Something odd about seeing someone arguing for a theocracy while simultaneously holding themselves up as more American than others. I don't understand how one's brain can hold those thoughts at the same time...
Something odd about seeing someone arguing for a theocracy while simultaneously holding themselves up as more American than others. I don't understand how one's brain can hold those thoughts at the same time...
It begins to make sense when you consider that they have for centuries conflated patriotism with white nationalism. It’s not about conflicting definitions; they just have a completely different definition of America and patriotism.
Ditto to “the law.” When you operate from the premise that, for them, they see “the law” as a tool to maintain their supremacy, it makes sense why they would permit such a lawless man, so long as he is an effective tool in maintaining white supremacy. They have different concepts for the same words.
Similarly, January 6th was lawful, because they see it as a just uprising to preserve Donald Trump and white supremacy. This might be hard to understand if you don’t have familial history with the Jim Crow era, but the law essentially meant “power used to enforce white supremacy.”