Jared Yates Sexton on the Evangelical Right, white supremacy, theocratic fascism & Bill Barr

[highplainsdem]

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[DBoon]

1. Barr is what I call a Francisco Franco Catholic

who intends to undo the entire project of the Enlightenment, and bring us to 16th century Spain (complete with inquisition).

[Thomas Hurt]

2. I call them christofascist theocrats, and they fully intend to install a xtian theocracy here...

you can call them reconstructionist or dominionists as well.

[DBoon]

3. Clerical Fascism in Eastern Europes between WWI and WWII

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14690760701321346?journalCode=ftmp20

Can't cut and paste, but covers Croatia and other regimes

[crickets]

4. Bill Barr is slowly but inexorably edging Mitch McConnell out of his place

as most evil and dangerous person in the country today. That's quite a feat.