Britain tried it in the seventeenth century. One of the main winners was King Charles II. Among the biggest losers were ordinary Irish folk. But people never learn, do they?!
The immediate loser would be the country. At least, the country that some people still profess to be a constitutional republic.
There are fewer and fewer such people. It's a sad fact that many, many people in the U.S. don't believe in the separation of church and state and want a theocracy. They have been with us from the beginning of the Union.
Dan Pfeiffer at The Message Box made a very good point recently. https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/what-the-media-keeps-getting-wrong He said that the error the press (and many, many people) make is to blame Trump for the sorry state of the Republican Party. In fact, he says, Trump simply recognized that this is what the Republican Party has become. And he saw he could exploit it by saying the bad parts out loud. Like any parasite, Trump knows how to attach himself to the host and take control. In this sense, the party was simply ripe for the picking.
These are people who neither understand nor care about the Constitution and the principles we all purport to value. They want to elevate one group, white, Christian straight people, to dominance, and to destroy the people ("liberals", the Left, etc.) who actually take the Bill of Rights seriously. In the end, they want those who disagree to die. Because they believe God told them to.
They want a Christian jihad. The sooner we open our eyes to this, the sooner we can return to the rule of law.
A guest essay in the New York Times by a Republican woman gave me a sense of what Christian Nationalism looks like in Wyoming, both in her church and politics. “...it is unclear to me many Sundays whether we are hearing a sermon or a stump speech.” This link should be in front of the paywall. https://shorturl.at/ehswI
Britain tried it in the seventeenth century. One of the main winners was King Charles II. Among the biggest losers were ordinary Irish folk. But people never learn, do they?!
The immediate loser would be the country. At least, the country that some people still profess to be a constitutional republic.
There are fewer and fewer such people. It's a sad fact that many, many people in the U.S. don't believe in the separation of church and state and want a theocracy. They have been with us from the beginning of the Union.
Dan Pfeiffer at The Message Box made a very good point recently. https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/what-the-media-keeps-getting-wrong He said that the error the press (and many, many people) make is to blame Trump for the sorry state of the Republican Party. In fact, he says, Trump simply recognized that this is what the Republican Party has become. And he saw he could exploit it by saying the bad parts out loud. Like any parasite, Trump knows how to attach himself to the host and take control. In this sense, the party was simply ripe for the picking.
These are people who neither understand nor care about the Constitution and the principles we all purport to value. They want to elevate one group, white, Christian straight people, to dominance, and to destroy the people ("liberals", the Left, etc.) who actually take the Bill of Rights seriously. In the end, they want those who disagree to die. Because they believe God told them to.
They want a Christian jihad. The sooner we open our eyes to this, the sooner we can return to the rule of law.
A guest essay in the New York Times by a Republican woman gave me a sense of what Christian Nationalism looks like in Wyoming, both in her church and politics. “...it is unclear to me many Sundays whether we are hearing a sermon or a stump speech.” This link should be in front of the paywall. https://shorturl.at/ehswI