What JD Vance and Harrison Butker have in common

[Nevilledog]

https://baptistnews.com/article/what-jd-vance-and-harrison-butker-have-in-common/

The most disturbing truth we’re learning this week about Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance isn’t his demonization of the poor in Appalachia, his words about staying in abusive marriages for the sake of the kids, his claim that becoming pregnant through rape is an inconvenience, or even his reversal from comparing Trump with Hitler to becoming his running mate. It’s about the one thing you’re not supposed to criticize, and the one thing that holds all of those other claims together — his religious faith.

While Donald Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025 as more Americans are learning about the Religious Right’s plan for a theocracy, he chose as his running mate the poster child for Project 2025.

“There seems to be a real consensus emerging in our movement for what’s gone wrong in this country and how to push back against it,” Vance told the Catholic organization Napa Institute in 2023. “I believe, I really do, that the next 30 years in this country is going to be really exciting, really prosperous and really good for Christian virtue and the values that we care about.”

The Napa Institute is such an extremist organization that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ended its affiliation with the group in part because:

* Event agendas include praying the Patriotic Rosary, a prayer invoking divine “continuance on our cause and our people” using the words of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, for a cause that was the perpetuation of slavery.

* Napa Institute’s founder has stated the minimum wage acts an “anti-market regulation that leads to unemployment” and does “great harm” to workers.

* A conference on “woke capitalism” hosted speakers questioning the authenticity of the Civil Rights movement.

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[Reader Rabbit]

1. I thought you were going to say "eyeliner."

Or pretending to be hyper-masculine to smokescreen.