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The Liberal Gospel of White Guilt

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The Unitarian Universalists (“UUs”) exist as the consequence of a heresy — the rejection of the Trinity — that originated in Eastern Europe and eventually found a permanent home in New England, where Henry Ware made it the quasi-official religion at Harvard in the early 1800s. Many years ago, one of my neo-Confederate friends cited the conversion of Harvard to Unitarianism as the actual cause of the Civil War, and I haven’t researched the issue enough to confirm that theory, but the general apostasy of New England is remarkable enough, even without that connection to world-historic events. When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, they were the most militant Christians on the planet, adherents of the teaching of John Calvin, seeking to escape religious corruption and oppression (as they viewed it) in the England of James I.

The Mayflower Compact‘s description of their purpose as “the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith,” and John Winthrop’s subsequent conception of New England as a “city upon a hill,” are sufficient testimony to the profound religious belief that inspired those early settlers. This was not some generic Christianity, but a very specific Calvinist faith, and these settlers were in the vanguard of its most sincere adherents. When, after more than a century in New England, it seemed that the colonial faithful had lapsed from the zeal of their forefathers, Jonathan Edwards inspired a revival with his famous 1741 sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which I would recommend to the reading of anyone who desires a true understanding of the Gospel.

From the faith of the Pilgrims emerged what came to be known as the Congregational denomination. The Second Congregational Meeting House Society of Nantucket dates to 1809 — the “South Church,” to distinguish it from the First Congregational “North Church.” In 1837, the South Church congregation adopted Unitarianism in the form of the Harvard Covenant, and in 1961, the Unitarians merged with the Universalists to form the UUs, who are so far away from the Calvinism of John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards that they’re practically in a separate universe. The South Church has made news:

A liberal church on swanky vacation island Nantucket nixed its Fourth of July readings for the first time in 25 years in “political protest” over the Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling — and its congregants’ “whiteness.”
The Nantucket Unitarian Universalists has read the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights inside its church every Fourth of July for the last 25 years.
This year, the church’s board of trustees and presiding Rev. Erin Splaine published a letter announcing the cancelation of the readings just one month before America’s 250th birthday.
The church blamed the revision on the Supreme Court’s “gutting” of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and “an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness,” according to the letter.
The self-proclaimed “liberal and free faith” leaders claimed that white people know the rights laid out in the America’s foundational texts “have, for centuries, been tragically, often violently, and unequally applied” against non-white citizens.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

The Rev. Splaine and her wife, Michelle

What would Jonathan Edwards have to say to the Rev. Erin Splaine? “Erin, her wife, Michelle and their very cute dog Charlie are thrilled to be part of the Nantucket UU and larger community,” we are informed, and I’m pretty sure the Pilgrims would not approve. The assertion that the Supreme Court’s decision in Callais amounted to “gutting” the Voting Rights Act was repudiated by Justice Clarence Thomas:

This Court should never have interpreted [Section 2] of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to effectively give racial groups “an entitlement to roughly proportional representation.” … By doing so, the Court led legislatures and courts to “systematically divid[e] the country into electoral districts along racial lines.” Holder v. Hall, 512 U. S. 874, 905 (1994) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment). “Blacks [we]re drawn into ‘black districts’ and given ‘black representatives’; Hispanics [were] drawn into Hispanic districts and given ‘Hispanic representatives’; and so on.” Ibid. That interpretation rendered [Section 2] “repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution.” Id., at 905–906. Today’s decision should largely put an end to this “disastrous misadventure” in voting-rights jurisprudence. Id., at 893.
As I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that [Section 2] of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all. See id., at 922–923. The relevant text prohibits States from imposing or applying a “voting qualification,” “prerequisite to voting,” or “standard, practice, or procedure,” in a manner that results in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote based on race. … How States draw district lines does not fall within any of those three categories. Holder, 512 U. S., at 922–923 (opinion of THOMAS, J.); Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1, 46 (2023) (THOMAS, J., dissenting). The words in [Section 2] instead “reach only ‘enactments that regulate citizens’ access to the ballot or the processes for counting a ballot’; they ‘do not include a State’s . . . choice of one districting scheme over another.’” Ibid. (quoting Holder, 512 U. S., at 945 (opinion of THOMAS, J.)). Therefore, no [Section 2] challenge to districting should ever succeed.

