Morning Briefing: 'New Right' Christian Nationalists and Imposition of 'God's Law'
"New Right" Christian Nationalists argue that "traditional Christian morality" should be restored, and GOP candidate for Attorney General in Maryland campaigns on implementing "God's Law."
Morning Briefing: During a conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville, several so-called "New Right" nationalists “articulated a vision of the United States… where traditional Christian morality is restored to a central place in society and mainstream culture, and where leaders in government are comfortable using political power to enforce those religious values and punish ‘woke’ progressives.”
Michael Peroutka, the Republican candidate for Maryland Attorney General, “has made clear that if he is elected, his view of Christianity will determine his decisions. And he has said that as attorney general he will not support laws enacted by the legislature if he believes they are in conflict with his understanding of God’s law.”
Far right extremists groups such as the Arizona chapter of the Oath Keepers are concerning local voting rights advocates, and these “fringe anti-government groups are planning to watch drop boxes and the polls in Arizona, spurred by conspiracy theories.”
Antonio Lamotta and Joshua Macias, arrested in 2020 for carrying guns near polling places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were found “guilty of two gun charges each, ruling that the men — Donald Trump supporters who drove to the city in a Hummer loaded with handguns, an assault rifle, and ammunition — had carried weapons in the city without proper permits on Nov. 5, 2020, as votes were being tabulated.”
Since the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack began holding public hearings, witnesses that have provided testimony have been the subject of online threats, which are part of a “broader pattern of violent threats on fringe social networks directed at witnesses testifying before Congress about the Capitol insurrection.”
Federal law enforcement officials within the FBI allegedly “may have felt ‘sympathetic’ to the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, someone warned in an email sent to a top FBI official a week after the attack.”
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