Make America Christian Again?
We’re ignoring what happens after that
I’ll confess: I’m still having trouble understanding how the exchange of American democracy for white Christian nationalism (a short step away from authoritarian rule) is something white Christian America is willing to trade for.
Trump-inspired efforts to keep that madman and/or others like him in office, and the level of intentionally-disruptive behaviors too many loyalists willingly display, carry a long-term cost to democracy.
Encouraging sustained and often-misguided partisan conflict; embellishing already-exaggerated fears about the future of America under liberalism’s more broad-minded objectives (more accepting of racial diversity and less enamored with religious doctrine, and with changing attitudes toward gender, language, and more); misusing others’ economic/political/cultural grievances (legitimate or contrived) for self-serving ambitions of power each and all have accomplished little more than to create reckless hatred.
That it’s all promoted on the basis of distortions and outright fabrications intentionally supplied by self-serving “leaders” cannot possibly end well.
To be sure, a fair amount of American progress and accompanying financial benefits have left, in particular, many rural, mostly white Americans on…
