Handing The Mic To CHRISTIANITY TODAY

MAGA Shocked to Find Nazis in Their Tent

Like literally — they have a tent! Click on that story.

(“Fascinating and urgently important.” — Deadline)

But try, also, to make time for this must-read piece from Christianity Today:

The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously*

Last week, after Tucker Carlson platformed neo-Nazi apologist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, the Heritage Foundation’s president Kevin Roberts issued a statement defending Carlson. . . . In the days since, some Heritage Foundation staffers have told reporters that the controversy revealed for them how many of the youngest staffers and interns actually agree with Fuentes. This comes only weeks after text messages from multiple Young Republicans groups were leaked, showing racist, antisemitic, and pro-Hitler messages.

Those who say [this is just a tiny fringe] do not understand how almost every fad—good, bad, and neutral—that has swept through evangelicalism has taken hold. These trends start out in small groups of people that are not large enough to be taken seriously by “successful” leaders. These small communities then cultivate the fads until a couple people with bigger platforms adopt them. And then, seemingly suddenly, they are everywhere. Power evangelism, prayer walking, seeker-sensitive services, laughing revivals, New Calvinism—all of these (and again, some of these things are good, and some are not) happened that way.

There is much — much — more to this must-read piece.

Listen: in America, you have a right to be hateful. To be vulgar. To mock the disabled. To call fellow citizens “scum” and “vermin.” To dine with neo-Nazis. To praise Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius.” To brand former House Speakers “evil” and joke a bit after their husbands are bludgeoned nearly to death with a hammer.

You have a right to all that.

Even, as a major CEO, to publish four volumes of rabidly anti-Semitic newspaper articles.

To march with swastikas in a town filled with Holocaust survivors. (Read that amazing story here and join the ACLU.)

Even to burn the American flag!

As I’ve written before, “The whole point of America is that you can burn the flag!”

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight like hell to keep these things from becoming acceptable.

> Join Indivisible.

> Support “my” 26th annual DNC LGBT Leadership Council dinner even if you’re not L, G, B, or T and even though you can’t come. An adequately funded opposition party is absolutely necessary for democracy to prevail. Next year: give to candidates. This year: to infrastructure.

> Have a great weekend.

*A different branch of Christianity, to be sure; but there’s a powerful scene in Nuremberg with Supreme Court Justice Jackson at the Vatican with the Pope. Don’t miss it.