...the upteeth similar statement from Democratic electeds that strikes me as wrong-headed because it sounds as if they are talking to "us" Democrats who aren't the ones that have been brainwashed to believe that anyone who doesn't support the Christian Nationalist MAGA agenda are subhuman (from Posobeic), or "animals" or radicals or criminals or whatever else might justify the urge to "wipe them (us) out."
I'm not annoyed by Shapiro, per se. I'm annoyed by calls to turn down the "temperature" from any Democratic leader that don't include a little reality about who is "turning it up" and who superheated "the temperature" the minute they started following fucking Newt Gingrich's playbook. And now MAGA has taken dehumanizing "the other side" to levels that even Gingrich couldn't have imagined way back when.
We need to start recognizing that a vast majority of Americans oppose their shit, and start talking like it.
Our federal election system is so gerrymandered the make up of Congress has nothing to do with the will of the American people.
According to a February 2025 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), about two-thirds of Americans (66%) oppose Christian nationalism.
The way some of our electeds are talking it sounds to me like they've accepted that we are a majority Christian Nationalist nation and so they feel they need to try to "win over" those people. Give it the f up. There is no appeasing them and a vast majority oppose them!
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I just want to scream at some* of our Democratic electeds "For Goodness Sake, BE PROUD OF WHO HATES YOU!"**
*I know we have plenty who get it right. But I think the ones who get it wrong stand out to me -- sort of like fingernails on a chalk board.
** A little corollary. If a group hates you and you think they have a point, perhaps rethink what you are doing.
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