Project 2025 Promise 2: Dismantle the Administrative State and Return Self-governance to the American People
Where we explore the 4 Christo-fascist promises and what they mean for YOU (Scroll to the end to listen)
The mainstream media has made much of Project 2025’s promise to gut federal government bureaucracy. Future newsletters will delve into specific policy recommendations. Today, we will focus on the Christo-fascist language embedded in Promise 2.
In “What Is a Christian Nationalist,” (HERE) I laid out seven beliefs Christian Nationalists share. Belief 4 is God’s law (the Bible) should be the basis of our laws.
Many journalists express outrage or bewilderment at Ohio legislators who want to override voters’ choice to enshrine the right to an abortion into the Ohio constitution. Or over Mississippi’s vote to exclude abortion from a constitutional amendment to allow statewide voter referendums.
Christo-fascist Republicans do not acknowledge any law that conflicts with their interpretation of the Bible. They don’t care about an issue’s popularity with voters; they don’t pay attention to polls.
They own this stance in Project 2025:
The next conservative President must possess the courage to relentlessly put the interests of the everyday American over the desires of the ruling elite. Their outrage cannot be prevented; it must simply be ignored. And it can be. The Left derives its power from the institutions they control. But those institutions are only powerful to the extent that constitutional officers surrender their own legitimate authority to them. A President who refuses to do so and uses his or her office to reimpose constitutional authority over federal policymaking can begin to correct decades of corruption and remove thousands of bureaucrats from the positions of public trust they have so long abused.
Project 2025, page 9
At every turn, Christo-fascist Republicans ignore the will of voters. They ignore judicial rulings they don’t like. They ignore election outcomes with which they don’t agree.
Christian Nationalists justify this behavior to themselves as waging holy war. They believe they are fighting to replace godless, evil laws with Biblical edicts from God.
Sound vaguely familiar? That’s because it is Christianized form of Muslim Sharia Law.
Countries that follow the most conservative interpretations of Sharia law have come under fire in recent years due to what many observers, especially those in secular countries, believe are intrusive, restrictive, and at times even inhumane rules, particularly against females. Examples of such draconian Sharia restrictions include barring women from getting an education, forcing them to wear restrictive burqa or niqab veils when leaving the home, and implementing arguably misogynistic laws surrounding the rape of women. Moreover, Sharia punishments can often seem archaic, if not inhumane. These include amputation of the hands as a punishment for theft, 100 lashes for those caught in adultery, and the stoning to death of those who turn away from Islam (the sin of apostasy). To be fair, the burden of proof for such punishments is quite high, so most crimes are punished using much less severe methods. Still, the fact that these punishments exist in the first place is considered by many to be cause for concern.
Source: World Population Review
Christian Nationalists would have our laws adhere to the strictest interpretation of the Bible:
Men are the leaders, the breadwinners
Women stay home, don’t own property, don’t go to school, have as many children as possible, and don’t vote
Non-white people are inferior because God cursed them (ie the Curse of Ham)
All alternative lifestyles are forbidden.
A Christo-fascist government is NOT a recipe for less government. It is NOT a free society. Look at the strictest countries operating under Muslim Sharia law. They are police states where most people live in defeated resignation and/or constant fear.
Consider how the latest proposed anti-abortion law in Oklahoma would impact personal freedoms. Politicians are proposing a government database to track Oklahoma women who’ve had abortions (written with the Christo-fascist group Alliance Defending Freedom.) Several red states have already proposed travel bans for women who may be pregnant. Think about that. In a country where our Constitution guarantees freedom of movement, red states are already using Christo-fascist laws to restrict our Constitutional rights.
How many rights will Christo-fascists take away if they win in November? Personally, I don’t want to find out. Which is why I’m encouraging everyone I know to vote blue for freedom and democracy. It’s why I write this newsletter. We don’t want to live in the country Christo-fascist Republicans envision.
The other thing that stands out to me from this passage is the use of terms like 'elites' and 'corrupt' to describe anyone who disagrees with their agenda. Classic fascism and this particular feature goes well beyond the Christian Nationalists.
Dismantling the administrative state also has strong appeal to the business wing of their party, and it's an example of how these things overlap and work together. Ultimately to defeat them, there have to be fractures in their coalition, because the Christian Nationalists may be the largest and most powerful of the Republican factions, but they're not the only one.
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership keeps breathing life into this worldview, and the Republican Congress grumbles behind a veil of anonymity, rather than calling it out for what it is: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/21/congress/johnsons-sermon-to-gop-retreagt-00142436