Isn’t Justice Thomas more qualified to interpret the law and the Constitution than the Rev. Splaine and her “very cute dog Charlie”?

Justice Thomas has talked about how, after a racial protest in Boston that turned violent in 1970, he went to the chapel at Holy Cross University and prayed: “I just asked God to take hate out of my heart, and I just vowed that if he did I would never hate again.” He has been commendably faithful to his vow, and I wonder what the Rev. Splaine thinks she will accomplish by her political stunt in a Nantucket church that long ago abandoned its claim to Christianity?

Shelby Steele’s 2006 book White Guilt analyzes the pathology expressed by the Rev. Splaine’s self-flagellating call to “better understand our own whiteness.” White guilt has become a religion for liberals, and they don’t understand why the rest of us aren’t heeding the altar call.



 

Democrats Electing Jew-Haters, While Losers Blame … THE JOOZ!

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Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel in October 2023, the left wing of the Democratic Party has made “Palestine” its all-or-nothing issue, more important than anything else soi-disant “progressives” claim to care about. Some of us suspect that money from Qatar, Iran and other Muslim governments has been subsidizing pro-Hamas activism in the United States and other Western countries, especially in terms of podcasts and other online “influencer” propaganda (e.g., Nick Fuentes).

Following up on Monday’s post about Graham Platner, would you care to guess whom Mr. Nazi Tattoo is blaming for his problems?

First of all, as Emily Zanotti and others have pointed out, Platner flunks math — Susan Collins has raised about $10 million in contributions for her reelection campaign, of which some $350,000 are from AIPAC, which is certainly not a “staggering one-third of her money.” But really, when Democrats are backing a candidate with a Totenkopf tattoo, why would anyone blame Jews for supporting his opponent?

Obviously, I’m not someone who spends time listening for “dog whistles” of racism, and I’m perfectly willing to call out Jews whose behavior deserves condemnation (e.g., Jamie Raskin, “the Leading Cause of Antisemitism in America”). But it is obvious to me that Democrats are willing to exploit the Left’s “Palestine” obsession in ways that reek of 1930s Germany. Anytime a Democrat wants to juice up the “progressive” grassroots, scapegoating AIPAC is now the go-to tactic.

You probably never heard of Saikat Chakrabarti, but he’s a Harvard-educated Silicon Valley tech bro who made a fortune after getting in on the ground floor at Stripe. Chakrabarti reportedly spent $10 million of his own money on a congressional campaign in California’s 11th District, for the seat vacated by Nancy Pelosi’s retirement. He finished third in Tuesday night’s primary, and guess who got the blame?

Scott Wiener is a disgusting scumbag who might some day challenge Jamie Raskin for the “Leading Cause of Antisemitism in America” title, but why scapegoat AIPAC? Did those cunning Jews talk Saikat Chakrabarti into wasting $10 million for a third-place finish?

Expect to see more of this kind of rhetoric from Democrats between now and the November midterms, and if somehow Republicans manage to keep control of Congress, Democrats will blame THE JOOZ!



 

‘Independent Journalist,’ My Ass!

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Joe Biden (left) with Democrat activist Christopher Hale (right)

The tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005 by two Democrats, Tom Perriello and Alexia Kelley. CACG “received at least $450,000 in financial support from the massive George Soros philanthropy network from 2006-2010.” A memo that leaked in 2016 credited CACG with shaping President Obama’s 2009 speech at Notre Dame university in which he sought to “reframe” the debate about abortion. Kevin Jones of Catholic News Agency reported in October 2016:

[T]he site Wikileaks has posted alleged 2012 emails involving Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, who appears to state that Catholics in Alliance was founded to aid a “Catholic Spring” political revolution within the Church.
Christopher Hale, who became Catholics in Alliance’s executive director in late 2013, distanced himself from accusations he and his colleagues aimed to split the Church.
“We don’t concern ourselves with the internal politics of the Catholic Church,” Hale told CNA Oct. 17.

