We now find America brutalized by a group of people who are fiercely and unrelentingly at war—with everything.
John Pavlovitz
Far-right conservatives can dispense all kinds of cruelty and expose human beings to staggering forms of bigotry—and still say they're defending the living, because they love embryos.
Agreeing to disagree with Trump's supporters in matters of even simple human rights and dignity would mean silencing oneself and more importantly, betraying the people who bear the burdens of their political affiliations.
So maybe I'm wrong and need to regroup on this whole Christianity thing. I thought we were supposed to care about people. MAGA Christians, what am I missing?
The truth is, children are far safer in a public bathroom with a transgender person than with a MAGA Evangelical—and it ain't even close.
The change in these people has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths—and the worst part is that they can't be reached anymore.
You could call Trump a businessman or a soulless parasite who feeds off things that were thriving, until those things are dead, and then moving on. Potato—Potahto.
If there’s one truth about bullies, which President Zelenskyy reminded us of with precise clarity, it’s that they’re absolutely terrified of resistance.
When MAGA Americans finally realize that they too are victims of the criminality and predation they initially hoped would only be for those despised others, then it will be a bridge too far.
The vast majority of Americans are fully sickened to our core by the violence visited upon Ukraine every day.
We’ve lived our entire lives in the false comfort of the belief that a fascist takeover can’t happen here. But it can and it is—and soon, whether we want to believe it or not, we’re all going to find ourselves in situations like the people in Idaho did.
All we need to do now, is to all become wealthy, white Christian Republican Congressmen and we'll be set. Or, maybe those of us who are not need to make our voices heard.
America is not yet near where Germany was at the peak of Hitler's power, but Germany wasn't always there either, and that is the point.
Silence in the face of oppression is compliance, it's participation.
May we who oppose the cruelty on display, never become so devoid of lightness that we resemble those who celebrate that cruelty.
America isn’t just some New Jersey casino, Florida country club, or New York City high-rise that a madman and his kids get to stick their names on and suck dry for their benefit.
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