Doesn’t sound very Christlike, does it?
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REVIEW: What a Silent Film From 1916 Can Teach Us About Far-Right Hypocrisy Today
D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” released in 1915, is widely regarded as one of the most hateful films ever created. It glorifies the racist terror perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan, while demonizing the Black people those crimes were perpetrated against.
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DAVIS: What the Media Still Doesn’t Understand About Christian Nationalism
A few months ago, I was cautiously optimistic that the national news media had started paying attention to Christian nationalism – a movement which I and many others view as one of the most pressing threats to American democracy, and which is a major animating force behind Donald Trump’s current presidential campaign, but is rarely discussed as either. After seeing how the national media covered Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s recent appearance at a traveling revival carnival helmed by one of that movement’s leaders, though, I realized my optimism was clearly misplaced. Some in the media are paying attention, but they still aren’t getting it; what they think is a sideshow is actually the main event.
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In Praise of Lengthy Campaign Seasons
When Joe Biden and Donald Trump made their decision to run again for office, I was thinking “This is no good.” In fact, I was certain it was a terribly awful, horribly bad predicament we were facing. How had it come to this, that we were looking at a rematch of the aged – men who had long ago stopped putting in a full, hard day’s work, if ever, and who had clearly chosen to ignore what millions of us were thinking about their severely diminished fitness to hold that powerful position.
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How a Terrorism Exhibit in Colorado Distorts the Story of Jan. 6
When the CELL first opened in 2008, Melanie Pearlman, the executive director, remarked to a Denver Post reporter that the exhibit transcended partisanship. Everyone could agree, after all, that terrorism should be countered.
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Trump’s Call for ‘Remigration’ Is Another Sign That He Wants To Create Fascist America
The twice-impeached former president, Donald Trump, introduced a new word into political discourse last month: “remigration.”
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Letter to the Editor: Should a State Legislator Participate in an ‘Anti-Government Group?’
"Moms for Liberty and its nationwide chapters combat what they consider the 'woke indoctrination' of children by advocating for book bans in school libraries and endorsing candidates for public office that align with the group's views."
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DAVIS: Keeping Local Politics Local in Alamosa
An old adage insists that “all politics is local,” but it’s not true. The rapid advance of the internet age has flipped the adage on its head: these days, all politics is national. With Fox News, CNN, and Facebook blasting their signals into every corner of the once vast and untrammeled wilderness, truly local issues have fallen by the wayside. Now, local races are dominated by the headwinds of national political discourse, and local candidates are incentivized to rhetorically overextend themselves in service of signaling to the tribe. It is a politics of pantomime, with potholes and passing lanes supplanted by abortion and immigration as the issues du jour – in races for offices which will have no jurisdiction over either – and too few candidates speaking to the particulars and prerogatives of the positions they seek.