Salon: Can progressives reclaim "religious freedom" from Trump and the evangelical right?
In the midst of the longest, most destructive government shutdown in history, with a maelstrom of treason-adjacent scandals swirling around the White House and Democrats finally in a position to do something about it, it’s easy to overlook President Trump’s proclamation of Jan. 16 as “Religious Freedom Day.” As Fred Clarkson, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, noted at Religion Dispatches, “Every president since 1993 has issued the annual presidential RFD proclamation, as required by Congress,” but “Trump was the first to overtly use it to promote the agenda of the Christian right.”