Here is Andrew Seidman at The Philadelphia Inquirer: He went on the podcast hosted by former Donald Trump aide and “Stop the Steal” leader Steve Bannon. He named a former Trump campaign lawyer who tried to overturn Pennsylvania’s election a...
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The question Josh Shapiro should ask Doug Mastriano in the first Pennsylvania gubernatorial debate
Mastriano believes that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He believes in the Big Lie. Josh Shapiro, his Democratic opponent in the 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, should ask him this question: Would you have done what Mike Pence did on...
On Martin’s Potato Rolls, Messiah University, and Doug Mastriano
I am not going to say much about James Walsh’s story. I helped him with it. We had multiple phone calls. I tried to get him to see the complexity of the Pennsylvania Anabaptist community, particularly as it relates to...
More on Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano’s affiliation with a Conservative Mennonite Church
We reported on this on May 19, 2022. Apparently Doug Mastriano and his family attends Pond Bank Mennonite Church in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Now Tim Huber, a writer at Anabaptist World, reports on it: CMC executive director Brian Hershberger told Anabaptist World by...
Mastriano compares gun control to Nazism
He is a “historian with a doctor in history.” No historian worth his salt would make such a sloppy and manipulative comparison. Watch: Mastriano’s claim here has been widely debunked and/or problematized. Also here. Also here. Get up to speed...
Eastern University alumni ask university to rescind Doug Mastriano’s 2009 “Alumnus of the Year” award
Frankly, I am surprised Eastern, a Christian college with a rather progressive political history–think Bryan Stevenson, Shane Claiborne, Roberta Hestenes, Ron Sider, Tony Campolo–would give Mastriano such an award. The committee must not have known about this 2001 paper. Here...
On Doug Mastriano’s 2001 paper “The Civilian Putsch of 2018”
Here is Greg Jaffee of The Washington Post with some context: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin...
Satanic Portals, HIS-story, and Doug Mastriano
The Christian Right seems incapable of democratic conversation
Where does Doug Mastriano go to church?
It’s an interesting question. Where does the GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, a pro-Trump, Big Lie-believing, Christian nationalist attend church? I did some digging today with the help of some friends on Twitter: Leave it to two guys with...
The politics of spiritual warfare is clearly present in the Mastriano campaign
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Christian Right websites from the early 21st century and I am struck by the difference between the political rhetoric of evangelical politicians then and evangelical politicians now. In the early 2000s, evangelical politicians–George...
Why Pennsylvania Democrats are hoping Christian nationalist Doug Mastriano gets the GOP nomination for governor
We have covered Mastriano before at this blog. Get up to speed on this guy here. Watch this piece by CNN: The Pennsylvania GOP knows that Mastriano will hurt them in the general election and are trying to stop him...
Doug Mastriano announces his Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign by blowing a shofar
Regular readers of this blog know a thing or two about Doug Mastriano. You can get up to speed on the antics of this pro-Trump state senator here. Last weekend Mastriano announced his candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania. American Idol...
Pennsylvania counties will not comply with state senator Doug Mastriano’s audit request
We covered this here. Sara Murray has the story at CNN: A Pennsylvania Republican’s effort to launch a ballot audit of the 2020 results in the Keystone State has hit a roadblock after three counties declined to hand over their election materials...
Doug Mastriano is at it again
The Christian nationalist Pennsylvania senator with a hotline to Trump is initiating something called a “forensic investigation” of the 2020 election. Here is Mastriano at his website: A forensic investigation of our election results and processes for the 2020 General...
Doug Mastriano’s Christian nationalism
We have covered Doug Mastriano before. Check out our posts on the controversial Pennsylvania state senator here. Mastriano is the subject of Eliza Griswold’s recent piece at The New Yorker. Here is a taste: Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator...
Who is Doug Mastriano, the Pennsylvania state senator leading today’s hearing on voter fraud?
As I type, members of the Pennsylvania legislature are hearing testimony from Rudy Giuliani and those who supposedly witnessed election fraud on November 3. The event is hosted by state senator Doug Mastriano. He represents Pennsylvania’s 33rd district. He is...
The GOP is trying to defend the most corrupt president in United States history
Historians will have the last say, but in the meantime here is a taste of Jonathan Chait’s recent piece at New York Magazine: At this point, even with the hearings in progress, it seems safe to rate this as the...
It’s time to drain the swamp
I knew Trump’s catchphrase, “drain the swamp” would one day be good for something. Those watching the January 6th hearings are witnessing the machinations of the most corrupt president in American history and the people who stood with him and...
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “Matthew McConaughey Goes Home“ Christine Bieber Lake, “Top Gun: The Joys We Can Imagine. The Joys We (Still) Can’t.“ John Fea, “The Trump Generation Is a Lost Cause.”...
The Trump Generation Is a Lost Cause
The hope of American democracy depends on the long game