Four years later, in 2020, when Christopher Hale ran for Congress in Tennessee, his tenure with CACG became controversial:

The former executive director of a progressive Catholic political advocacy organization, who is now vying for a Congressional seat in Tennessee, has denied a former board member?s allegations that he defrauded the organization and eventually left it bankrupt.
“I’m speaking publicly now, with very little interest in scoring points. I’m simply here to speak on the record, to establish a fact pattern, to help explain to the public the disappointing experience I have had with Chris Hale,” said James Salt, a former board member of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, in a livestream announcement Aug. 3. . . .
Hale is running in the Democratic primary in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District. His opponent in that race, Noelle Bivens, hosted a livestreamed event with Salt on Monday evening, after local media reported that Hale is accused of misusing email lists from his former employer to fundraise for his own benefit.
Salt said the political advocacy group, which aimed to advance Democratic candidates and policy initiatives by appealing to Catholics, was financially and legally harmed by Hale’s leadership of the organization.
“My job is simply to be on the record saying he did a great disservice to everyone who has worked with him.”
After Hale was hired as executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good in 2013, Salt said, “we began to see a pattern of Chris obfuscating and avoiding any kind of accountability.”
Eventually, Salt said, Hale lied about filing financial records, and once told colleagues he was having surgery, which was apparently not true, in order to excuse missed work.
Hale was fired from the group in 2017, Salt said, and the group was dissolved. Hale disputed that he was fired, saying he left on good terms with the board, because he was ready to “move on and have different adventures in life.”
He is accused of leaving with the organization’s mailing and email donor lists, and using them after he was fired to fundraise for an initiative he started later that year, called The Francis Project.
According to documents obtained by the Murfreesboro Voice, Hale was asked repeatedly to stop using those lists for fundraising, but continued to do so as late as December 2019.
In a Jan. 24 letter to Washington, D.C’s attorney general, Lawyers for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and the related Catholics United organization, said that The Francis Project was not actually a non-profit, but was instead a trade name connected to a Washington, DC for-profit corporation incorporated by Hale, and registered as “Christopher Hale.”

Are you with me so far? There can be no doubt that (a) Christopher Hale is a member of the Democratic Party who was (b) associated with a left-wing group that got hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Soros network, but (c) was accused of unscrupulous dealings after he left that organization and ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2020. Hale won the Democratic primary that year, but lost the general election by a 33-point margin to incumbent Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais.

All of this is preamble to a weird story this week:

The Pentagon and White House are refuting reports that high-level U.S. defense officials told Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican to take the United States’ “side” when it comes to matters of military influence and Western Hemisphere oversight.
Allegations stem from interactions that originated in January, according to the Free Press, which reported that Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby allegedly summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s ambassador to Washington, D.C., to deliver a “bitter lecture” during a closed?door meeting characterized as tense.
Colby purportedly told Pierre that “the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” adding: “The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
On Wednesday, independent journalist Christopher Hale on his Letters From Leo webpage confirmed that the meeting took place, adding “that some Vatican officials were so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that they shelved plans for Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States later this year.” The pope, 70, who hails from Chicago, was expected to come to the U.S. this July as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.
“The Free Press’ characterization of the meeting is highly exaggerated and distorted,” a U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson told Military.com on Thursday. “The meeting between Pentagon and Vatican officials was a respectful and reasonable discussion. We have nothing but the highest regard and welcome continued dialogue with the Holy See.” . . .
Officials in the Vatican saw the official’s purported remarks as referencing an Avignon papacy, viewed as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

This story is just wild beyond words, but what infuriated me was the reference to “independent journalist Christopher Hale,” when anyone could have done a Google search and learned what I have told you about Hale, that he is a Democratic Party operative, with a shady reputation and no credentials whatsoever as a “journalist.” Furthermore — and I should hope my Catholic friends see this as I do — what are we to make of the fact that George Soros has expended vast amounts of money to influence (or perhaps a better verb is subvert) the Catholic Church?

