{"id":616494,"date":"2024-04-03T04:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-potential-soldiers-of-a-second-trump-reign-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T04:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:28:04","slug":"watch-the-potential-soldiers-of-a-second-trump-reign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-potential-soldiers-of-a-second-trump-reign-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Potential Soldiers of A Second Trump Reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4192abcebff\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4192abcebff\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-potential-soldiers-of-a-second-trump-reign-2\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_The_Potential_Soldiers_of_A_Second_Trump_Reign%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online The Potential Soldiers of A Second Trump Reign&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-potential-soldiers-of-a-second-trump-reign-2\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Potential_Soldiers_of_A_Second_Trump_Reign%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Potential Soldiers of A Second Trump Reign&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_The_Potential_Soldiers_of_A_Second_Trump_Reign%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online The Potential Soldiers of A Second Trump Reign&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Potential_Soldiers_of_A_Second_Trump_Reign%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Potential Soldiers of A Second Trump Reign&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cBad Faith: Christian Nationalism\u2019s Unholy War on Democracy\u201d is the scariest film I\u2019ve seen in a long time. It\u2019s a documentary that explores the rise of Christian Nationalism, and much of what it shows you, about the mutation of the Christian Right into a movement that\u2019s openly abandoned any loyalty to democracy, has been covered in the mass <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> in recent years. But the film\u2019s directors, Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones, go deep into the roots of this movement, and what\u2019s new and disquieting is how the current presidential race changes everything. Viewed against the looming possibility of Donald Trump\u2019s re-election (a scenario that most liberals I know believe is unlikely; I think they may be seriously deluded), the rise of Christian Nationalism takes on a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In 2017, Trump, once he took the reins of power, was constrained \u2014\u00a0by the other branches of government, and by the rule of law. He didn\u2019t become the explicitly, committedly anti-democratic figure he is now until the 2020 election, when his declaration that he was actually the winner, and that Joe Biden had stolen the election, became the new cornerstone of his ideology. In the intervening period, Trump has been setting himself up to rule the United States as an authoritarian leader, and that meshes perfectly with the goals of Christian Nationalism, a movement that\u2019s built around the dream of transforming America into a theocracy: a Christian nation ruled by a higher power than the Constitution \u2014\u00a0that is, by the will of God, as interpreted by his white Christian followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The Christian Nationalist movement was the driving force behind the January 6 insurrection, and what we saw there was a preview of their ideals and methods: a frothing hostility toward the U.S. government, coupled with the willingness to use violence. Russell Moore, the editor of Christianity Today, talks about how the new wave of Christianity is \u201ca church growth movement, but for angry people. A sense of theatrical anger feels, to some, like depth of conviction.\u201d Yet even on Jan. 6, these \u201crebels,\u201d participating in their own form of action-movie cosplay, were, like Trump himself, at least somewhat constrained. What \u201cBad Faith\u201d captures is that Christian Nationalists now have the potential to be the shock troops in a second and far more threatening Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The alliance between Trump and Christian Nationalism is a profound one. Progressives tend to be focused, to the point of obsession, on the hypocrisy of the alliance \u2014 the idea that men and women who are supposedly devoted to the teachings of Jesus Christ could rally behind a sinner and law-breaker like Trump, who seems the incarnation of everything they should be against. The documentary fills in their longstanding justification: that Trump is seen as a modern-day version of King Cyrus, a pagan who God <em>used<\/em> as a tool to help the people. According to this mode of opportunistic logic, Trump doesn\u2019t need to be a pious Christian; his very recklessness makes him part of a grander design. The Christian Nationalists view Trump much as his disgruntled base of working-class nihilist supporters have always viewed him \u2014 as a kind of holy wrecking ball. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But, of course, that\u2019s just the rationalization. \u201cBad Faith\u201d captures the intricacy with which Trump, like certain Republicans before him, has struck a deal with the Christian Right that benefits both parties. In exchange for their support in 2016, he agreed to back a slate of judicial <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointees to their liking, and to come over to their side on abortion. Trump\u2019s victory in 2016, like Reagan\u2019s in 1980, was sealed by the support of the Christian Right. But what he\u2019s promising them this time is the very destruction of the American system that they have long sought. