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That 1/2+ of the House GOP caucus would endorse “Stop the Steal” after the coup attempt shows how hostile the white Christian nationalist wing is to democracy when it threatens their political power, personal wealth, and established social hierarchies. https://medium.com/3streams/where-sedition-is-rewarded-2a50ccc70fd
"A demographic and economic analysis of the constituencies represented by the 139 Republicans who objected to the certification of at least one states’ election results helps to clarify the social and material conditions in which this right wing authoritarianism has taken root."
"The concentration of wealth among older American has allowed the authoritarian right to stoke fears about youth-led political movements challenging their direct and indirect claims on younger Americans’ labor and income as employers, landlords, lenders, and pensioners."
"Latino homeowners in Republican districts are on average more likely to identify as white and to have been born in the US than Latinos in other parts of the country. These facts go some way in explaining President Trump’s modest inroads among Latino voters in 2020."
"White homeowners’ perception of a loss of status relative to upwardly mobile Hispanic and Asian American households is the social context out of which has emerged the nativist politics at the center of Trumpism."
Higher income white homeowners in high-growth exurbs elected the most Pro-Trump GOP members. They fear left-wing political movements are degrading the social status traditionally associated with white Christianity and threatening their livelihoods and political power.
Hope: Democrats’ dual Senate victories in Georgia have vindicated a strategy of organizing and mobilizing the latent majority of voters who will reject white Christian nationalism and its antidemocratic politics, even in a state where voter suppression efforts have been infamous.
