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(Mother Jones) Take their grievance against “woke capitalism”—which really means businesses responding to consumer expectations in a manner that bolsters the bottom line—a complaint that flies in the face of the free-market worship that is core to mainstream figures on the right. Fuentes circumvents this contradiction by just never defending capitalism. Unlike many elected Republicans, he does not argue against diversity while claiming he isn’t racist—he openly argues diversity is bad because of his belief in the inferiority of nonwhite races. …If there is a right-wing belief that involves obfuscating an unsavory motivation, Fuentes is open about it. He speaks to the people who don’t mind saying everything out loud.
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Fuentes…began…live¬streams that would make him a far-right star from his parents’ home. After enrolling at Boston University, he would broadcast nightly from the dorms. He grew more radical and established a campus reputation as an Islamophobic Trump supporter. He claimed persecution, likening the grief students gave him for wearing a MAGA hat to being discriminated against for being Black or wearing a hijab. When campus conservatives tapped him for an election debate against BU’s student president, Fuentes seized every opportunity to antagonize the audience. After claiming that “multiculturalism is a cancer” and trolling the crowd as “godless hippies,” Fuentes admitted to a student journalist that “it wouldn’t be fun if it wasn’t ugly.” After Trump took office, he told the Boston Globe that “Trump is a rocket ship…And everyone is trying to attach themselves to it.”
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“‘All men are equal’ is an ideological statement. Where is the scientific proof for it?” Fuentes read. “You can’t beat that!” he exclaimed. “When he says something like that, I say, ‘Okay, it’s not unpatriotic to believe this stuff. It’s not nonconservative, neo-Nazi stuff. It’s totally legit.’”

… after he was banned from Twitter in July 2021, he lost discipline. That November, after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of killing two people amid racial-justice demonstrations in Wisconsin, Fuentes openly admitted to being racist. Two months later, he used the n-word while streaming.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The White House rebuked Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin this week for supporting state lawmakers' rejection of a bill that that would have prohibited police from issuing search warrants for digitized data about women’s menstrual cycles.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday that the Republican governor's push to block the bill at a time when abortion access is diminishing “attacks the principles of freedom and a woman’s fundamental right to privacy," the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

Virginia’s Democrat-controlled state Senate had passed the bill 31-9, with nine Republicans joining Democrats to send it to the House, where Republicans hold a majority. A Republican-controlled House subcommittee voted along party lines Monday to table the measure, with Youngkin’s support.

Youngkin spokesperson Macaulay Porter defended the governor's position to the Times-Dispatch and said the data-gathering limits that Democrats had proposed were “unsafe.”

10 March 2023

Emmanuel Centre in London in May provides evidence of the growing influence of US Christian Nationalism in the UK.

Held in several countries, NCCs are aligned with Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire behind the data and surveillance company Palantir.

Thiel is one of the main financial backers of Republican politics over the past decade and last year funded campaigns to replace Republican candidates who didn’t support accusations questioning the validity of the 2020 presidential election. Alongside Charlie Kirk, founder of university-based culture war outfit Turning Point, Thiel is a signatory of the National Conservatism movement’s statement of principles and has been a speaker at most NCC events. He is due to speak at the London event.

Like the Hungarian CPAC covered by the Byline Times, the National Conservatism movement seeks to advance an agenda of Christian Nationalism. Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s political director Balzas Orban is involved in the initiative and was a speaker at the previous London conference in 2019.

Speakers at other NCCs include numerous high-profile Republicans such as Florida’s controversial Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Marco Rubio, former Trump advisor John Bolton, Senator Josh Hawley who led efforts in the Senate to overturn the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.

25-04-2023 16:43

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church has represented something of particular interest to American Christian conservatives, and vice-versa.

For many years, and especially since 2011, the two have been working together in their goal to spread their vision of traditional social values against the cultural corruption of ‘liberalism’ and ‘tolerance’.

This suits Vladimir Putin’s agenda as he presents western liberalism as a disintegration of traditional moral values. So, unlike other post-1917 Russian leaders, he offers the church state legitimacy whilst the Russian Orthodox Church acts as a soft power arm of his regime with a shared vision of a ‘Greater Russia’ and therefore a significantly larger congregation. It strongly supports Putin in his war against Ukraine and even dedicated a cathedral to the Russian military in 2020.

In May 2011, the Russian Orthodox Church declared that Orthodox and American evangelical Christians hold the same views on matters such as abortion, the family and marriage and that they both seek “vigorous grassroots engagement” between the two groups in those areas. An alliance between the American Christian right, until then fervently anti-Russian, and the Moscow-centered Russian church was born.

The Christian right’s grip on the Republican Party (the GOP), goes back to the ‘moral majority’ movements of the 1970s. These evangelical movements are many and varied and they have more often than not allied to the right on the basis of traditional family values. In the mid-1990s conservative Christian intellectuals, Eastern Orthodox Churches in the States, and the Christian right, issued the Manhattan Declaration around three concepts: life, marriage and religious liberty.

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