The Christian Right Adopts a 50-State Strategy.

[elleng]

*Since 2014, Mr. Domen has been leading Church United, a group he founded with the aim of “helping pastors transform California at the government and church level.” If the Republican Party holds on to its congressional majority in 2018 and the presidency in 2020, it will be thanks in part to the efforts of Mr. Domen and others like him.

This month in Washington, at the Road to Majority conference, an annual gathering of conservative religious activists, I heard Marsha Blackburn, a Republican representative from Tennessee who is running to replace Senator Bob Corker, sum up the national picture.

“You all have heard that the democrats say they’re going to have a big blue wave,” she said, as the audience tittered. “We have to make certain that blue wave goes crashing into the great red wall.” With a nod to the west, she added, “It looks like they had a little red-wall building going on in California this week.”

California may look to the world like a blue state. But, as Ms. Blackburn knows, it has large swaths of red. Much of this is concentrated inland, where agribusiness millionaires share the roads with a multiethnic working population.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/christian-right-evangelicals-midterms.html?

[beachbum bob]

1. Christian Right starting to splinter..thank you trump

No signs of a blue tidal lessening at all, just some Russian bot blathering

[Beartracks]

3. That said... Vote like your life depends on it anyway.

Best to be sure.

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[beachbum bob]

5. its going to take more effort than just voting

each one of us, especially those of us in DU MUST put forth an effort to register new voters, work on local campaigns, contribute what we can and then do the GOTV effort

in 2008, my wife and I registered over 1000 new voters and she went to Florida for 10 days and campaigned door to door for Obama in a red country that hadn't gone for a democratic president in several cycles,. and obama won.


sitting here in DU handwringing, complaining is what the otherside wants all of us to do...instead of getting up off our asses and taking action

[underpants]

2. The red wave in California is big shakes on the right

This is typical of what we saw evidence of today - distraction and pure fiction are all they have right now. The last week has been a solid attack by them about the border thing and it all came crashing down today. Granted it isn't fixed but all the rhetoric was so concentrated and so focused and today HE blew the whole thing out of the water.

[SergeStorms]

4. It's time to tax these christian-right churches.....

into extinction. As far as I'm concerned a "church" loses it's tax exempt status the minute they start telling people who to vote for. It's time to end this idiotic charade that churches don't interfere with the nation's politics. Either that or the government takes control of the church's finances to make sure not one dime is spent convincing people who to vote for.

The church is wrong here. Dead wrong! It's past time to start taxing these fucking hypocrites into oblivion.