Earlier this year, far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters gave white nationalist, Christian fascistDalton Clodfelter a nightly program on his Stew Peters Network called “The Right Dissident.”
Peters is a white nationalist-promoting broadcaster who, despite using his nightly program to spreadwild conspiracy theories and calls for violence, has managed to build close ties to various far-right political candidates and to interview several elected officials, GOP candidates, and former members of the Trump administration. Peters clearly saw something he liked in Clodfelter’s brand of radical right-wing bigotry, Christian nationalism, and antisemitic fascism, all of which Clodfelter has openly promoted five nights a week on Peters’ platform.
Last Thursday, Clodfelter used his show to call for the establishment of a “far-right authoritarian government” in this nation that will imprison its political enemies, establish Christianity as the national religion, and outlaw all secular education.
“Once we take our country back, we will have federal agents kicking down the doors of every treasonous Democrat, every treasonous globalist, every homosexual couple that has molested a child, and they will be arrested, and they will be sentenced to […]
I was not aware that the country was originally founded as a Christian nation.
That is because it wasn’t. The Founders were very clear they wanted a firewall between church, any church, and state.
Thinking back on slavery, the extermination of indigenous tribes, Jim Crow laws, and segregation — not to mention the endless wars we have been involved in, some necessary (WWII, Barbary Pirates) but others a poor excuse for robbing land and sheer stupidity (Mexican-American and Iraq), I wonder when this nation has ever been “Christ-like.” While America has many good people, they are not only Christian citizens, but also Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Pagan, Non-theists, etc. In any case, John Adams and Congress explicitly said that the United States is not a Christian nation.