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.”
Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
Full on fascism. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.”
WHAT? 9000?!?! There’s no way that can be right.
Defend religious content on AM? The only fucking thing on AM is religious content
I’m a 30s millennial, and I don’t think I have EVER in my life, intentionally listened to AM radio lmao. I haven’t even listened to FM in like 13+ years lolol
As a 30s millennial, I’ve listened to a ton of AM and still do occasionally. It’s great for sports and advisories (e.g. when traveling through a sketchy pass), I just avoid the evangelical stations because they’re nonsense. I used to like Dave Ramsey for the callers (dislike his advice though), and I still sometimes listen to KLove periodically on FM for generic pop without the sexually charged lyrics.
Likewise, I listen to FM pretty much every day. I generally prefer classic rock (before my time), and there’s some decent stations for it in my area. I’ll alternate between that and audiobooks for my commute most days.
Different strokes I guess.
There were always religious nutters (Xians naturally) on AM, as long as I can remember, but they used to be a minority. AM was mostly pop music and C&W and talk shows. One thing I now look back on nostalgically was Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM show that aired really late at night. I used to listen to it on my long drive home from work and he’d have all kinds of crazy conspiracy theorists (UFOs, aliens, Area51 activities) and paranormal “researchers” &etc &etc on the show. Great fun, and despite the conspiracy stuff, largely non-political. Everyone understood it was “entertainment”. You can probably find recorded episodes online. Satan knows what kind of horrible garbage is on AM these days, but I’m not about to go find out either.
Yep. AB and later George Noory are fond memories of my late-night driving.
So where are we in the timeline at the moment?
Early 1933 I’m guessing, certainly not up to mid 1934 and the Night of the Long Knives yet.
Hmm, so do you think the brown shirts are being played by the GOP or the Christian nationalists, or some other group under the MAGA umbrella? I could certainly see an argument either way there although I kind of lean towards it being the Christian nationalists. Trump has never really cared in any meaningful way about Christians, he just finds them to be an incredibly gullible group that are easy to manipulate and freely donate to those that know how to push their buttons. On the other hand the GOP are actually political rivals that could pose a longer term threat to him, but they’re also connected to powerful people that Trump would want to get on board, or at least keep from interfering. Other than keeping the public pacified I don’t see a longer term benefit to Trump from the Christian nationalists once he’s in power.
I dunno pandering to an already somewhat insular group is pretty much hitting the jackpot when it comes to establishing the basis of in groups and out groups.
I suppose the other side of this would be realizing Trump is a complete moron and just about everyone in this thread has probably put more thought into this than he ever would. Based on that, Trump will likely do what he has always done and decide who to attack based on who most recently kissed his ass and who insulted him/made him look bad/failed to accomplish what he wanted/disagreed with him/makes a convenient scapegoat. Based on that metric the Christian nationalists are probably safe, but most of the GOP is definitely in the line of fire.
He has to be elected first and that ain’t gonna happen.
They have no intention of winning the election. They intend to create an uber confusing shit-show and committing a coup.
We can certainly hope. Things will be very bad if he does get in though. He knows this is his last real shot and if he fails this time best case scenario is he goes bankrupt, worst case he rots in prison. He’s going to be desperate in a way he wasn’t last time.
The desperation might be what sinks him, or so we can hope
And thus seeing 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 family member that is LGBTQ+ start thinking of ways to hide them.
We’re entering the state backed terrorism part of this exercise.
If they mean power to erase themselves from existence, I’m all for it!
After saying this he proceeded to chuck Sam Jackson out a window.
Fuck
religion sucks ass
So goddamned creepy
Why any actual God fearing Christian would think that Trump is a pious man is beyond me.
It’s more of an identity than an actual belief system for most people.
Yeah, there’s a reason my very religious state preferred Ted Cruz and even Kasich to Trump in 2016…
He didn’t win my state in the general because he’s pious, he won my state because he’s Republican, she unfortunately that’s all that matters here.
He resembles what they see in Christianity perfectly, and if we’re being honest, what Christianity has always been.
There’s a milquetoast version of Christianity that’s quite benevolent and popular by numbers, but because they almost never do crazy shit, it doesn’t get shown a lot. Like for instance Church of England or scandinavian protestant churches.
The USA has free market Jesus, something most other countries never had for as long as America. Since religion was decoupled from the state, religion could be whatever put butts in seats.
Donald Trump promises a lot of things and keeps none of them, so…
The only point of power is to abuse it.
Frightening
That’s what they want. I am not afraid of cheese turd rapist proud boys.