Being a Protestant myself, I don’t take orders from the Vatican, but we live in a world where everything has become political, and this story (which the Pentagon has basically called a pile of bovine excrement) is just another example of how the left-wing billionaire Soros poisons everything he touches. Everyone needs to wake up and pay attention.



 

‘Retribution for Their Sacred Blood’: Hezbollah Inspired Synagogue Attack

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Thought of headlining this post “Dearbornistan Update”:

Federal investigators said Monday that the man who crashed his pickup into a Michigan synagogue earlier this month was inspired and radicalized by Iran?backed terrorist group Hezbollah and reportedly sought to kill as many Jewish people as he could.
Officials noted that Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who attempted to launch a full-scale, mass-casualty assault on March 12, deliberately targeted a location filled with more than 100 children in West Bloomfield before he was fatally shot by officers. Local officials previously reported that the assault came after several of his family members were killed in Lebanon during the country’s war with Israel.
In the days leading up to the attack, Ghazali allegedly rigged his truck with booby traps, fireworks, explosives, and large amounts of gasoline. Just before ramming the building, he reportedly sat in the Temple Israel parking lot and sent videos to his sister in Lebanon — some showing him holding a weapon while listening to upbeat militant battle anthems.
“This is the largest gathering of Israelis in the state of Michigan in the United States. I have booby trapped the car. I will forcibly enter and start shooting them. God willing, I will kill as many of them as I possibly can,” he said in one of the videos, according to the FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyon.
James Gorgon, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, added that had the attacker survived, he would have been charged with providing “material support” to Hezbollah for effectively providing himself as the weapon aimed at Michigan’s largest Jewish temple.
According to investigators, Ghazali reportedly consumed pro-Hezbollah and Iranian militant propaganda for months leading up to the attack, ultimately planning what he called a “special operation” aimed at causing mass casualties.
He allegedly created a Facebook album titled “Vengeance,” filled with images of Hezbollah leaders and militant quotes, and also sent his sister a photo of an Israeli flag covered up with yellow paint, a color often used to represent loyalty and sacrifice to Hezbollah.
“You killed the Ali and Hussein of our time. We will avenge their blood,” one of his Facebook status posts said hours before the attack, referencing the overseas deaths of his family members.
“We will seek retribution for their sacred blood,” another post said. “Israel is a cancerous, malignant growth. Israel is pure evil and the oppressors will soon know what kind of end they will meet.”
Within three days prior to the attack, Ghazali researched local synagogues . . . He reportedly purchased an AR-style rifle, 300 rounds of ammunition, and more than $2,200 worth of fireworks.
He filled collapsible containers with roughly 35 gallons of gasoline across multiple trips to use as an explosive accelerant in his truck, adding fireworks to booby-trap the vehicle before ramming it into the synagogue. . . .
During the attack, the suspect ultimately exchanged gunfire with synagogue security and ignited the explosives inside his vehicle after ramming into the temple doors at a high speed. . . .
“I’ve seen some odd attempts to explain away or even lessen this terrorist attack by claiming that he was an isolated lone wolf, but that is misleading,” Gorgon said. “Terrorist propaganda is designed to activate the so-called lone wolf to act on behalf of the terrorist organization.”
“I am convinced that my office would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed the federal crime of providing material support to Hezbollah,” he added.
Officials noted that the attacker was not on any terrorist watch list and had never been the subject of an FBI investigation before the attack.

How is the Hezbollah propaganda that radicalized this guy any different from the rhetoric of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Democrat who represents Dearborn in Congress? (See “The Terrorist and the 12th District.”) Some have taken notice of the fact that Ghazali “was not on any terrorist watch list” to suggest that the FBI wasn’t doing its job, but you must realize that if you’re targeting Jew-hating radicals Muslims, basically the entire population of Dearborn would be on a terrorist watch list.



 

The Terrorist and the 12th District

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Two decades ago, the phrase “Dearbornistan” became common among conservative bloggers during the Global War on Terror, because of the notorious cluster of Islamic radicals in the Detroit surburb of Dearborn.

