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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure the “R” next to his name was enough to tie him to Christian nationalism.

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      Came here to say this. I have assumed for at least the last 20 years that any Republican politician is a christian nationalist, and though I don’t have specific figures, I think I’ve probably been correct 99% of the time.

      That 1% is just due to caution – I don’t have anyone in mind.

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        There’s that whole “the family” thing.

        They approach young first term republicans in DC, and shower them with attention and bribes/donations. To play ball, you almost have to deal with them. Because everyone else in your party already did, you’ll never get preference over another member.

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    the Republican previously worked as an attorney for the [Alliance Defending Freedom, formerly Alliance Defense Fund or ADF], a Christian advocacy group Posner described as having ambitions to “eviscerate the separation of church and state.”

    Fuck this dude. The ADF is a horrible organization.

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    who the hell thought it was a good idea to have the speaker role not just be a neutral person who manages debate procedures in the house?

  • Grant_M@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Cadet bonespurs will be whining to oust this guy soon, before he steals the cult.

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    "Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a deeply religious Christian, was a legal crusader associated with a fringe evangelical movement called ‘young Earth creationism,’ based on a literal reading of the Bible’s Book of Genesis that posits the Earth is only several thousand years old,” the HuffPost reports.