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I have a lot of (new, not classical) liberal friends and tend to trawl liberal and progressive-adjacent spaces on the internet. I’ve seen and heard an uptick in references to electing Trump leading to “white Christian fascism” or a “Christian fascist dictatorship”. It is those exact phrases.
I’ve tried to google the phrases and where this line of thought originated but the internet is awash in fascism-related commentary on Trump in general, none of it which specifically utilizes the exact phrase “white Christian fascism” or “Christian fascist dictatorship”. Would any of you have an idea of where this began?
In case you just hand wave to general news coverage, I should note that I do not read or watch mainstream news. I work in a policy-related position and tend to read (almost never watch) primarily trade-related publications with WSJ, FT, The Motte, and StupidPol forming the bulk of my general news sources.
If you're looking for more in that vein, try searching for "Christian Dominionism" or "Dominion Theology". My impression is that this is a thing that only a handful of people actually believe in, but that it's been picked up by the left as a catchall umbrella term for many unrelated movements, to claim that everything involved is as extreme as this particular worst case scenario. (The parallels to "woke" are there, but it's not a precise match, as my impression is that most people whom the right calls "woke" will, if pushed, refuse to publicly denounce people and policies associated with "woke", but that this isn't the case for people whom the left calls "dominionist".)
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