Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution

[marmar]

Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution
Trump gave control of the budget to a Project 2025 henchman who calls this a "post-constitutional moment"

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published December 6, 2024 5:45AM (EST)


(Salon) Far-right pastor Lance Wallnau is incredibly upset over the burgeoning controversies regarding Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth. No, he's not angry about reports that Hegseth paid off a woman who accused him of rape, or about the repeated adulteries and other marital cruelties detailed in a 2018 letter his mother wrote to him. Nor is Wallnau concerned with the growing pile of stories suggesting Hegseth has a severe drinking problem. Wallnau's just mad that an email detailing some of these issues exists.

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Wallnau, a close Trump ally whose robust social media presence helped drive the mob on January 6, isn't just mindlessly defending Trump's nominees. He's especially gung-ho about Hegseth because the two men are deeply entwined with the Christian nationalist movement, which believes the purpose of the U.S. government should be to enforce far-right Christianity on not just Americans, but the whole world. It's not just Hegseth's tattoos that indicate his allegiance to this theocratic ideology. He recently joined a church run by Doug Wilson, a proud Christian nationalist who argues "secularism is a hollow construct" and should be replaced by a government-run according to the dictates of "evangelical Protestantism." Using Trump to grant control of federal powers — especially those that can be enforced with guns — is central to this plan.

On Thursday, Marianna Sotomayor wrote in the Washington Post that Trump's policy agenda will face the obstacle of "narrow and ideologically fractured majority" Republicans have in the House. The GOP only has two more seats than Democrats. Getting all 220 to take votes on Trump's radical plans will be hard, if not impossible, as many represent purple districts and could easily lose in 2026 if they march in lockstep behind Trump.

But that doesn't bother the Christian nationalist leaders who back Trump, because the plan was always to reduce Congress to a ceremonial body and concentrate all the power in the hands of the president. During the campaign, much attention was paid to the disparate policy ideas in Project 2025. Less discussed was the overarching theme of the plan, which was to turn the presidency into something very much like a dictatorship. Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, is a Christian nationalist who believes the federal government's job is to impose a "biblical worldview" by fiat, which means sidestepping the House, whose members face biennial accountability with voters. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/06/ushers-in-a-christian-deep-state-maga-moves-to-gut-the-constitution/

[jmbar2]

1. Thanks - love Amanda Marcotte's takes on Christian Nationalism.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. A bloodless insurrection

[sop]

3. The bloodletting comes after the insurrection.

[paparush]

4. Reading last night about 1932 Germany

Hitler had been named Chancellor, the brown shirts were physically attacking anyone who uttered any resistance, and after the Reichstag fire, Hitler’s push for dictatorial powers were granted and the fourteen year old German republic came to an end.

[SamKnause]

5. Shove your fascism up your ass.

Shove your theocracy up your ass.

Everyone of you are anti-American.

Everyone of you are against democracy.

You don't deserve to live in this country.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. MAGA would accept Hunger Games over the Constitution

any day.

[Martin Eden]

7. Donald Trump has a "biblical worldview"?? Of course -- Sodom and Gomorrah.

What these Christo-fascists believe in is their own wealth, and power over those who resist their dismantling of our Constitutional republic.