An Evil Demigod in the White House

The Crucifixion of Liberty, created by Max T. Furr on 7/18/2024

I am reminded of a quote from George Orwell’s classic novel, Animal Farm: “All Animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

As it turns out, Animal Farm may be the perfect allegory for the USA if the Trump-Vance team assumes the “throne” in November. Non-Christian Americans may be facing the darkest future of all—the return of inforced anti-blasphemy laws across the nation.

According to an editorial today in The Guardian by Sidney Blumenthal, “Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee endorsed the party platform, a document that contained a plank pledging to create a new federal agency to defend Christian nationalism: ‘To protect Religious Liberty, Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America.’”

When far-right Christians speak of religious freedom, they do not mean religious freedom for all, because they’ve never accepted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of conscience for every citizen in matters of religion. They want Christian dominance in American society, i.e., a theocracy.

Therefore, the only way to prevent such an occurrence is for either a Democratic President to win in November or for congressional Democrats to gain a supermajority in Congress.