The Lincoln Project draws a historical parallel.

Watch it and worry.

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Jon Awbrey says:

August 13, 2022 at 11:12 am

Religious Fundament-ism is all about forcing others to
live according to your religion — so you don’t have to.

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Linda says:

August 13, 2022 at 11:58 am

A comment that followed the video- Vote Blue like your life depends on it.

My comment- Leaders of religious sects that coerce people into voting for Republicans are dangerously fascist.

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Ed Johnson says:

August 13, 2022 at 11:59 am

All the more reason priority one for the Civil Rights Movement and such should have always been that of undoing the foundational “race is real” lie.

And hearing the word “diversity” has always been like hearing fingernails scrapping the chalkboard.

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Linda says:

August 13, 2022 at 12:04 pm

Fascism’s enablers pivot on paper-
“Philanthropy’s Post Neo-liberal Vision for Democracy,” Axios, 8-13-2022. They claim to want anti-democracy ethno-nationalism back in the bottle.

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Linda says:

August 13, 2022 at 1:17 pm

GOP Jesus
“They see me as a young Christian who they can basically scare.” Trump fan and Navarro associate, Garrett Ziegler’s answer to this perception of himself is, reportedly, to post the personal info of purported FBI agents involved in the classified document investigation and a link to one of their children’s social media accounts (Daily Beast).
Ziegler was described previously as using vile, sexist language to describe Cassidy Hutchinson.

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quikwrit says:

August 13, 2022 at 1:17 pm

So-called “Christian Nationalism” that was front and center at CPAC from Orban and others is the Deceiver’s anti-Christ scheme to discredit genuine Christianity.
The message of “Christian Nationalism” is hate and conflict, which is the direct opposite of the message of Jesus, which is love and reconciliation.

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GregB says:

August 13, 2022 at 1:44 pm

It ain’t because of the goulash!

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Threatened Out West says:

August 13, 2022 at 1:54 pm

I think I have told this before, but in the summer of 2016 I went to a conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They showed a new at that time film (still available on their website and IMPORTANT viewing–about 40 minutes long) called, “The Path to Nazi Genocide.” There were about 80 of us–all highly experienced Holocaust and genocide educators. While we all knew the facts, seeing them altogether, at that time, made us all shift uncomfortably in our seats. This is why it is SO important to teach the Holocaust and other genocides. I’m not saying the US is at the verge of genocide, but there are a lot of things happening right now, including Orban at CPAC, that scare me to death.

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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  August 13, 2022 at 7:47 pm
  
  https://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide/the-path-to-nazi-genocide/full-film
  
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Daedalus says:

August 13, 2022 at 2:15 pm

Who else likes Orban? Birds of a feather stick together? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/europe/orban-hungary-antisemitism.html

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Linda says:

August 13, 2022 at 2:54 pm

“Orban shows how the switch to illiberalism can be done.” The politics of resentment replaces the libertarian philosophy. One of the pages from the Orban book, culture war with urban elites. (Financial Times, 10-7-2021, “The Right’s Love Affair with Orban”)

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retired teacher says:

August 14, 2022 at 8:35 am

“The ancient Hungarians originated from the Ural region in today’s central Russia and migrated across the Eastern European steppe, according to historical sources. The Hungarians conquered the Carpathian Basin 895–907 AD, and admixed with the indigenous communities.” People may have an allegiance to a particular national identity, but we are all “mixed race.” Anyone that has studied anthropology understands that humanity is the result of serial mass migrations going all the way back to Africa. There is no “pure race.” The concept is a fabrication.

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