Tag: denial
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Quotations from Speaker Mike
“I am a Christian” “I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a life-long conservative, constitutional law attorney and a small business owner in that order,” Louisiana state Representative Mike Johnson told the Louisiana Baptist Message in 2016, “and I think that order is important.” In 2016 when first elected to Congress Johnson, his wife Kelly, and…
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Republican Authoritarianism and Fascism
President Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 rally before the White House. Three large screens show a close-up of Trump’s face, looking like Big Brother from Orwell’s “1984.” (John Minchillo, Associated Press) Author, historian, and culture critic Ruth Ben Ghiat was on The New Abnormal to answer the question nobody is asking: What stage of the fascist…