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Trumpism

Nyquil is “Baptist wine” and more things I learned from the recent Vanity Fair piece on the Falwells.

John Fea   |  January 24, 2022

Check out Gabriel Sherman’s piece on Jerry Falwell Jr. at Vanity Fair. Here are a few of the new things I learned from it: Falwell Jr. claims that he is not religious: “Subconsciously, yeah, I believe that’s true,” he said, […]

University of Rhode Island revokes honorary doctorates

John Fea   |  January 22, 2022

Here is CBS News: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will no longer hold honorary degrees from the University of Rhode Island, the school announced Friday. The Board of Trustees and the president […]

Trump was planning to use the military to seize voting machines following the 2020 election

John Fea   |  January 21, 2022

Politico got access to some of the materials from the National Archives that were recently turned over to the January 6, 2021 House of Representative select committee. Among the papers was a Trump executive order directing the Department of Defense […]

Trump-JFK Jr. in 2024!!

John Fea   |  January 18, 2022

It’s a winning ticket! 🙂 Here is Meridith McGraw at Politico: Ray Kallatsa is a die-hard Trumper who “definitely” wants to see former President Donald Trump run for office again in 2024. So it was natural that he’d travel from […]

David Blight on fighting the Trumpian Lost Cause

John Fea   |  January 17, 2022

The Yale historian wants us to keep battling for democracy. Here is a taste of his piece at The Guardian: On 6 January 2021, an American mob, orchestrated by the most powerful man in the land, along with many congressional […]

Ivy leaguers who are trying to destroy American democracy

John Fea   |  January 12, 2022

What do Josh Hawley, Steve Mnuchin, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Elise Stefanik, and Kayleigh McEnany have in common? They all have degrees from Ivy League institutions and they are all, in one […]

I was with Greg Locke for the first fifty seconds…

John Fea   |  January 11, 2022

Watch the Tennessee megachurch pastor: Please get vaccinated and boosted! The vaccine is safe and effective.

The political philosophy of candidate J.D. Vance

John Fea   |  January 5, 2022

As many of you know, the author of Hillbilly Elegy is running for a United States Senate seat from Ohio as a national (Trump) conservative. Over at The Washington Post, Simon van Zuylen-Wood offers one of the best profiles of […]

Resounding gongs and clanging symbols at Charlie Kirk’s “America Fest”

John Fea   |  December 24, 2021

Charlie Kirk’s pro-Trump, God and country organization Turning Point USA recently hosted a conference called “America Fest.” Thousands of college students, fresh off of final exams, showed-up in Phoenix to attend the event. Let’s see how things went: Colorado congresswoman […]

Associated Press: There was no voter fraud in the 2020 election

John Fea   |  December 15, 2021

The AP examined “every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states.” Here is a taste of Christina Cassiday’s piece: An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by […]

California congressman Devin Nunes is retiring to become CEO of Donald Trump’s media company

John Fea   |  December 6, 2021

We all know Devin Nunes by this point. Some of you may recall the so-called “Nunes Memo.” This is also the guy who told everyone to go out and eat at their favorite restaurant in March 2020. Earlier this year […]

The right wing echo chamber is growing

John Fea   |  December 6, 2021

In a 2009 New York Times column Nicholas Kristof brought attention to The Daily Me. He wrote: When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that […]

Conservative commentators Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg are leaving Fox News

John Fea   |  November 22, 2021

They are leaving because of the “voices of the responsible” commentators “are being drowned-out by the irresponsible.” The tipping point was Patriot Purge, a three-part documentary hosted by Tucker Carlson. Here are Hayes and Goldberg: The special—which ran on Fox’s […]

Tweet of the day: “They told us we were electing a president, not a pastor . . . but that president sure did disciple a lot of people”

John Fea   |  November 17, 2021

Former Liberty University fellow and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis helped plan the attempted undoing of the 2020 election

John Fea   |  November 15, 2021

Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark […]

The voters in the York Suburban (PA) school district reject Trumpism

John Fea   |  November 5, 2021

It is good to see the people of the York Suburban district reject the craziness. Sometimes democracy works. Here is Mike Argento of the York Daily Record: The York Suburban School Board race was, by any measure, a messy affair. […]

Rick Santorum lands at Newsmax

John Fea   |  November 3, 2021

CNN fired him after he gave a lecture to the Young America’s Foundation and said, “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native […]

More on the new Lost Cause

John Fea   |  October 19, 2021

Are we seeing a new Lost Cause? David Graham of The Atlantic thinks so. So do these scholars and writers: The Evangelical Lost Cause comes to Orlando Are conservatives advancing a new Lost Cause? The Evangelical Lost Cause is alive […]

Victor Davis Hanson on leaving the NATIONAL REVIEW

John Fea   |  October 6, 2021

If you want to understand the divided state of American conservatism (if you can call it that) right now,, check out this taste of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Victor Davis Hanson: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I didn’t know much about Donald […]

More on that blasphemous pro-Trump bulletin board

John Fea   |  September 18, 2021

We posted about this blasphemous billboard last week. Heather Greene at Religion News Service has more: The billboard is situated on a well-traveled commuter route in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, near the border of Tennessee. Historically known for being the site […]

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