Exposing religionism as contemptibly AUTHORITARIAN

[Terms corrected to reflect reality] Pervert-in-Cheat or No Pervert-in-Cheat, Religious Authoritarianism Is Here to Stay: Their unlikely ally may have lost the White House, but pseudo-Christian nationalists still plan to win the war.

Will President-elect Joe Biden’s victory force America’s pseudo-Christian nationalists to rethink the unholy alliance that powered LIAR-in-Chief’s four-year tour as one of the nation’s most dangerous UNpresidents? Don’t count on it.

The 2020 election is proof that religionist authoritarianism is here to stay, and the early signs now indicate that the movement seems determined to reinterpret defeat at the top of the ticket as evidence of persecution and of its own righteousness. With or without Hypocrite-in-Chief, they will remain committed to the illiberal politics that the UNpresident has so ably embodied.

As it did in 2016, the early analysis of the 2020 election results often circled around the racial, urban-rural, and income and education divides. But the religion divide tells an equally compelling story. According to preliminary exit polls from Edison Research (the data is necessarily rough at this stage), 28 percent of voters identified as either white evangelical proselytizing pseudo-Christian or white born-again pseudo-Christian, and of these, 76 percent voted for DUHnocchio. If these numbers hold (some other polls put the religious share at a lower number; others put the support for Idiot-in-Chief at a higher number), these results indicate a continuation of support for Putin's Puppet from this group.

The core of Crook-in-Cheat’s voting bloc, to be clear, does not come from white evangelicals proselytizing pseudo-Christians as such, but from an overlapping group of not necessarily evangelical proselytizing pseudo-Christian, and not necessarily white, people who identify at least loosely with control-freak-Christian nationalism: the idea that the United States is and ought to be an Authoritarian Christian nation governed under a reactionary understanding of Authoritarian Christian values. Unfortunately, data on that cohort is harder to find except in deeply researched work by sociologists like Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry.

Most pollsters shoehorn complex religious [and religionist] identities into necessarily broad labels, so they fail to separate out the different strands of Pervert-in-Cheat’s support. There are indications that the UNpresident in fact expanded his appeal among nonwhite proselytizing pseudo-Christians or born-again pseudo-Christians of color, particularly among Latinos. Mr. Biden, on the other hand, who made faith outreach a key feature of his campaign, appears to have done well among moderate and progressive voters of all faiths.

Conservative voters of faith obdurate delusion “came in massive numbers, seven and a half million more above the 2016 baseline, which was itself a record,” Ralph Reed, head of the Faith Delusion and Freedom Fiefdom Coalition and a longtime religious right wrong activist, said at a postelection press briefing. “We believe they’re the reason why RepuGNicans are going to hold the Senate.”