Just ahead of his headline spot at the CPAC convention in Virginia and the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump delivered a speech to right-wing broadcasters Thursday night in which the former president vowed to hand power over to the Christian nationalist movement on an unprecedented scale.
Trump said during his speech at the annual conference of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) in Nashville, Tennesse that he would defend “pro-God context and content” on the nation’s AM radio stations as he told the audience that religion is “the biggest thing missing” in the United States and warned, without evidence, that Christian broadcasters were “under siege” by the left and a “fascist” Biden administration.
“We have to bring back our religion,” Trump declared. “We have to bring back Christianity.”
Striking a Christ-like pose at one point with his arms outstretched as if on a cross, Trump mentioned his legal struggles, including multiple criminal indictments and civil judgements, and said, “I take all these arrows for you and I’m so proud to take them. I’m being indicted for you.”
As Common Dreamsreported earlier this week, right-wing Christian Nationalists operating in Trump’s inner circle are quietly preparing for the prospect of his possible reelection.
In his speech Thursday, during which he also promised to close the Department of Education so that Christian fundamentalists could take over school policy at the state level, Trump said, “If I get in, you’re going to be using that power at a level that you’ve never used before.”
- 3425asdfqwer4 ( @3425asdfqwer4@kbin.social ) 31•7 months ago
It’s shocking that people haven’t gotten to the conclusion yet. We cannot coexist with conservatives, they will never work in favor of a healthy society. Start backing the solution or prostrate yourself for the orange god.
- Em Adespoton ( @adespoton@lemmy.ca ) 17•7 months ago
I agree with everything you say except the word “conservatives”.
Conservatives need to have a voice in society in order to be receiving positive AND negative feedbacks at all times.
Trump isn’t conservative, and neither are his supporters; they don’t want to conserve anything, they want to live in an imaginary world where everything means what they want it to mean, regardless of reality.
They’re not fiscally conservative, they’re not legally conservative, they’re not politically conservative, they’re not even religiously conservative.
They want to create something new where they have absolute power and logic and reason can be ignored.
- TakiMinase ( @TakiMinase@slrpnk.net ) 3•7 months ago
Abrahamists won’t stop until everyone they hate are dead.
- gloss ( @gloss@discuss.tchncs.de ) 23•7 months ago
Are they pretending that Christians are a victimized class in America again? They need that persecution fetish to fuel their bizarre revenge fantasies, but in reality no one gives a shit about them. Maybe that’s why they are so mad.
- hangukdise ( @hangukdise@lemmy.ml ) 9•7 months ago
The public and politicians needs to understand that “Christian” in the context of MAGA is just shorthand for “marginalized white non-catholic Americans who mostly lives away from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts” who got screwed by a severe deterioration of living standards as globalization only harmed their livelihoods (although allows them to buy cheap stuff that, in the end, does not make it for the lack of long term life prospects for them and their communities).
America has a way of not caring for communities and livelihoods in the midst of economic changes and the electoral influence of MAGA is the ultimate symptoms of this culturally-ingrained and supported lack of care. And Dems also have no plans or policies for them, so it is a one way ticket to political extremism.
- Nougat ( @Nougat@kbin.social ) 5•7 months ago
globalization
You dropped these:
((( )))
- iAmTheTot ( @iAmTheTot@kbin.social ) 22•7 months ago
Why any actual God fearing Christian would think that Trump is a pious man is beyond me.
- Pilgrim ( @Pilgrim@beehaw.org ) 9•7 months ago
It’s more of an identity than an actual belief system for most people.
- itsgroundhogdayagain ( @itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ) 17•7 months ago
Frightening
- JimmyBigSausage ( @JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ) 3•7 months ago
That’s what they want. I am not afraid of cheese turd the rapist and his proud boys.
- Flumpkin ( @Flumpkin@slrpnk.net ) 16•7 months ago
Full on fascism. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.”
- DogPeePoo ( @DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ) 10•7 months ago
He also said to drink bleach, soooo…
- Zuberi 👀 ( @Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•7 months ago
Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
- LocoOhNo ( @LocoOhNo@lemmus.org ) English5•7 months ago
And thus setting in stone that there will be a Christian jihad by what is the American Al-Qaeda in this country.
Prepare yourselves for the inevitable, folks. None of us are safe from these lunatics. If you have a friend or family member that is LGBTQ+ start thinking of ways to hide them.
We’re entering the state backed terrorism part of this exercise.
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English3•7 months ago
Donald Trump promises a lot of things and keeps none of them, so…
- therealjcdenton ( @therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ) English2•7 months ago
You gotta hand it to him this is genius, immoral but still genius
- roguetrick ( @roguetrick@kbin.social ) 2•7 months ago
WHAT? 9000?!?! There’s no way that can be right.
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) 2•7 months ago
Hahaha I’m so happy that someone else’s mind went there, too!