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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.
I agree with the other commenters saying this is basically a left wing bogeyman, but I will say that Christian fascists absolutely do exist, see Stone Choir, Corey J. Mahler's substack and Twitter, and this one guy duking it out with the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod (though he's more just Christian nationalist instead of dipping into the Hitler-was-right sort of thing). Obviously not huge, and if I didn't have a relative throwing this crap in my face, I would laugh at them and move on. Trump is pretty far from this kind of thing.
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