Christians who adhere to his church’s teachings within the Trump administration. One of the most prominent followers is Hegseth, who attends the newly opened D.C. congregation.
“If Kamala [Harris] had won the presidency, there would have been basically zero evangelicals in the White House administration,” Wilson said. “And although Donald Trump is not an evangelical by any stretch … his administration is full of them.”
That’s why Wilson sees an opportunity for his beliefs to be seriously considered at this moment, including the belief that eventually the U.S. should be a Christian theocracy, whereby Christian principles dictate state authority and religion and politics are tightly intertwined.
The fact that this is not already happening sucks. Why wait
People are still clinging onto hope for the elections. That and fear.
Historically, we see that people have had to be pushed to far worse conditions before fighting back. Americans have been spoiled. They were largely spared from the horrors of the World Wars on the European mainland. We’ve been the top dogs in the New World for a long time, surrounded by two oceans for protection.
Spain lived under fascist rule for four decades. And many lives were lost in that fight. Europeans know first hand the horror of fascism.
No Kings rallies aren’t going to stop what’s been set in motion. The majority needs to rise up all together and refuse to comply.
Eh… I think the rapid rise of far right parties all across Europe would dispel the notion that Europe has received some kind of immunity to fascism.
In reality all democracies are vulnerable to fascism. The German jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote about the inherent vulnerability of democracy in his book The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923. He basically wrote the playbook that every fascist still utilizes today.
Writing “Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal, but unequals will not be treated equally.” Basically, you can tear apart any democracy by framing diversity and minority opinions as existential threats to the political community, by exploiting this you can lay the groundwork for majoritarian tyranny and state-sponsored exclusion.
Under this framework, I’d rather live in authoritarian China than the authoritarian Christofascist idiocracy of the USA.
That is one of the potential benefits of the authoritarian state, though that benefit heavily relies on the state itself taking responsibility over its own failings instead of utilizing minority groups as a scape goat.
So it’s more of a roll of the die instead of something that can be purposely developed as a plan of action by reactionary forces within the majority.