Just as Chris Christie desperately tried to pull the GOP from the Cliffs of Insanity and salvage their bid to moderate and politically dominate the coveted suburbs, Liz Cheney is now stepping into her role as next in line for trying to keep the Republican Party Crazy Train from falling off the rails.
She has the ambition and the gall to take on the Trump/DeSantis White Nationalism Complex and try to pull the GOP back from the brink of outright Fascism and off the End Game Freight Train Express to burning the Constitution and replacing it with a White Supremacist Christian Theocracy.
Her task is even more daunting than was Christie’s task before her as a rare popular Purple State Governor but she is for now one of the most widely known Republican figures and likely front runner in the “moderate” lane for 2024 in an ultra meta bid to maintain the Corporate Fascism status quo while excising the White Supremacist cancer.
Say what you will about George Bush and Dick Cheney but their Corporate flavored version of Fascism merely wants to exploit the Others within a multi-cultural society while the now dominating Far Right Fascism wants to destroy Them and establish a White Christian society in direct opposition to the intentions of our Founders.
Cheney represents the tattered remnants of a party that once embraced the Church and subtle racist dog whistles to win political power in a bid to enrich the wealthiest among us and is the leader of a dying group of traditional Conservatives who have now been brought to their knees with the Fascist Right pointing an AR-15 at the back of their heads.
As the Republican Party battles for the fate of its own soul, they have already begun trying to rebrand Democrats from Socialist (which didn’t work as well as they had hoped) to Fascist to begin the Flow of Confusion they so deftly plant in the minds of the media and their followers to disguise their true intentions.
Some may still consider equating Christian Nationalism with White Supremacy as an inflammatory association, however the one thing they can never fully wipe from history, as much as they have clearly tried, is the Christian Nationalism foundation that led Germany to embark on modern history’s most ambitious quest to eradicate as many other human beings as possible.
What do you think of when you think of Nazi’s right now?
Amoral, godless heathens who were plain evil people. And they casually paper over the full truth of the Christian religious motivations behind this evil so as to allow American Schoolchildren to believe this WWII was fought by evil white people who were persecuting other unlucky white people because of their Religion.
The ‘Jewish’ religion is intentionally conflated here with the ‘Jewish’ ethnicity that Hitler was primarily attempting to eradicate to present this as a persecution by an evil nation against religious people rather than clarifying the full picture, which looks horrifyingly bad for supporters of Christian Nationalism.
That it was an ethnic cleansing. A racially motivated genocide. An ambition by a White Christian Nation to cleanse Europe of undesirables just as they have done for thousands of years in countless Religious Wars before.
Does it still sound inflammatory or is it looking more like a clear, straight line from the peak of Nazi Christian Nationalism to the modern day Republican Party being held hostage from the inside.
You may still be thinking, there’s no way world history has been Christian Washed so pervasively in America as to render entire generations completely oblivious to the long planned rise of American Fascism by Oil, Coal, Gas, Banking, Sugar and Food Corporatists and the Wealthy Elite who have generationally-linked ties to a plotted assassination of FDR and can readily be tied to the Fascist Right propaganda campaigns that bred the hate necessary to get people angry enough to assassinate the leaders of an alternative path away from White Christian Nationalism, JFK and MLK. I'll dodge the conspiracy angle for now but you can start to see the high incentives around eliminating this particular political opposition at this particular time.
You know those few little words in our Pledge of Allegiance and on our money, ‘One Nation Under God’ and ‘In God We Trust’? The phrases conservatives point to to validate their claims that our Founders intended America to be a Christian Nation?
They were added in 1954 and 1955 respectively by White Christian Nationalists of their time who were leading the radical far-right movement to destroy the Constitution and reshape America in their Christian Nationalist image.
Still skeptical that this is inflammatory rhetoric? Or is this simply standing up to Fascism before it has a chance to gain Ultimate Power just as many in Germany tried to stop the rise of Hitler and Fascism?
By this point I’ve definitely got you thinking but here’s one last gem for you to juggle around in your Christian Washed American brain.
The Nazi SS, Hitler’s most elite and brutal officers who were rarely spared for their day in court as they reapt the karma of their unique brutality.
This very elite and expansive officer force was chosen from only the most evangelical Christian’s (there’s better sources out there than Wiki but it’s tough to dig up and this gets to the point well enough) who were selected this way to leverage their religiously indoctrinated ‘absolute obedience’ for war. Non-evangelicals, non-whites, those with Jewish ancestry and atheists were not allowed into the SS.
”Himmler used the Jesuits as the model for the SS, since he found they had the core elements of absolute obedience and the cult of the organization… All SS men were required to list themselves as Protestant, Catholic or gottgläubig ("Believer in God").”
At the end of the day, you could argue all you want how the Nazi’s ‘weren’t real Christians’ and that Hitler did in fact persecute a number of mostly Catholic and pacifist Protestant German religious leaders but what is clear is that Hitler co-opted the broader Christian religion in Germany and successfully aligned it in full force behind their Nazi White Christian Nationalist movement.
With that, let’s play a game, is this a quote from Hitler or a modern day Republican?
”Tolerate no-one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity… in fact, our movement is Christian. Today Christians stand at the head of [Germany?/America?]. I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre and in the press. In short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture, as a result of liberal excess.”
*Emphasis mine, and yea, it was Hitler.
Much like Hitler, Trump (who most you now know has repeatedly praised Nazi’s, idolized Hitler and kept a copy of Mein Kampf by his bed for many years) and ‘Trump 2.0’ DeSantis, were never particularly pious men themselves, but the drive to co-opt the broader religion of Christianity for Christian Nationalist ambitions is almost indistinguishable.
So folks bust out that Popcorn and let’s see if the trigger happy Christian Nationalist Supreme Court single-handedly saved the real soul of America’s founding. One based on the idea that you could perfect a nation over time to bring equality to all regardless of differences especially when it came to religious beliefs, the dominating societal division of their time, and implying an embrace of multi-cultural society and non-religious government. This radical idea of Democracy being the engine of equality has naturally become more perfect by equally including all women, ethnicities, new citizens, LGBTQ and the differently abled.
It is precisely because of this equality and creation of a multi-cultural society that White Supremacists feel attacked and threatened.
Everyone in a position of power can’t be an old white Christian man? Must be oppression! They aren’t interested in making any concessions to those who don’t fit well in their authoritarian White Christian Nationalist cult ordained and commanded by God himself.
The removal of still overtly powerful White Christian Nationalist oppression against the rest of non-Christian and non-White Nationalist America is certainly not persecution. But it does make them feel like it is.
Will Liz Cheney defeat the Trump/DeSantis White Nationalism Complex outright and pull the Republican Party from the brink of embracing Christian Nationalist Fascism?
It’s looking very unlikely but through her efforts she may just take a big enough chunk out of it that Joe Biden is assured a second term where she can more readily launch her real bid to become America’s first female president in 2028 in a radically shifted political landscape where at least White Supremacy, if not Christian Nationalism in it’s entirety, is seen as electorally toxic (actually pretty unlikely at this point) and Democrats have run out their two terms and chase that highly elusive third Democratic Party term in a row.
Sacrificing countless numbers of America’s young girls at the alter of rape and incest pregnancy complications seems to have been a step too far toward their Christian Fascist Utopia for most Americans and just may usher in a new golden age of Progressivism as the political pendulum begins swinging back from the far-right brink.
Let the comments flow, would love to see this pot stir more.