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Friend,

Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” email series, that will serve to
remind us all of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we
encountered during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others
in the MAGA movement still pose – and to keep those moments clear in our
memory as we fight to defeat Republican extremists during the upcoming
elections.

This week’s recap focuses on former President Trump’s enabling of
far-right religious activists and the extreme and wildly unpopular agenda
they seek to advance:

In October 2017, Trump highlighted his support for far-right
constituencies that helped him get elected a year earlier.

On October 13, Trump spoke at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering
of religious-right political activists hosted by the intensely anti-LGBTQ,
anti-choice, Family Research Council.  A few days later, he [ [link removed] ]addressed a
group of major donors to the Heritage Foundation, the massive right-wing
think tank and political force.

At the Values Voter Summit, Trump bragged about his nomination of Supreme
Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and repeated the ridiculous claim that he was
“stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values” by making it safe
(finally!) for people to say, “Merry Christmas.”

At the same conference, far-right Trump aide [ [link removed] ]Steve Bannon declared war
on the Republican establishment, religious-right leaders [ [link removed] ]bragged about
their progress in resisting LGBTQ equality, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch
declared, “[ [link removed] ]Feminism is dead,” and GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore
claimed that the First Amendment “is a mandate to acknowledge God.”

Speaking to the Heritage Foundation’s President’s Council, Trump claimed
to be leading “the defense of our God-given rights,” bragged about his
judges, and promoted his tax cut plan, which delivered [ [link removed] ]most of its
benefits to the wealthiest Americans.

Here’s how this Trump two-fer reminds us how dangerous it would be for
Trump to have the power to carry out his far-right supporters’ wishes:

* The conservative white evangelicals who voted overwhelmingly for Trump
in 2016 and 2020 are triumphant about the Supreme Court they built
together. They are now pushing for both state and national bans on
abortion. They are urging the same right-wing majority to further
dismantle church-state separation, reverse marriage equality and
undermine legal protections for LGBTQ Americans.
* Family Research Council leaders not only promoted Trump’s reelection;
they were also [ [link removed] ]deeply involved in Trump’s illegal efforts to stay
in power after his 2020 defeat. Trump returns their loyalty, speaking
at this year’s FRC activist gathering, which focused on taking and
[ [link removed] ]wielding political power to impose the religious-right’s “biblical
worldview” on American law and society. Trump delivered an apocalyptic
message: “This election will decide whether America will be ruled by
Marxists, fascists, communist tyrants who want to smash the
Judeo-Christian heritage or whether America will be saved by
God-fearing, freedom loving patriots like all of the people in this
room.”
* Trump also bragged to FRC activists this year that he had “totally
transformed the federal judiciary,” a reminder of the cataclysmic,
generations-long damage to our rights and freedom if Trump were
allowed to pick up where he left off with his far-right judicial
nominees.
* The Family Research Council has joined a remarkably shameless effort
to [ [link removed] ]impose a right-wing Christian “biblical worldview” religious
test on future Republican Supreme Court nominees, a plan spelled out
in great detail at last month’s Pray Vote Stand, the new name FRC has
given to the former VVS. Among the people on the religious-right
wish-list for SCOTUS are some of Trump’s most extreme lower court
nominees, and the head of the religious-right legal giant Alliance
Defending Freedom.
* Meanwhile, the [ [link removed] ]increasingly MAGAfied Heritage Foundation is
[ [link removed] ]leading a massive right-wing battle plan to [ [link removed] ]declare war on
federal government agencies and purge thousands of nonpartisan civil
service employees if Trump or another conservative is elected
president. The director of Project 2025 [ [link removed] ]says they are
“systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army,
aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do
battle against the deep state.”
* One goal of the Project is to advance [ [link removed] ]the Far Right’s goal of
slashing the federal government and giving Trump practically
dictatorial powers over every aspect of the executive branch.
* Project 2025 is more evidence of [ [link removed] ]the far-right plan to reverse the
New Deal and more than 100 years of progressive advances and force
Americans to live under an interpretation of the Constitution where
states’ rights trump both individual rights and federal efforts to
advance the common good. The election of Trump—or someone equally
willing to do their bidding—is all they need to launch their attack.

These are just some of the reasons we need YOU in this
fight. So, find your
favorite way to unwind after reading through our brief recollection of
“this week in the Trump presidency,” and then make a plan for how you will
fight back THIS week, this MONTH, this election cycle.

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Thanks for all that you do to defeat Republican extremism.

– People For the American Way

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