@rbreich
Trump and Republicans have courted the evangelical christians for decades because they know they’re the most gullible humans on the planet and will believe anything they’re told.
@rbreich
The ultimate goal of conservatism is to roll back the public sphere and enforce capitalism at home and abroad. Christian nationalism supports this goal.
The pastor at my parents church, for example, said the Great Society caused all the problems in the black community. We need to get black people less dependent on the government and more dependent on the churches, he said.
The American Constitution's explicit aspiration, extraordinary for its time, is that govt should neither favor nor disfavor one religion, all religions, or no religion.
Insurrectionist American fundamentalists, however, whom Trump has drafted as his army, want to reinvent that law and history. They want to impose their religion on all others. They want the state subject to their religion so they can use its physical and legal powers to make that a reality. All else is commentary.