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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristian nationalism says the anti-democratic thing out loud:
I take a little comfort in believing that when he dies, he's going to be VERY surprised where he ends up.
— Jamie in PEI (@paganforge.bsky.social) 2026-05-01T19:43:14.246Z
The bots, trolls and hangers on on X are saying the quiet part out loud too:
The bots, trolls, and credulous hangers-on of TwiXter are crying out that the U.S. is a constitutional republic rather than a pure democracy. Yes: we do have a representative democracy, buttressed by constititional protections. Thatâs why the SCOTUS majority is wrong, (thread)
— Jeff Roush (@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social) 2026-05-01T20:38:57.354Z
Applegrove: seems like the right wing is trying to normalize anti-democracy before the mid-terms.
Biophilic
(6,630 posts)And then there's the people who listen and believe them. I had no idea we were harboring so many traitors and haters.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,800 posts)We no longer have a president who would forcefully speak out against that hate talk
Blue Owl
(59,481 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,645 posts)NickB79
(20,396 posts)He thinks being allowed to vote is detrimental to women.
Biophilic
(6,630 posts)You dont try to silence something that isnt scary. Im guessing women are scary as hell to him.
KPN
(17,485 posts)them into evangelicalism to begin with. It normalizes them, at least within that group. Their nature was and is abhorrent to begin with.
Mblaze
(1,101 posts)Where is the virtue?
BidenRocks
(3,446 posts)They believe most of us think like they do.
SCantiGOP
(14,744 posts)and not a democracy is like saying that large woody plant in my yard is an oak, not a tree. Constitutional Republic is a form of democracy, but they seize on the distinction since they can argue that our form of government does not require a universal right to vote, like we had in our early days when minorities, women and indigent people were not allowed to vote.
RetiredParatrooper
(211 posts)"Ok so Im wrong about a lot of things, but Im getting a strong vibe that hes really, really attracted to strong, virtuous, masculine men"
NTTAWWT
eppur_se_muova
(42,322 posts)Bristlecone
(11,160 posts)Why is that I wonder ..
haele
(15,531 posts)Just like in the movie 300. The peak of manliness who prevailed against unbelievable odds - unlike those pansy Athenians and decadent Persians...
(Totally ignoring the history of the Pelloponnesan Wars, where they ended up 2 for 7 overall, if I remember, ending up being destroyed from within through slave revolts and economic collapse)
Nothing homoerotic about their group at all...