America is seeing a rise in far-right extremism, and the far-right is not trying to hide their existence or their dangerous fascistic agenda.
White nationalist Vincent James is proudly embracing criticisms the far right is the “Christian Taliban.”
“We are the Christian Taliban,” he says in video posted by Right Wing Watch. “This is the era of Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is on the rise and people are thirsty for it. They are hungry for this. And we are the Christian Taliban. And we will not stop until ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a reality and even worse than that,” he brags.
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” a 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, tells the tale of a dystopian America turned into “Gilead,” a far Christian right theocratic nation in which women are effectively slaves in a patriarchal society – all of which violate the ideals set forth in the U.S. Constitution.
“To be honest, yes, we do have to start rolling back the – there was this article from The Atlantic was like, well, ‘Alito is on a mission to roll back the rights of women. The rollback from past 100 years of rights that were given to women.’ Yes, yes, that is that is what we’re doing. And it’s only going to get worse for you from here.”
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