Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene the other day proclaimed proudly she was a Christian nationalist There are some implications to the term. which could be taken as racist dog whistles. In any case, she tapped onto a deep and old sentiment held by many of her constituents that calling herself a Christian nationalist is a good thing. There are some advantages and horrors to being born in 1938, I keep seeing history, awful history, repeating itself in my lifetime. White Christian nationalism in part fueled Hitler's rise to power, his hate-filled oratory. and resulted in World War II. The current crop of adherents to this ideology ought to put the word "white" in front to describe their real characteristics. The form of this ideology espoused by their advocates has little to do with theology and more with culture https://time.com/6179886/
CPAC's flirtation with the Christian Nationalist dictator of Huntary has been moved to later post',MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: CPAC Cheers a white nationalist dictator: is that what the GOP base has become?
From a newsletter posting on the Bulwark commentary on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shipping and dumping immigrants in Martha's Vineyard and touting his "Christian values":
For Christian nationalists, the cruelty is the point.
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"Those planes were filled with actual human beings. People with dignity. People with hopes and dreams, problems and challenges. People with names and families.
And this Christian man used them as props. He didn’t clothe the naked or feed the hungry. He literally did the opposite: Evicted them—and not because he felt that he had to, because it was a requirement of the law. But because he saw that he could use them as a means to the ends of his personal ambition.
I’m trying—really trying—not to get too hot here. But Christians should look at this act and be revolted. They should be horrified.
Because using vulnerable human beings for your personal gratification is evil.
In previous eras, when a political actor pursued a policy that was useful but cruel, he would make excuses. He would pretend that actually the policy was okay. That no one would really get hurt. Or that, if someone was going to get the short end, that tough choices had to be made because there was no alternative. So sorry.....
....One of Trump’s political innovations was to realize that his followers wanted cruelty. They didn’t care about abstract ideas, like the free market or liberalism. They had various subsets of Americans whom they hated. What they wanted was a strongman who would target these othered peoples and hurt them. They wanted cruelty; policy TBD. "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-26/viktor-orban-will-speak-at-cpac-in-texas-despite-nazi-speech-backlash,
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viktor-orban-hungary-cpac-2024-decisive/
From my May 23, 2022 post: Viktor Orban's Hungary: CPAC's fantasy land
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/19/23123050/hungary-cpac-2022-replacement-theory
From my posting in May, 2022:
Such wide acceptance of replacement theory is becoming a threat to democracy itself. This embrace of Viktor Orban of similar racist policies of anti-immigration and Hungarian ethnic domination also brings with it association with autocracy as a preferred method of governance instead of democracy. FOX's Tucker Carlson's enthusiasm for the autocratic ruler of Hungary inspired the US conservative pac, CPAC to hold a conference in Hungary and plans more. Hungary's Orban opens CPAC by telling conservatives "we need to coordinate the movement" of allies - CBS News Tread lightly, CPAC. You, too, will find yourself with not only the racist, anti-semitic white nationalism that is Orban's but saddled with his method of governing, which means no press freedom ( or press only permitted that is approved by Orban) and what we would consider in the US, a corrupt alliance between big business and government with rewards going to friends of Orban. An independent judiciary no longer exists. Hungary is not like the US. Orban could be as racist and nationalist as he liked since 97% of the country is Magyar (Hungarian) and speaks Hungarian. There are no large groups of minorities. That is not the US now and in the future. Takeover by someone like Orban appealing to white nationalists has not been. would not be, and will not be a peaceful process. For US white nationalists, Hungary is a fantasyland. The late Madeleine Albright, our beloved former secretary of state, tagged Orban as a fascist in her best-selling book, Fascism: A Warning "in 2018 mostly because of his racism and his opposition to "liberal democracy". ( Fascism: a warning)
Hungary: where editors tell reporters to disregard facts before their eyes | Hungary | The Guardian
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