Recent developments in activity and rhetoric raise the possibility that some anti-government factions could morph into pro-Trump paramilitaries; a phenomenon we may see during this interregnum period.
Ahead of November Election, Trump Inflames His Vigilante Base
During the first 2020 Presidential Debate, President Trump refused to denounce White supremacy and instead told far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” once again mobilizing his militant base.
When it comes to the president’s support among white evangelical Christians, my first instinct is skepticism. Always. These people are not subject to political factors normal people are subject to…
There is no such thing as abuse of power when one has been chosen by God to rule. There is no such thing as obstruction of justice when God alone decides who is worthy of justice.
Trump’s election was less an aberration than a reflection of changes in the New Right coalition, which brought business elites, evangelicals, and neoconservatives together under the Republican umbrella in the late 1970s.
The contemporary anti-immigrant movement, which has established influence at various levels of the administration, has promoted and attempted to litigate changing the census to reveal citizenship status for nearly 40 years.
Prior to Trump, no president has actually spoken at public right-wing events like CPAC and the Values Voter Summit, and he’s the first president to actively embrace the prosperity gospel.
In the 1980s, the Moral Majority helped usher in an era of politicized Christianity in the United States. The breadth of Christian Right activity since then, from the evangelical Right, to fundamentalist homeschooling, to cross-denominational culture war
To entice the Turkish president to go easy on Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration floated the idea of extraditing a permanent U.S. resident who would likely face serious punishment.