As soon as I heard about Thursday’s attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield — before anything had been reported about the suspect’s identity — I checked to see how far the synagogue was from Dearborn. It’s about 20 miles, but the distance is a bit shorter to Dearborn Heights, which is six miles west of Dearborn itself. Both communities are part of Michigan’s 12th Congressional District, which sends Democratic “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib to Congress. She is despicable:

Rashida Tlaib is the least mediagenic of the three founding members of the Squad who entered Congress in 2019 (the others are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar), but she is arguably the most venomous, and indeed, the most dangerous. On August 29 [2025], she spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, and significantly enhanced the reputation she had already amassed for harsh, ugly rhetoric, strident hatred of Israel, and unashamed anti-Americanism. And so the inevitable question arises: what has happened to us as a nation that there are people of this perspective in Congress, and what kind of long-term damage might they do to the strength and unity of our nation?

The idea that this rabid fanatic was “praying” for members of the West Bloomfield synagogue is rather ludicrous, considering that it was one of her pro-Hezbollah constituents who committed the attack:

Armed FBI agents executed a search warrant at a home in Michigan overnight Thursday, believed to be in connection with the synagogue attacker who rammed a vehicle into a Jewish house of worship earlier in the day.
Video shows agents outside a brick home in Dearborn Heights, a city in Wayne County, using a long battering tool to break a front window before making entry. Law enforcement told WJBK/FOX 2 Detroit they were conducting a search warrant.
The raid came hours after a suspect rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel, a large Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield, around 12:20 p.m. local time.
The suspect, identified as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, allegedly rammed the synagogue and opened fire at security guards with a rifle, authorities said. Armed security returned fire and shot him dead.
During the incident, the vehicle caught fire, filling the building with smoke. All staff and 140 students were evacuated, FOX 2 Detroit reported. . . .
Multiple law enforcement sources and federal authorities said the suspect entered the United States as the spouse of a U.S. citizen roughly 15 years ago during the Obama administration and was granted citizenship in 2016.
Ghazali, born in Lebanon on Jan. 4, 1985, entered the U.S. through Detroit Metropolitan International Airport on May 10, 2011, on an IR1 immigrant visa, according to DHS.
He later applied for naturalization in October 2015 and was granted U.S. citizenship on Feb. 5, 2016.

Dead men tell no tales, but the motive is obvious:

A Lebanese official told The Associated Press that Ghazali recently lost four family members, his two brothers, a niece and a nephew, in an Israeli airstrike in Mashgharah, Lebanon, during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. . . .
Sky News and NBC reported that Ghazali’s two brothers were members of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group.

Mashgharah is known as a Hezbollah stronghold in the Bekaa Valley region, and the question that must be asked is, why are we importing people from Lebanese terrorist strongholds? My guess: Democrats need foreign voters to elect scum like Rashida Tlaib to Congress.



 

ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN TEXAS? UPDATE: ‘Property of Allah’ Shirt

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Please note the question mark in the headline, because officials are not saying that it definitely is terrorism, but it kind of looks like it:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has discovered evidence at the scene of the mass shooting at a popular Austin nightclub that indicates a potential nexus to terrorism. During a press conference held in Austin early Saturday morning, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Alex Doran of the San Antonio FBI office said the evidence was discovered on the shooter and in his vehicle.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, at least three people have been killed and 14 injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who responded to the location of the shooting within a minute of the first emergency call.
Speaking at the latest press conference, Doran told reporters that the FBI is working with the Austin Police Department to collect and process evidence at the scene, including the agency’s evidence response team and digital forensics specialists. Commenting on the nexus to terrorism, Doran said, “It’s still way too early in the process to determine an exact motivation, but there were indicators that, on the subject and in his vehicle, indicate potential nexus to terrorism.” . . .
The suspect . . . left the scene and travelled farther down Sixth Street, where he was encountered by Austin police officers who engaged the suspect and killed him less than one minute later.

Austin shooting suspect Ndiaga Diagne

Suspect is an African immigrant:

The shooter, who is reportedly a Senegalese male with American citizenship, opened fire on a crowd of patrons with a handgun and an “assault rifle.” He has been identified as Ndiaga Diagne. He was described to be wearing “Islamic garb,” according to the New York Post. It was also suggested that his undershirt may have had an Iranian flag printed on it.

