Everything from Bill Barr and indeed from all the "originalists" and the supporters of Trump depends on some squirrely way of turning the truth on its head, whether it's a simple insistence on Fox that Trump won the election or a deviously constructed interpretation of the founding fathers at a religious symposium. But if we stand back …
Everything from Bill Barr and indeed from all the "originalists" and the supporters of Trump depends on some squirrely way of turning the truth on its head, whether it's a simple insistence on Fox that Trump won the election or a deviously constructed interpretation of the founding fathers at a religious symposium. But if we stand back in astonishment at these things and pinch ourselves, aren't we inclined to laugh at their foolishness?
Why can't we simply demolish the arguments that they have laboriously patched together and imposed on us through political manipulation and dark-money spending? This occurs to me especially at this moment when Professor Richardson cites the overwhelming support among our people for all the things the far right wants to overthrow.
We know that the Fox propagandists and Barr and even Trump are in disarray after Trump's 2020 defeat and Biden's response to Russian aggression. We have resistance in many states to Republican gerrymanders and ill-conceived voter-suppression measures, and I think this will only grow. We have finally prevailed on Facebook and Twitter to somewhat rein in the so-called free speech of propagandists.
What we need now, I think, in addition to what we are already doing, is for mainstream Christians who are not Dominionists and who support such things as the separation of church and state to come out and unequivocably say so. I am not myself a Christian but I am quite confident that mainstream Christians must be troubled by the direction that the originalists are trying to take us. They are in a better position in many ways than I am to say why the Dominionists are wrong and should be resisted.
Everything from Bill Barr and indeed from all the "originalists" and the supporters of Trump depends on some squirrely way of turning the truth on its head, whether it's a simple insistence on Fox that Trump won the election or a deviously constructed interpretation of the founding fathers at a religious symposium. But if we stand back in astonishment at these things and pinch ourselves, aren't we inclined to laugh at their foolishness?
Why can't we simply demolish the arguments that they have laboriously patched together and imposed on us through political manipulation and dark-money spending? This occurs to me especially at this moment when Professor Richardson cites the overwhelming support among our people for all the things the far right wants to overthrow.
We know that the Fox propagandists and Barr and even Trump are in disarray after Trump's 2020 defeat and Biden's response to Russian aggression. We have resistance in many states to Republican gerrymanders and ill-conceived voter-suppression measures, and I think this will only grow. We have finally prevailed on Facebook and Twitter to somewhat rein in the so-called free speech of propagandists.
What we need now, I think, in addition to what we are already doing, is for mainstream Christians who are not Dominionists and who support such things as the separation of church and state to come out and unequivocably say so. I am not myself a Christian but I am quite confident that mainstream Christians must be troubled by the direction that the originalists are trying to take us. They are in a better position in many ways than I am to say why the Dominionists are wrong and should be resisted.