Jemar Tisby replies:
"I'm still waiting on the humility part."
Du Mez responds:
"Turn from their wicked ways."
Footage follows of Trump "reading" this verse and what precedes it, using a sing-songy affected voice that one assumes he imagine a preacher would adopt.
Tisby:
"As the young people say, gives you the ick."
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"The idea here, and this is like at the heart of Christian nationalism, is if we align the country and the country's laws with God's laws, if we repent as a country, as God's specially chosen nation and, you know, get our house in order, then God will heal our land. Then we will be blessed. So it's kind of like a national level prosperity gospel kind of thing."
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"It reads, 'If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.' …
I knew it was going to be this one because this is the favorite Bible verse of Christian nationalists. Has been for decades, right? You see it pop up here & there all over the place."
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Historian Kristin Du Mez comments on Trump's performative piety stunt of reading a bible verse in public:
"Totally predictable. And when I heard that Trump was going to be reading a verse I honestly knew exactly what verse without needing to look it up. I think you probably did too. So this is 2 Chronicles 7:14."
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Authoritarians, strongmen wannabes like Trump and Mussolini, make the "authoritarian bargain," Ben-Ghiat says, in which they court elites, business and religious ones, to give legitimacy to their authoritarianism. On the Catholic side, as Ben-Ghiat points out, there's the powerful, secretive, wealthy right-wing cult Opus Dei which is omnipresent in DC and helps prop trump up.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes that "Trump does this thing with images of Jesus when he feels extremely threatened." Not only did he recently post the blasphemous AI image equating himself with Jesus (and then lie and say he thought the image was a doctor). But when he had his criminal trial, he released a sketch showing Jesus standing next to him.
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/lessons-in-authoritarian-history
What are the warning signs of a strongman? And how do we most effectively stand up to their propaganda and rhetoric?
"A lot of thoughts spring to mind in relation to this, but at the very forefront, one question: do the US’s evangelical Christians, who overwhelmingly support Trump, have a red line and if so, can they find it with both hands?
I’m stating the obvious but it’s worth raising again, if only to boggle at the sheer shamelessness of a religious community that has thrown in its lot with Trump."
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"He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting on the goodwill of one powerful constituency of American voters, to whom he appealed this week by reading a passage from the Bible urging people to repent their 'wicked ways'."
~ Emma Brockes
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William Lindsey 
