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The GOP’s abortion bans are what RELIGIOUS FASCISM looks like

deanobeidallah.substack.com The GOP’s abortion bans are what RELIGIOUS FASCISM looks like

Since Roe was overturned GOP has gone full religious supremacy

Since Roe was overturned GOP has gone full religious supremacy

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  • People keep yelling "fascism" without understanding what it actually is.

    EDIT: I'm not making any qualitative statements on fascism. I don't like it, myself. I'm simply saying that it's a word with a specific meaning, and it's thrown around to derogate the political right a bit too freely.

  • I’m not saying that the GOP’s actions are grounded in the actual tenets of Christianity-just as a Muslim, I reject the Taliban’s perversion of my faith. But “Christian nationalism” is a political movement that is inseparable from white nationalism as experts note. It’s a belief that the United States was founded as a white, Christian nation. It also relies on the core belief that there should be no wall between church and state, rather that our laws should be based on right-wing, extreme interpretations of the Christian faith. This is today’s GOP.

    Well said. Forcing religion on people isn't done out of a desire to improve the world for everyone, it's about controlling others to remake the world for an ever-shrinking distillation of patriarchy and faux traditionalism. That's fundamentally fascist.

    The overturning of Roe is only one indicator; the Christian Nationalists are very clear that they don't think this is a country with room for alternative opinions, and they want to ensure compliance with their reactionary anti-intellectual agenda through the force of law.