U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s pattern of pushing for a religious takeover of America, spreading falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election and warning of an impending judgment day amounts t…
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, far left, holds her hand in the air at Wearhouse 25 during a party for her re-election bid for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Grand Junction.
“It’s the idea that government power should be in the hands of ‘real Americans’ and those ‘real Americans’ are defined by an ethnoreligious category that usually entails white conservative Christians,” Kristin Kobes DuMez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, said. “This is not compatible with democracy.”
Current examples of religious nationalists include Vladimir Putin, of Russia, Viktor Orbán, of Hungary and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Turkey, according to Katherine Stewart, an investigative journalist whose 2020 book, “The Power Worshippers”, focuses on the rise of religious nationalism. Political leaders like these bind themselves to ultraconservative religious figures in their countries to consolidate authoritarian, political power.
“It is a political phenomenon that involves the exploitation of religion for political purposes,” Stewart added. “I think of it as combining two things. On the one hand, it is a set of ideas or an ideology. On the other hand, it is a political movement, an organized quest for power.”The movement is also evolving, DuMez said. Christian nationalists aren’t as subtle as they once were. Some, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia,Other contemporaries mentioned by the experts include Sen.
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