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The most chilling aspect of \u201cBad Faith\u201d is that, in tracing the roots of the Christian Right, the movie colors in how the dream of theocracy has been the movement\u2019s underlying motivation from almost the start. In 1980, when the so-called Moral Majority came into existence, its leader, Jerry Falwell, got all the attention. (A corrupt quirk of the movement is that as televangelists like Falwell, Pat Robertson, and, later on, Joel Osteen became rich and famous, their wealth was presented as evidence that God had chosen them to lead.) But Falwell, despite the headlines he grabbed, wasn\u2019t the visionary organizer of the Moral Majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That was Paul Weyrich, the owlish conservative religious activist who founded the hugely influential Council for National Policy, which spearheaded the structural fusion of Christianity and right-wing politics. He\u2019s the one who went to Falwell and Robertson and collated their lists of supporters into a Christian political machine that could become larger than the sum of its parts. The machine encompassed a network of 72,000 preachers, it employed sophisticated methods of micro-targeting, and its impetus was to transform Evangelical Christianity into a movement that was fundamentally political. The G.O.P. became \u201cGod\u2019s own party,\u201d and the election of Reagan was the Evangelicals\u2019 first victory. We see a clip of Reagan saying how he plans to \u201cmake America great again,\u201d which is the tip of the iceberg of how much the Trump playbook got from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Weyrich was a kind of Steve Bannon figure, the ideological bomb-thrower behind the scenes. He wrote a manifesto that calls for the destruction of the government, with tactics that include guerrilla warfare. From the start, he stoked the idea of a culture war, and maybe a civil war, for what the future of America would be, with the battle cry echoing through his manifesto (\u201cOur strategy will be to bleed this culture dry,\u201d \u201cMake no mistake about it: We are talking about Christianizing America,\u201d \u201cWe will weaken and destroy the existing institutions\u201d). But 15 years ago, all of that sounded like crackpot raving. It\u2019s now the cutting edge of the mainstream Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Randall Balmer, the Ivy League historian of American religion who wrote the book \u201cBad Faith,\u201d is interviewed in the documentary, and he makes a fascinating point: that there\u2019s a mythology that the Christian Right was first galvanized, in 1973, by Roe v. Wade \u2014 but that, in fact, that\u2019s not true. Jerry Falwell didn\u2019t deliver his first anti-abortion sermon until 1978. According to Balmer, the moment that galvanized the Christian Right was the 1971 lower-court ruling on school desegregation that held that any institution that engages in racial discrimination or segregation is not, by definition, a charitable institution, and therefore has no claim to tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This had an incendiary effect. Churches like Jerry Falwell\u2019s were not integrated and didn\u2019t want to be; yet they also wanted their tax-exempt status. It was this law that touched off the anti-government underpinnings of the Christian Right, much as the sieges of Ruby Ridge and Waco became the seeds of the alt-right. And it sealed the notion that Christian Nationalism and White Nationalism were joined at the hip, a union that went back to the historical fusion of the two in the Ku Klux Klan\u2019s brand of Christian terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cBad Faith\u201d makes a powerful case that Christian Nationalism is built on a lie: the shibboleth that America was originally established as a \u201cChristian nation.\u201d It\u2019s true to say that the Founders drew on the moral traditions of Judeo-Christian culture. Yet the freedom of religion in the First Amendment was put there precisely as a guard against religious tyranny. It was, at the time, a radical idea: that the people would determine how \u2014 and what God \u2014 they wanted to worship. In truth, Christian Nationalism undermines not only the freedoms enshrined by the Constitution but the very concept of free will that\u2019s at the heart of Christian theology. You can\u2019t choose to be a follower of Christ if that belief is imposed on you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet that\u2019s the society that Christian Nationalists want. According to the film, those who are either members of this movement or in sympathy with it constitute nearly a third of all Americans. If that\u2019s true, it\u2019s a daunting number. Yet even as the Christian Nationalists speak as true believers, they represent a politics of money and corruption. It was in the Reagan era that Paul Weyrich first struck a deal with oil and gas billionaires like the Koch brothers. In exchange for their support, his movement would make the case for eliminating corporate taxes and regulations. That fits right into the Trump agenda, which has always been a mix of corporate tax breaks, demagogic rabble-rousing, and de-regulation. If the Christian Nationalists prove to be instrumental in sweeping Trump back into office, he will owe them big time. How convenient that their goals are now perfectly in sync: to treat democracy itself as the threat that must be controlled and destroyed. What we\u2019re seeing is a deal with the devil, though in this case it\u2019s hard to say whether the most dangerous entity is Trump himself or the fire-breathing Christian totalitarianism he\u2019s in bed with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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