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It's not Trump.  It's the Southern Baptist Church.  Trump is their weapon of choice.
In 1988 I came out as gay.  Conservatives were quite vocal about their hate for me.  Misinformation and an attempt to block my ability to pursue happiness was rampant.  This forced me when engaging them to be informed and counter act all the misinformation, lies and violence on their side.  
At some point I realized if the Republicans are lying about LGBT issues.  What else do they just lie about and I researched their lies on Abortion, Immigration and more.  It was then I decided that anything a Republican said or did had to be looked at very closely because it was usually against the ideals of our democracy.  This all led to me becoming a democrat and an atheist >

I'm.sorry that happened to you.  I hope it's gotten better. >

Yeah if only the media did their job the last 25 years and reported accurately rather than doing both sides and whataboutisms.
When future historians look back at the decline of the United States I’m sure there will be whole courses taught on the failing of the media due to corporate interests and profit motives. 
It’s not the only reason but it played a role to get us where we are today >

Let's face it, capitalism is killing everything, including capitalism. It's literal cancer and will be the end of us if we don't start moving way more left and democratic socialist soon. >

No one with a conscience ought vote for any Republican for any office, be it local, state, or federal, for the next generation.  They are an existential threat to democracy and civilization. >

Yes. It's been clear for a long time now to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention. Mid-Trump presidency I had a family member tell me they were hearing at their church that "democracy isn't Biblical." 
We're in serious trouble. I appreciate the reporting documenting this. I'd much rather hear about plans and ideas to fight back against them, because there seems to be a real lack of urgency or solutions so far. >

Not all of us have family members in those churches. I was raised in evangelical fundamentalism and remember Onward Christian Soldiers and the Christian Flag. But I don't remember sermons against the electoral process. Thank you for mentioning that. I think it is new or newish. >

I think what's happening is that they're being more blatant and obvious about it now.  
Any church that told you to vote for someone because it was the "Christian" thing to do was in fact participating in the war on Democracy, because the candidates they were supporting were always pro-authoritarian. >

they simply want the hell they imagined. >

They think that if we create hell on earth a magic man will fly down from the sky and take them to an amusement park beyond space >

They are a death cult. At best, they are the American Taliban.  At worst, American Islamic State Christian Style. >

Damnit you found out about us. >

Republicans hate democracy. They would never win another election without voter suppression and gerrymandering and they know it. That’s why they turn to fascism. >

The corruption & authoritarianism is endemic to the GOP. Trump is a symptom of it, not the cause. >

Trump made it cool to be a sociopath in that party.  A complete and utter fraud. >

All GOP roads seem to lead back to dark foreign money, particularly Russia. This is Putin’s war on Democracy. He knows how to manipulate and control the class of susceptible “humans” who will sell their souls and destroy the world for a dime in their pockets and a chance to puff their chests on the world stage. >

The question is, how far will all this go? Look back at how quaint and innocent 2016 was compared to now. I fear what 2030 will look like if we don't squash this rising fascism. >

GOP wants the Wild West, where women did what they were told and gun fights are the way to settle things. >

Not even the Wild West was the Wild West.  Do you know what was the most common first law passed by new towns in the west?  Banning guns in town.  Cowboys that were escorting herds through the wilderness needed guns as a multi-use tool, but they had to leave them behind when they came to town. >

Not to mention that fully 30% of cowboys were black, and another sizable chunk were indigenous or Latino. And then there's the bit about how women often ran their own brothels, and how trans folk were able to be out and much more accepted than on the Eastern seaboard, and a whole lot of other details that get left right out of the popular mythos of the West. >

Group Of Pricks >

For heaven's sake, it never was just trump!  Never has!  To anyone paying attention, it's been all GOP for decades now. >

All my republican relatives always have some Fox News stoked bullshit excuse for all the awful shit republicans continue to do! I no longer talk to any of them they are horrible people! >


Trump is out of office, but the rate of Republicans filing anti-democracy lawsuits in 2022 stayed the same

It's almost as if this is something that predates and runs much deeper than Trump. >

Most of us didn’t need a report to figure this out >

Been going on for decades, Trump just happened to yell it the loudest. The next crew will be quieter about it. >

Who is the GOP loyal to? What country do they actually serve? Not America. For all the trillions this country has spent on defense, the russians just spread some cash around and manifested the collapse of two nations (UK) and almost no one has said a word about it.