OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #164, FEBRUARY 14, 2024
NATIONALISM, MILITARISM, WARMAKING, WHITE CHRISTIANITY V. DEMOCRACY, Hitler and Trump v. Democracy In Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next, Bradley Onishi argues that the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was the outcome of years of a subculture’s preparation for war to overthrow the US democracy. The eleven chapters take us from the rise of White Christian nationalism’s reaction to the social rights revolution of the 1960s to the reactionary insurrection of January 6, 2021. At the center of the bifurcation of the nation into pro- and anti-democracy, Onishi sees the expanding myth of the […]