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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Thomas Lecaque

Thomas Lecaque is Associate Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, located on Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk lands. He has written for The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Bulwark. Follow him @tlecaque on Twitter.

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Religion Dispatches

Trump's Arrest 'Prediction' Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump '24

This coming Saturday, March 25 th—one week after a hysterical all-caps social media post in which he declared that he “will be arrested on Tuesday” and called on supporters to “protest, take our…
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

Don't Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For 'The Final Battle': This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

Donald Trump has, in the past, dallied with apocalypticism in his rhetoric and policy, but it was usually interpreted as a sop to his evangelical base. He made an excellent secular hero for…
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Red/Blue 'National Divorce' Looks an Awful Lot Like a Confederate Flag

There is nothing quite like the fresh hell of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, wondering on a daily basis what the most erratic far-right member of congress will scream out into the void. And…
Thomas Lecaque
Joshua Call
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