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It Was All a Lie review: Trump as symptom not cause of Republican decline https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/02/it-was-all-a-lie-review-trump-republican-party?CMP=share_btn_tw When I first wrote about the Christian Right, after having been a senior intelligence analyst, my first two chapters were the "epistemological break with reality" and the "drive for
2/ and dominion." Not of the GOP. Of the Christian Right. There are 3 drivers of the catastrophe. The Christian Right, their corporate funding, and the GOP. The "Patriot" militia are the armed wing of the Christian Right.
3/ Book 1 Ch 2 Ver 1.0: The Drive for Power and Dominion https://www.academia.edu/37323112/Book_1_Ch_2_Ver_1.0_The_Drive_for_Power_and_Dominion via @academia
4/ Book 1 Ch 1 Ver 1.0: The Christian Right's Epistemological Break With Reality and Fourth Generation Warfare https://www.academia.edu/37323542/Book_1_Ch_1_Ver_1.0_The_Christian_Rights_Epistemological_Break_With_Reality_and_Fourth_Generation_Warfare via @academia
5/ Which is why if you do not have the Christian Right as a strong independent variable in your historical analysis, you miss a significant chunk of the explanation.
