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I’ll be on Democracy Now! in an hour to talk about Christian nationalism and Trump’s picks, especially two of the scariest, Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee.

Jeff Sharlet julie ingersoll If only more listened to her warnings when she wrote Building God's Kingdom. "If you're surprised by rise of evangelicals into politics you haven't been paying attention." julie ingersoll (The submission of women is a given) youtu.be/V5bKgfJ5amU?fe…

Trump's pick of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon would empower a Christian nationalist and self-described extremist who claims the military is too "woke" for him. "He wants it known that he is too far to the right for the armed forces," says Jeff Sharlet.

Why are you watching this show? Why are you reading these tweets? You don't care so hard that you can't look away?

Democracy Now! Jeff Sharlet Something else about Pete Hegseth.

Thanks. Since I’m neither a Marxist nor a philosopher, my book inevitably falls short of the analyses the reviewer deems essential—they’re not my project—but I’m grateful for his generosity nonetheless. A correction: I *don’t* think Occupy needed demands.

Author Jeff Sharlet warns that Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, is a self-described "extremist" who wants to purge the military of generals seen as disloyal to the next president. democracynow.org/2024/11/15/jef…

. @DemocracyNow! Podcast 'A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts' Nermeen (nermeen shaikh) Shaikh, Amy Goodman, Jeff Sharlet democracynow.org/2024/11/15/jef…

I also checked in with Jeff Sharlet, who writes about fascism for VF and other outlets, and said on election night that "ultimate fighting is the aesthetic of what's to come." I asked him to elaborate. Sharlet has a darker view than Krakauer >> x.com/JeffSharlet/st…

"This is how Trumpism laughs," Sharlet said. "UFC — the melodrama of wrestling, the very real stakes of very real violence — is the embodiment of Trumpism's joking/not-joking rhetorical style. Can't you take a joke? Can't you take a punch? Let's find out."

Venturing back here into the X Contaminated Zone to say I’m over at bsky, and you could cede every critique of it + acknowledge lingering usefulness of this place, & the new place is still better. See you there, I hope.

Vivian Maier, Self-portrait

Lee Hays was born on this day in 1914! As @jeffsharlet wrote for Issue 58, “Lee was a believer…But Lee’s god wasn’t God, it was ‘The People,’ that great abstract many-faced mass.” Read more: shorturl.at/Df5kb

In downtown LA

Don’t Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power ( from Jeff Sharlet) religiondispatches.org/dont-take-the-…

I realized I'd been to the Bible college to which the Minnesota assassin attributes his Christian education, so I wrote about its violent theology. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/on-the-chris…

"Metaphors don’t just reflect reality, they shape it. Like actual war, spiritual war presupposes an enemy so dangerous and so unreasonable that violence is the only logical response." Jeff Sharlet slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/on-the-chris…

Thanks to Religion Dispatches for republishing my article on Vance Boelter's theological background. religiondispatches.org/violent-prayer…