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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
LIBERTARIANISM :
RACISM :
BIGOTRY :
EXTREMISM :
HATE GROUPS :
INTOLERANCE :
DONALD TRUMP :
BLATANT FALSEHOODS:
SERIAL LIARS :
REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN :
RAPE CULTURE : SEXISM :
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RELIGION: CHRISTIANS: RELIGIOUS RIGHT:
The Rise Of The 'Alt Right' And Religious Right Are Chillingly Similar
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The Rise Of The 'Alt Right' And Religious Right Are Chillingly Similar
We can glean a lot about whats ahead by studying the legacy of the
Religious Right.
By Katherine Cross
The Establishment
November 26, 2016
Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/
rise-alt-right-and-religious-right-are-chillingly-similar
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/h82qnj8
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It wasnt over on November 8.
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Of course it wasnt. This race, with its roiling of our electoral
landscape, is the kind that leaves legacieseven if Trump had lost, the
stain of what Trump has made possible would be with us.
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Trump has reinvigorated white nationalism; his nomination of Steve Bannon
as White House chief strategist makes that clear enough. While many across
the political spectrum have reacted with horror at Trumps bigotry, all too
many Republicans and conservatives may instead be taking lessons from him
on how to exploit the newly-invigorated alt-right, the trendy name given
to people who are mostly unreconstructed white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
(Theres even been a push to disavow this term altogether, for the way it
obscures and normalizes the bigotry and hatred that fuels this movement,
with media figures taking pledges to never use the term alt-right at all.)
For a party that has shown itself to be chronically allergic to expanding
its base, finding ways to ratchet up the rage of angry white men may seem
to be the only hope. Worse, the self-identified alt-rights internet-savvy
gloss provides Republicans with the illusory sense that young voters are
turned on by this fundamentally paleoconservative message.
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It could work, for a time at least. With Faustian grace, the Republicans
have shown themselves to be adept at buying a moments vigor and wealth at
the cost of their souls. The last time the GOP made such a deal was in the
late 1970s, awakening the politically quietist constituency of Evangelical
Christians and giving birth to the Religious Righta force that would imbue
the Republicans with immense power, even providing the margin of victory
in the painfully tight 2004 presidential race. But it would also consume
the party, drowning it in ever more stringent purity pledges, infighting,
and indulgence of extremismdragging the country in its undertow by
saddling us with draconian abortion restrictions, bathroom bills, and
other self-satirizing absurdities at every level of government.
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The racists Trump has courted will destroy the Republican Party as we know
it, but that slow, violent death will catch us all in its wake, with
potentially devastating consequences for American democracyand what may
rise in its place should comfort no one.
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We can glean a lot about whats ahead by studying the legacy of the
Religious Right.
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Republicans found their wedge issue in religiously inspired segregation._
Throughout the 1970s, the Christian college, Bob Jones University, had
been fighting the Internal Revenue Service to keep its tax-exempt status
despite its prohibition on interracial dating and marriage; for many white
Christians, the IRS rule and successive court rulings against Bob Jones
University were unforgivable intrusions on their religious liberty. In
1984, at long last, the matter was settled by the Supreme Court, which
ruled that the IRSs revocation of tax exempt status did not violate the
free exercise clause of the First Amendment. But during the cases many
years wending its way through the courts, Republican doyen andHeritage
Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich used the issue to galvanize white
Evangelicals angry about political correctness. More than even abortion,
this issue began getting the nascent moral majority to pull the lever for
Republicans and eventually, for Ronald Reagan himself.
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Just six years after Nixons historic resignation, Republicans were back on
their way to the White House with a thumping mandate from the electorate.
But the moral majority wanted more than occasional meetings with the
Gipper and God Bless America.
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The history of the Republican Party these last 30 years is the tale of a
flesh-eating virus. Though many politicized Evangelical Christians will
speak fondly of Reagan, to speak to them in private is to hear their quiet
laments about his overall inaction on issues like abortion and divorce.
Indeed, Reagans administration, though thoroughly right-wing, was more
consumed with neoconservative foreign policy and Friedmanite Monetarism
than the soft social issues that so animated the Religious Right. They
wanted more, and demanded it quite loudly at the 1992 convention when they
booed Massachusetts Governor William Weld off the stage for making a
pro-choice speech (his political fate was to be Gary Johnsons running mate
this year).
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This is the party Trump now commands, clothed in terrifying power at the
federal and state level, leading an ongoing revolution against itself and
the nations women and minorities. The deal made with the religious right
was one built on the idea that Platonic Republican leaders could use the
noble lie of Evangelical Christianity as a circus for a new bloc of
voters. It consumed them and came to dominate the party with terrifying
sincerity.
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Now the Republican President will be a man who, despite his bombastic
repudiation of piety, is taking his party in a new direction with the
blessing of those religious voters. Over the years, these voters have been
convinced to reverse their prioritization of religion over politics,
giving in to ever more worldly political causes. Its made way for their
heirs. There is a very real possibility that Trumps white nationalist
voters will be the next cancer to metastasize on the GOP.
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Trump has tapped into what we might think of as the KKKs David Duke wing
of the Republican Party, feeding racist resentment in ways so blatant that
dog whistles are just whistles now. The energy Trump has generated, riding
to a convincing primary victory through cultivating a cult of personality
around his bigoted tell it like it is bombast, is doubtlessly attractive
to Republicans.
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Weve been here before; the Faustian temptations abound. Even if Trump had
led his party to a historic defeat, the forces that hes summoned up would
not have gone away; as things stand, things are just more blatant now.
Trumps victory was excruciatingly narrow, and hes poised to lose the
popular vote by millions. This is cause for some cold comfort, but it
carries its own warning. Barry Goldwater and his fiery far right
conservatism lost in a nationwide rout in 1964 while giving Nixon ideas
for how to win big just four years later, and set the stage for a young
Ronald Reagan to begin making the case for his own brand of right-wing
ideology, cultivating a new base for the party.
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We should not doubt that there are many Republicans in the wings now
looking at how Trump made white nationalism respectable again, trying to
figure out how best to exploit that. They see that voter suppression has
worked, and that Trumps appeals excite rural whites (of all classes) who
had been turned off by mainstream Republicanism. They, undoubtedly, feel
they have a formula now, which will be deployed at every electoral
opportunity.
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Goldwaters radical credoextremism in defense of liberty is no vicehas been
the rallying cry for those dragging the Republican Party further and
further to the right.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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