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The Threat of White Christian Nationalism – Part III: The Power Worshippers with Katherine Stewart

The Lincoln Project

This is an expert and author who has investigated how the far-right Christian conservative movement became fascist and what they are trying to accomplish by acting on a dominionist authoritarian favoring ideology and funding it. The overview of the entire movement starting with Paul Weyrich and though they don’t mention him, Pat Buchanan along with others is filled with good solid information.

Anyone who wants to understand why the foundation of freedom, liberty, democracy and justice is at risk currently in the United States, especially this year – can get a bearing on it by watching this interview of Katherine Stewart by Lincoln Project’s Reed Galen. It is amazing how much information is in this video clip.

From the YouTube description – “. . . and what members of the pro-democracy movement can do to fight against the advancement of white Christian nationalism. If you’d like to hear more from Katherine Stewart, be sure to pick up her latest book, ‘The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism’, and find the documentary, ‘God & Country’, at a theater near you. For more from Reed Galen, subscribe to ‘The Home Front’.”

Another great info rich video that I watched is about what Trump attorney and pled guilty to Jan 6 Georgia RICO charges Ken Chesebro showed in a document dump that an investigative reporter at

HawkAfterDark Episode 6 Kenneth Chesebro Document Dump
Hawk’s Podcasts

Feb 25, 2024 Hawk After Dark FULL VIDEO Podcast “Welcome back to another episode of Hawk After Dark! In this episode, Hawk dives into the intricate details of Little Kenny Cheesebro’s role in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. As a Harvard-educated lawyer, Cheesebro played a crucial role in crafting legal strategies, including the infamous fake electors scheme. Hawk explores Cheesebro’s background, his involvement in the plot, and the legal maneuvers they hoped would lead to Trump’s continued presidency. The episode reveals startling insights from documents provided by Cheesebro to the Michigan Attorney General, shedding light on their attempts to manipulate the system and create chaos. Hawk unravels the complex web of events and personalities involved in this dark chapter of American history. So, buckle up for a deep dive into the legal machinations that unfolded by the lawyers who tried to keep Donald Trump in the White House after losing a free and fair election.”

from YouTube description with this video podcast from Hawk After Dark

In a very enjoyable, easy to listen to, conversational storytelling style, this podcast describes the way attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and John Eastman came up with an intellectual exercise to amuse themselves with creative ways that the Jan. 6 electoral count certification could be twisted to suit keeping Trump in office despite losing in a valid fair 2020 presidential election.

From a document dump made by Chesebro trying to stay out of trouble with the Michigan Attorney General by cooperating, talking points memo dot com investigative reporter Josh Kavinsky wrote about the information uncovered across massive material documents. The Hawk weaves it together into the story of what happened leading up to Jan. 6 behind the scenes with the legal efforts being made to create chaos and confusion hoping to extend the lack of a certified president through Jan. 20 where the Supreme Court might be forced to give the office to Trump.

He tells it better than I do – go watch it when you get a chance. What is fairly horrifying is that it meant so little to all of the players under Trump’s influence to throw away our democracy, our election, our votes, the will of the American people reflected by our votes, our Constitution and our nation’s foundational principles to serve nothing but Trump, his fascist supporters, backers and donors to force his illegally keeping an office to which he was not legally entitled.

‘It’s very well-thought-out’: Authoritarian expert breaks down dangers of Project 2025

MSNBC

“The connection between PROJECT 2025 vision of Christian autocracy and the likely Republican nominee, Donald Trump, became generally clear this week.” – Ali Velshi

Once the Republicans elect Trump or possibly anyone else to the White House in 2024 (and in every state where they form the administration and legislature) – if they win, Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation and its 75 organizations that are signed onto it will be enacted which guts all federal civil service based employees and replace them with Trump loyalists that take an oath to him and serve only at his arbitrary and capricious will – as in an authoritarian dictatorship with absolute power and no reins to temper any of it. (my comment, if you didn’t guess that.)

Ali Velshi speaks to Professor of history and scholar of authoritarianism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, about the efforts to change the United States democracy into an authoritarian form of govt.

So, what is that? – like a king, where they can make everyone do whatever they want them to do on any whim from one minute to the next. If he doesn’t like you and your family or your business, he can take all of it away arbitrarily simply because he wants to and every resource of our nation becomes his to use as he commands and sees fit whether any of it makes any sense or not.

That is how dictators are tyrants. It seems to come with the opportunity of holding that much power over the lives of other people, especially en masse with nothing to stop or rein in the stealing of every national asset and using every national power in whatever horrific way amuses them., sometimes simply because they are bored.

“And so some of what Project 2025 proposes, like abolishing the DOJ and the FBI, is designed to that end, to make it impossible to prosecute Trump and allow him [and his friends, my note] to commit crimes with impunity.” – Ruth Ben-Ghiat

The idea being that these agencies that in theory are otherwise populated by Senate approved people who are deemed to have the merit to run them, will now these will either be eliminated or the president in the executive branch will make decisions that were otherwise being made by experts.” – Ali Velshi

“Well, also if you’re eliminating whole departments, you’re also eliminating those cabinet positions. So, you end up with what I described in ‘Strongmen’, which is a structure of governance which allows abandonment in many places like Putin’s Russia, which is a kleptocracy; a band of criminals supported by oligarchs.” – Ruth Ben-Ghiat

From video on MSNBC – “‘It’s very well-thought-out’: Authoritarian expert breaks down dangers of Project 2025”

