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Dear John,
Donald Trump is portraying himself as a religious savior.
He has repeatedly compared his criminal trials to the crucifixion of Jesus, and accepted fans’ descriptions of him as a divinely appointed ruler, a holy warrior defending against an imaginary attack on Christianity.
Trump is playing to a rising white Christian Nationalist movement within the Republican Party -- a movement that believes the law of the land is not the Constitution, but the law of God as they interpret it.
Please join me in exploring these ideas in this week’s video. Then I hope you’ll hit the ‘Share’ button and forward the link to friends and family.
The belief that God has anointed Trump was justification for trying to overturn the 2020 election -- and there’s every reason to think Trump will try again if he loses this year.
When fascism combines with Christian Nationalism, the result is called Christofascism, a term first used in the 1970s by theologian Dorothee Sölle. Fascists call their enemies subhuman, but Christofascists go still further: Fighting a religious war, they see their opponents as demonic.
So many of the founders came to what they called the “New World” as refugees themselves, seeking religious freedom. They would be alarmed to see the rise of Christian Nationalism today.
For more on Christofascism and how it contrasts with the Constitutional vision of a secular democracy, see this week’s video.
And thank you for your devotion to a secular, multi-racial society, bound together by a faith in democracy and the rule of law.
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
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