...did we all miss that fascist theocracy has been the goal of American evangelicals and fundamentalists since (the beginning) at least the 1980s?

It amazes me how often we give nuclear launch authority to people who claim to speak directly to God (Reagan, Bush II, Trump, Pence) https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1306727615437381632

Have a thread of shit I think about when Americans accuse other countries of being run/filled with death cult religious fanatics...

(who are therefore irrational and can’t be allowed to have nukes).

It’s not a short thread. https://twitter.com/nuclearanthro/status/1078860752595767302

Speaking of religious fundamentalism inappropriately shaping US foreign and domestic policy:

what do you think drives Pompeo etc’s desire for war with Iran? The constant bloviating about Israel? The intransigence to oft or seriously consider anything but force?

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s outstanding short story “Young Goodman Brown” (only ten pages!) is an outstanding, early American critique of the inherent anti-sociality of the rigid, divisive, & deeply paranoid manichean religious imaginaries he observed.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/f1124y-001/resources/Young_Goodman_Brown.pdf

I will close out this thread with a link to The Paranoid Style in American Politics.

There is a lot I would quibble or argue with but also still valuable and a classic. https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/