From the first part of Ali Velshi’s reporting, Trump said these delusional things presenting himself as if he is the Christ to audiences at a Christian Media Convention this week –

“His rhetoric escalated further as he declared, quote, ‘”‘No one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration.’ A bizarre comparison, Trump also likened his legal troubles to the crucifixion of Christ, gesturing as if you are on a cross, he stated, ‘I take all these arrows for you. I am being indicted for you.'” – Ali Velshi

in the beginning of this video segment linked above

So, it seems that Trump has been deemed the Second Coming of Christ or something which isn’t the first time he has made that claim, nor the first time that evangelicals have made that claim about him despite his character and actions proving far from Christian, vastly different and even the opposite of what Christ taught and what Christianity is about, and obviously still believing he needs no forgiveness from God (as Trump has said in a tv interview) or the forgiveness that Christ offers to be able to have a relationship with God. That is, if anything – anti-Christ by its very nature and the facts prove it.

In the last few days, I’ve stumbled upon a set of videos and don’t know anything about the person who made them but he compares the Bible verses about the antichrist with Trump, finding them to be an absolute match of all the verses with the facts about Trump. So, you might want to see it. The first one I’m putting here is the second one he made which reviews the first 15 verses about the antichrist that he matches with Trump and covers another 12 verses that are an obvious match as well. Then, I’ll put the link to what was the first one of the two that expands on the first 15 verses that clearly match. I agree with all but maybe a couple of them that I don’t know enough about those verses to be sure. The others certainly are a match though and this man is certainly not the first nor the only one to have noticed this about Donald J. Trump. It figures that the Christian churches of today as remade by the Republican Party since the late 1970’s would worship the one guy who absolutely fits all the characteristics warned in the Bible as the antichrist.

12 More Bible Verses That Identify Donald J Trump as the Antichrist
Antichrist 45 – Bible Prophecy with Brother Paul

“As a reminder, we are looking at all of these verses in totality. In other words, what makes the case for Trump being the Antichrist so powerful is that he matches ALL of the biblical descriptions, not just a few. That is simply NOT the case with any other figure on the world scene.” Full transcript at: https://antichrist45.com/12-more-bibl…

part of the description about this video on their channel

The first video of the two is this one below and it expands how each of these 15 verses from the Bible about the antichrist exactly match Trump. I’m including it in case you want to watch it. I had seen it first and then the one above. There is one more on his channel that is really worth watching about Trump’s “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” that he has planned for his second administration in our White House. It is like 1984 applied to govt policy if he gets elected. Absolutely cringe-worthy.

From its included description for, Trump’s ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ on YouTube – it says:

Apr 23, 2023 Antichrist 45 – News Updates “At the Republican Party of Lee County’s 2023 Lincoln Reagan dinner Friday, former President Donald Trump promised to investigate and “obliterate” Deep State bureaucrats at all levels of the government upon re-election. One method he intends to use is a so-called “Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” which he mentioned yet again on Friday. Here’s a short video clip from that speech, and I apologize for the quality as this was how it was originally published on a pro-Trump Rumble account. Will the Deep State be replaced with something else? Something along the lines of a Trump New World Order?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0D0zzpYxFs

Here is the other video of the two about characteristics of the antichrist matching Trump –

15 Bible Verses That Identify Donald J. Trump as the Antichrist

Antichrist 45 – Bible Prophecy with Brother Paul

I wish that I had that clip from when Trump was in the White House saying people thought he was the second coming of Christ or whatever it was. He was out on the lawn and memes were made by his MAGA cult of the sun streaming from his head behind him as if it was some spiritual power emanating from him. There is the photo of Christians praying with their hands on the gold statue of Trump that he has somewhere, probably at Maralago. I’m not sure. The photo has been viral on twitter X and other social media especially among MAGA and QAnon supporters believing that is a good thing. It reminds me of the Bob’s Big Boy statue that used to be at those restaurants except this one is made of gold in the likeness of Trump and nobody prayed, blessed or worshiped the one for that restaurant. I don’t know why they are doing it with this one of Trump either.

But, just so it might be a reminder of the fruits from Trump and whatever spirit he is, that honestly appears far from anything godly or of Christ – these two PBS Frontline interviews, one with Rusty Bowers and the other with Gabriel Sterling.

Democracy on Trial: Rusty Bowers (interview) | FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE PBS | Official

This shouldn’t have ever happened to this man. Trump and Republicans serving him, MAGA supporters and the rest of the far right Nazis, white supremacists, fascists, QAnon delusionists, Christo-fascists and evangelicals that did this to Rusty Bowers and his family had no fruits of the Holy Spirit nor Christian teachings guiding and directing any of this. It was the opposite of that. And it shouldn’t have happened to countless election officials, their staff, election workers, secretary of state officials, and all of their families.

Democracy on Trial: Gabriel Sterling (interview) | FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE PBS | Official

Now, the threatening actions and violent threats have happened also to libraries, school libraries, librarians, teachers, school board members, governors, judges, jurors, witnesses, election volunteers and many others that have become the targets of Trump and his cult members, MAGA supporters that feed his need for money constantly as well as the armies of digital warriors as Mike Flynn and his reawaken tours have taught them for the “conservative” fascist takeover of America.

Sometime, check what the fruits of the Holy Spirit are in the Bible according to Jesus. Those are not the fruits of Trump (and the current ideologically fascist Republican Party) in any measure. They are in fact, the opposite.

  • cricketdiane, 02-27-24