![]() ![]() He has talked about creating his own mercenary force within the community so he doesn't have to go through a chain of command that he worries would disobey him. He's talked about weaponizing the spy community, to spy on his adversaries. And those are things that aren't just forecasts of what Trump could do. ![]() "If you look anywhere in history you see the most grievous abuses of power is when the army or domestic security forces are used against a leader's political enemies. Taylor went on to say that his biggest worry is the potential weaponization of the national security community.ĪLSO READ: A neuroscientist explains how Donald Trump exploits the minds of conspiracy theorists It will be throwing the kitchen sink at American democracy and doing all the things he's wanted to do by abusing federal power." "What does Stephen Miller mean by that? He means in a second go-around, there won't be years of delay and indecision about whether to moderate Trump's position so he can win a second term. He specifically described day one to me: 'On day one, when we win, it will be a shock and awe blitz.' You have to take him at his word," Taylor said. This is how Stephen Miller, likely to be one of Trump's cabinet secretaries in a second term, described the second term to me. "Is it a stretch to imagine those things actually happening? And that this is more than his usual rhetoric?" he asked. They have crossed over the embattlement tipping point and have begun a process of subcultural decline that has left them smaller, more politically radical and more desperate to hold onto their power at any cost." "White evangelicals are no longer embattled and thriving. "Those who have dissented from Trump’s political agenda have either exited or were forced out of white evangelical communities, leaving them smaller and more uniformly aligned with the political right," wrote Braunstein. What all of this means, Braunstein concluded, is that the evangelical movement is being torn apart and stripped of its Christian values from within, not by some shadowy external secular forces. "And in fact not only isn't it landing with voters, it's not even galvanizing the evangelical community itself, which is increasingly fractured over support for former President Donald Trump," she writes. voters who are growing frustrated with winner-takes-all tactics they're seeing from top conservative leaders, one in particular. ![]() The analyst then argues this message isn't landing with U.S. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? "This ties into a worldview evangelicals have espoused for decades, where they have 'cultivated a myth that Christians are under siege by a hostile secular culture.'" "There is not an open effort to silence and censor the viewpoints of other religions," Braunstein writes. In her analysis, Braunstein looks at Johnson's work with the Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom and challenges the group's narrative that religious liberty must be protected from a hostile liberal elite, as the New York Times reported in October. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his evangelical compatriots have for years tried to galvanize voters with a narrative of conservative Christians facing constant attack, but that strategy may not be working the way they hoped, argued Ruth Braunstein for Religion News Service on Tuesday. ![]()
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