Published in the shadow of an impending national election, Red Pill, Blue Pill didn’t receive the attention it deserved.
This is one of the key takeaways from David Neiwert’s essential book, Red Pill, Blue Pill (Prometheus, 2020). It’s some of the clearest evidence that one of America’s two major political parties is now an unmistakably authoritarian movement, and that it’s unlikely to be reformed in the near term. Humans have been unreasonable for a long time, of course, but the particular blend of religious nationalism, extreme partisanship, and bonkers-level irrationalism on display here is something new and dangerous in mainstream American politics.
And finally, they are disposed to believe in-or at least to promote-unsubstantiated or disproven claims and conspiracy theories. They’re all committed and partisan Republicans. What do these individuals have in common? They are, in the first place, advocates for Christian nationalist ideas-meaning that they promote the myth that America is by origin and by right a Christian nation, that it’s lost its way at the hands of a militant secular elite, and that white Christians in particular are now the principal victims of persecution in American society. During an Easter service, he told his Tennessee congregation to “take them stupid masks off.” Greg Locke, a pastor who whipped up the crowds at the #StopTheSteal-themed rallies in the lead-up up to the Jan 6 th insurrection, seems to think that he knows the real story about social distancing. In December 2020, she signed a letter from the Conservative Action Project calling for members of the Senate to “contest the electoral votes.” And she continues to press ahead with Republican-led efforts to suppress votes as chair of the conservative activist group, Public Interest Legal Foundation. September, 2020 Cleta Mitchell, who’s been a member of the Council for National Policy’s board of governors and who participated in the former president’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, appears to be more certain than ever of the fraudulent claim that Donald Trump was cheated of re-election through voter fraud.
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