
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

archetypal features of fascist movements—things like “nostalgia for a purer, mythic, often rural past; cults of tradition and cultural regeneration … the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing all other groups … anti-modernism; fetishized patriarchal masculinity.”
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His work is utterly Schmittian, and for him the enemy is the contemporary liberal regime, which he prefers to call, echoing BAP, “gynocracy.” Wolfe writes: “We live under a gynocracy—a rule of women. This may not be apparent on the surface, since men still run many things. But the governing virtues of America are feminine vices, associated with
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7M is a Charismatic, Pentecostal variation on Dominion Theology that delineates the seven distinctive “mountains” that are ripe for Christian takeover and control: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. This is the Charismatic version of Yarvin’s destruction of the Cathedral and “Retire All Government
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Citing studies from 2022, Taylor writes: Belief in modern-day prophecy—and particularly, belief in prophecies about Donald Trump—was both strongly correlated with belief in Trump’s claims of election fraud and a major accelerant for extreme political views, including an openness to supporting violence or lawbreaking in the pursuit of political
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Further, Taylor writes, “Independent Charismatic communities are the epicenter of Christian Trumpism.”26
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Sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry consider Christian nationalism to be a cultural framework—“a collection of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems—that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic life.” They continue: “Understood in this light, Christian nationalism contends that America has
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The problems arise when Crenshaw and others extrapolate to make more sweeping and totalizing claims—saying, for example, as Crenshaw did, that Christianity was the public religion, and the source of American public morality, and that the early Americans sought to establish “a nation whose political institutions, laws, morals, and cultural mores are
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It is distinct from other expressions of Christianity in that it is political and seeks political domination. The writer Katherine Stewart puts the matter clearly: “It does not seek to add another voice to America’s pluralistic democracy, but to replace our foundational democratic principles and institutions with a state grounded on a particular
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The New Right mistakes academic liberalism for the real thing. They assume that liberalism’s embrace of political neutrality means a simple rejection and disavowal of all particular conceptions of the good life, and of values like “truth, liberty, and happiness” (or “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful”), in favor of an empty commitment to
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