Maybe the guy was just crazy — crazy people are dangerous — but on the other hand, the timing seems perhaps not coincidental.

UPDATE 2:10 p.m. ET: Kind of a large hint about the motive:

UPDATE 3:15 p.m. ET: The motive is so mysterious:



 

Why Do Democrats Hate Christians?

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Jennifer Welch (left) and her co-host Angie Sullivan

This post is not going to be one of those “look-what-the-crazy-liberal-said” exercises, as enough such work has already been done on podcaster Jennifer Welch’s most recent outburst. Sure, I’ll quote what Welch said, but my point here is to explain why she said it. First, however, the quote supplied by The Post Millennial:

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has said that “white Evangelical Christianity” is a cancer. While making the comments, she named people such as Erika Kirk and cited the Christian’s tendency to vote for Trump as a reason to oppose them and claimed Christians are not getting persecuted.
“So when you think about the Erika Kirk, the Life Church, the Joel Olsteen of it all, and their desire to accumulate wealth while hood-winking their flock into thinking they’re super moral, this is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country,” Welch said.
“These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways, as a weapon and as a shield. They weaponize it whenever they want to, and say, ‘We’re on the moral high ground. You’re a lesbian. You deserve to die. You’re a lesbian. The cops shouldn’t have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans, and they brought you over here. Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food.’ And then when you call them out on it, ‘Oh, my God, they’re after the Christians. How dare they, how dare they. We’re so oppressed,'” Welch added, mocking those who are Christian.
“White Christians are so oppressed in this country, and they want it both ways, because in the religion that duplicity is taught, you can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem. And it should come as no surprise to anyone that of this cult that I’m talking about, white evangelicals over 80 percent went and voted triple Trumped.”

It is not enough to say that this is false and insulting, but I’m not here to document the elements of slander or to stoke outrage. No, as I said, my point is to explain why Welch said this — or, more generally, why Democrats view white evangelical Christians as an enemy who deserved to be smeared this way. Notice that at the end of the quoted excerpt, Welch claims that “over 80 percent” of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump three times — 2016, 2020 and 2024. Is this true? Or to proceed directly to my conclusion: How does Jennifer Welch know this?

IT’S THE EXIT POLLS, STUPID!

An important development of the past 30 or 40 years is exit polling, which allows political strategists and others to speak with some degree of certainty about which demographic segment voted for which candidate.

Prior to exit polling — which didn’t become a ubiquitous phenomenon until the 1990s — political candidates and parties lacked specific information about the nature of their own support or that of their opponents. For example, the term “gender gap” arose after the 1980 election from the discovery that, by a net margin of eight points, more men than women had voted for Ronald Reagan. In the years afterwards, as more questions were added to exit-poll surveys, more detailed information about patterns of voter preferences became available, and it was from this that Democratic Party strategists learned that the most committed Republican voters were white evangelical Christians.

After asking the basic religion question — Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, etc. — the question was added: Do you consider yourself a born-again Christian or evangelical Christian? This result then gets cross-tabbed with the race question, to identify the “white evangelical Christian” voters as a distinct category. It is because of this that we know such voters went for Trump by 80% in 2016, 76% in 2020, and 82% in 2024. How important are white evangelicals Christians as a voting bloc? They were 23% of the electorate, according to the 2024 exit polls.

Permit me, as someone born and raised a Southern Baptist, to explain the theological basis of “born again” and “evangelical.” The phrase “born again” is taken directly from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, with Jesus answering the Pharisee leader Nicodemus. The phrase also appears in I Peter 1:23, and the concept is also referenced in the sixth chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Repentance, baptism — death to the old sinful man, “born again” to a new and eternal life. This is just basic belief in every church I’ve ever attended, including the so-called “charismatic” services I visited with my childhood friend Phil Underwood, who is, like his father before him, a Church of God preacher. As for the phrase “evangelical,” this refers to preaching the Gospel to the uncoverted, in accordance with “the Great Commission” (Matthew 28:18-20): “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” And it is this zeal to make converts, by preaching the need for repentance, which makes the members of certain denominations and congregations identifiable as “evangelical” or “born-again” Christians, in distinction from those who for whatever reason think the Great Commission has expired.

