Jonathan Weisman misses the point.

[theweaselking]

The quote:

stories of Muslims assaulted by Trump supporters are piling up. Hispanic immigrants are lining up for citizenship, eager to vote. Groups that have been maligned over centuries at different times in different regions now share a common tormentor, the alt-right, a militant agglomeration of white nationalists, racists, anti-Semites and America Firsters that have been waging war on the Republican establishment for some time

The error: This isn't the "alt-right", it's just the right. It's what to be an American Christian and a Republican *means*. And they haven't been waging war on the "Republican establishment", they've been enthusiastically embraced by the established Republicans, for half a fucking century.

To be a Republican or Christian in the USA, for the last decade[1], is to enthusiastically embrace white supremacy, antisemitism, misogyny, bigoted nationalism, and violence.

[1]: At least. Arguments that it has gone farther back than that are taken as given, I'm assuming the most generous possible interpretation of the most generous possible level of complete obliviousness to the toxic effects of the position.

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[matgb]

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Beyond that, there're plenty of Xians that aren't racist arseholes. But the Repug supporting ones mostly are or are so horribly blinkered they might as well be.

[kaph.livejournal.com]

Yep. Anti-racist, feminist Christian here.

Also, it's good to remember that not all American Christians are white.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

The ability to be anti-Semitic and rabidly pro-Israel has always impressed me.

[skington.livejournal.com]

AIUI, the basic gist is "yay the Rapture, and we think this will happen if Israel nukes everyone, so let's big them up so this happens".

[skington.livejournal.com]

You've pasted the link tag inside the blockquote tag and LJ is bitching about it. Fix?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Fixed. Oops.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

There are still a fair amount of people who were republican before the republicans went christofascist. When I was in high school in the early nineties government class tested me as basically a left wing republican. That shifted further off in the later nineties and of course after y2k. They didn't become REALLY nutty til relatively recently. There were of course some religious nutcases, but most were more sane