I am taken aback by the Christo-Fascism coming in this particular way. It was rather stealth and I was expecting to emerge and take root if Pence somehow became the President.

Well, it has been brewing for a long, long time. Perhaps not enough people were aware of the organization and intent behind this? It is not like it gets that much attention in the mainstream, as in, a major threat. You could call it a plot or conspiracy, but we are so conditioned to think of those only in the terms of the vast amount of speculators out there who are pseudo-religious about their particular, biased hypothesis and resistant to fact checking.

It is my view that part of the impetus for this push is relevance. Demographically, both religion and Republicanism don't have a very big, bright future. A power grab, where a desperate minority goes all out to seize the reigns of power makes sense from that perspective. If there is going to be a passive approach to this kind of religious overthrow, then we have yet another serious problem ahead that Trump is ushering in. We have a series of perfect storms brewing.

Welcome to Gilead. Blessed be the fruit!

taking a nosedive in popularity, their idea of how to stop the nosedive is to entrench their religion in the government. A power grab as you phrase it.

So these two speeches may be the stalking horse for the new initiative that will somehow look to make Christianity the state religion. Which form and how it will happen has probably been determined already. My suspicion is that there will be new stealth orders while Trumpy runs interference with even crazier public shenanigans.

Our democracy has been eroded in plain sight for decades while the media chuckles at the rubes.

There is plenty of information that supports this. Gee, journalist? Investigation? I guess those days are over.

The joke is that you can just do a search online for starters and then go out in the field well armed. Some have, (and so, we have dozens of well-researched in-depth articles online already) but this is pretty much a buried or ignored issue. Considering the gravity of it, one would think it would be a bigger deal and no laughing matter.

They are so ensconced in their bubbles of cynicism and privilege, they think the whole thing is a colossal joke.

Putting an absolute madman into the WH so he can insanely distract America from what the RWers are right now implementing and the slow destruction of democracy.

And the fragmented GOP and the loose cannons trying to assert themselves. It’s all a fucking crap shoot.

Dominionist are not Christian in my book, more like religious nut jobs. Lots of sunshine needs to be shown on this infection.

https://truthout.org/articles/christian-dominionists-meet-at-trump-s-washington-hotel-to-answer-the-divine-call-to-war/

They could be called extremists and my view is that their bent is Fascist. In this case, the Fascism leads to Theocracy.

It is important that you distinguished that about this type. We are better off not painting this with a broad brush. Right-Wing Evangelicals are the primary faction that is attempting to usurp our country in the name of their religion and that is about power, control, fear, etc., not spirituality and its potential benefits.

There are many fine believers and practitioners of religions and spirituality that treat others and society in a way that is respectful and egalitarian. They live their values and practice what they believe in. We are concerned with power mongers who are using religion AND politics in an ego-driven, materialistic and detrimental way. They are projecting something inside them out on the rest of us and it is not a healthy, loving, caring and healing message and way of acting, in fact, it is like a repressed shadow or ID that they don't seem to be aware of and could be called the very evil they speak of.

That's just a point I would take in order to stay focused. You can find many Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc., who not only contribute to society and bring benefits, but do not, in anyway, condone what we are seeing for an obvious and particular group and would join with us in resisting this kind of overthrow and its contradictory effect on democracy.

He's trying to establish the principles of an American theocracy.

This is bad enough in and of itself, but it should be of alarming concern coming from the highest law enforcement officer in our nation.

"He's pretty much a walking advertisement for all Seven Deadly Sins". Going to remember that one!

why should this be any different.