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Wow, great explanation. I've read a lot of explainers on this but this one is one of the absolute best I've ever seen. Thanks.

I live in Georgia, but my experience is not the same. I'm a Yankee living behind the front lines, so to speak. I live in Atlanta. I know nothing, really, about this experience you describe, because I don't live in the kind of place in the South where I'd notice it. All I have to do is move to a smaller town here in Georgia and I, too, could get up close and personal with it. I think I'll skip that part. Although it does make me want to visit a rural church and raise some hell, lol.

Before I lived in Atlanta, I lived in Austin, another blue island in a red sea. And before that, California, where red isn't really a factor, and before that, Chicago, where the Dems have had their own corrupt practices and where a progressive young mayor is running head first into an entrenched corruption machine.

I've been well aware of the Christo-Nationalist influence, of course, but you describe their influence at a more visceral level than I'm used to, with individual churches used as bully pulpits.

The constant refrain of American Taliban really seems apt here. Instead of a heaven filled with virgins, these people seem to think that we're on the verge of the rapture, and in a worse case scenario, maybe some of them even think Agent Orange is the anti-Christ (if they have anything bad to say about him at all), and we should be cheering on the coming apocalypse.

Yikes. The sooner this man is removed from public life, the better.

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