There is no question that Trumpism is an extreme political religion. Hitler and Mussolini enriched themselves by writing and selling their writings but Trump's also wants to make money with sacred texts. In this case Trump desperately needs money. Trump's conflation of the Bible with doing business and his own comparisons with Jesus's suffering ideas are separate dimensions of the same phenomenon, namely the fascist tendency to make the leader a God-like figure who is not exempted from corrupted practices. The MAGA movement pushes its religiosity into the most bizarre form of greed. His most recent book is " A Brief History of Fascist Lies." These interviews have been lightly edited for clarity and length:įederico Finchelstein is a professor of history at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York. In an attempt to better understand Trump’s Bibles and how they relate to the larger democracy crisis, I recently spoke to a range of experts. Trump’s followers are desperate and eager to earn his blessings and will do almost anything – including violence – for the personal fascist lord and savior and cult leader. "Never forget": Trump unloads on Republican "cowards and weaklings" in Easter Sunday meltdownĪs the 2024 election approaches, and the pressure from the hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and legal expenses increases, and his criminal trials (finally) begin, Trump will only escalate his claims of godhood and divine status and power. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. Trump then “celebrated” Easter Sunday by issuing the following paranoid, conspiratorial, lie, and threatening pronouncement on his Truth Social disinformation platform: This is another threat of assassination and murder by Donald Trump against President Biden. On Friday (“Good Friday” in the Christian Holy Week), Trump wallowed in his love of violence by sharing an image of President Biden, bound and gagged in the back of a pickup truck. "One of America’s most enduring faiths isn’t Christianity, Islam or Judaism - it’s White supremacy." Trump basically views his MAGA followers and other “Christians” as useful idiots who are a source of narcissistic energy, money and other resources for him. Of course, Trump does not worship God or Jesus Christ he has shown himself to be a megalomaniac and malignant narcissist who only worships himself (and of course money and other forms of power). But by definition, his behavior is blasphemous and an example of idolatry. Trump has publicly and repeatedly stated that he is a Christian. On Tuesday, Donald Trump continued to honor Holy Week by announcing that he is selling his own version of the Bible. Why? Because Trump is finally facing some type of real accountability from the law for his decades-long obvious crime spree. On Monday of the Easter Holy Week, Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social disinformation platform where he appeared to compare himself to Jesus Christ being tortured on the Cross. Donald Trump is the high priest and Dear Leader. Trumpism and the MAGA movement are American fascism’s largest and most popular denomination and sect. As such, fascism is antithetical to real democracy and normal politics. It is a social force based on faith and emotion and corrupt power more than a coherent ideology grounded in reason, facts and the truth. American fascism is a form of political religion.
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