There is a deep irony in the Democratic Party’s demonization of “white evangelical Christians” because, of course, the whole reason this phenomenon gained national attention in the first place was that, in 1976, a Georgia Baptist named Jimmy Carter ran for president and made his “born again” faith front-and-center in his campaign.

When it helped Democrats win an election — and Carter just barely beat Gerald Ford in 1976 — being “born again” was good. But when they identified it as a cause of Republicans winning elections, Democrats decided that, in the words of Jennifer Welch, “White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. . . . These are the worst people in our country.”

Every Democrat nodded in agreement with that remarkable denunciation, because they’ve all seen the same exit-poll data. And I am not here to preach, dear brothers and sisters, but I feel the need to point out that it doesn’t matter whether you’re white, or whether you’re a Christian, or whether you consider yourself “born again.” You could be an atheist or a Muslim, black or Asian, gay or straight — it doesn’t matter who you are, if you vote Republican, you’re a “cancer,” according to Democrats. The only category of sin they recognize is voting Republican.

Liberalism is the only faith they have, and they will cling to it all the way to the grave and beyond. God will judge them, as He will judge us all.



 

Andrew Torba’s Plan To Reenact The Fall of Singapore

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— by Wombat-socho

Lt. Gen. Percival surrenders Singapore to the Japanese, 1942

Last week I linked to an editorial post by Andrew Torba at Gab, “Us or Them”, which I gave serious thought to tagging with the reminder that linking doesn’t signify approval. Instead I decided to lay out my problems with that post here, in the hope of stimulating further discussion and doing my part to stem the tide of antisemitic drivel that bedevils the Grand Old Party. 

I know we have problems
We got problems right here in Central City
We have problems on the North, South, East and West
New York City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago…
-Alice Cooper, “Elected”

Torba seems to have a major problem with the priorities of President Trump and the Republican Congress (which as any intelligent person knows, aren’t necessarily the same)  and certainly, I agree that the Administration seems to be repeating Bush the Younger’s mistake of putting foreign affairs before domestic issues. On the other hand, straightening out the mess created by Joe Biden’s handlers while contending with assholes in the judiciary and neo-nullificationist ponces like Newsom, Priztker, Kotek, Healey et al -to say nothing of obstructionist scum in the Federal bureaucracy- is a full-time job by itself, and in the meantime things keep happening beyond our borders that we have to pay attention to.

Where I part company with Torba is that like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, he’s convinced that our problem is DA JOOOOS. Never mind the billions being poured into our universities and erstwhile “conservative” influencers by Qatar. Never mind the ongoing purchases of farmland, biowarfare against our farmers, and infiltration of the universities by the Red Chinese. Pay no mind to the rising problem of Muslim penetration of American politics and jihadi attacks in our major cities. No, the REAL problem facing America is leftist donors to Democrat/radical causes who have Jewish genes. Never mind that most of these putzes haven’t darkened the door of a synagogue since they were teenagers, and if they have it’s the worldly heretical temples of the Reform/Reconstructionist deviates, it’s the evil JOOOOS that we must fight!

Bunkum, I say.  Balderdash. I respect Torba’s accomplishments in building and growing Gab when seemingly every man’s hand was against him. He got debanked. The Gab app was kicked off the Apple and Google app stores. He never gave up, and for that I salute him. But in this case he’s dreadfully wrong. Like General Percival, he has all his guns pointed in the wrong direction. He has fallen prey to the faulty logic of Father Coughlin, inveighing against an imaginary threat while the real threats sneak through the jungles and prepare to slit his throat.  I will pray for Andrew Torba and his followers, that their eyes are opened and they see the truth. We have a lot more to fear from the Communist/Islamic bloc than from Israel and its supporters, and following the sirens of Tucker Qatarlson & that gay Mexican dork is absolutely the wrong plan to follow. 

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