Donald Trump has said, aloud and in public, that ‘Christians are the most important people.’ He embraces extremism, spreads disinformation, spews hate, and sows division and distrust. He has surrounded himself with zealots who have overtly and repeatedly proclaimed war against secular Americans and the values and institutions we care about the most.
The incoming president and his allies have told us exactly what they’re planning to do with the power they will soon wield. Those plans are laid out in excruciating detail in Project 2025. And with nearly unchecked power over the White House, Congress, and federal courts, I fear that those plans will have devastating effects on millions of Americans.
Christian nationalist candidates, fueled by culture war propaganda, may have prevailed this election cycle, but their policies did not. In seven of the ten states with abortion-related ballot measures, Americans chose to protect or expand access to reproductive health care. In Kentucky and Nebraska, voters yet again soundly rejected school privatization measures that would use public dollars to fund religious schools.
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