It is a very strange story of how the Cult of the Shining City originated, but it is the hidden history of America and how we arrived at this bizarre, terrifying moment. To understand America and our politics, you have to learn that history.
Now, during a deadly pandemic, these white-identity evangelicals believe they are immune to the disease because it is a holy plague from their racist God. It is a death cult obsessed with wrath and apocalyptic reckonings.

They’ll literally watch Americans die and rejoice.
The history of the Cult of the Shining City, the Right Wing, white identity evangelical cult that has dominated American culture for decades, is a continuation of Confederate Christianity revived by Jerry Falwell and mixed with Ronald Reagan’s hypercapitalism.

It is a poison.
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