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Rachel Maddow Drives Marjorie into Terrified and Insane Rant: ‘Christian Nationalism Means I Follow a Jew!’

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Yesterday we covered the fact that Marjorie Taylor-Greene had announced over the weekend that she was a proud Christian Nationalist. The ugliness of such a pronouncement is just dripping. There is nothing wrong with being Christian or anything else – one’s faith or secularism is private. But combine “Christian” with “Nationalist,” and now you’re speaking code for Christianist fascism. The old saying has always been that when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and holding a cross.

From our report yesterday on Marjorie declaring herself a Christian nationalist:

“We need to be the party of nationalism. And I’m a Christian. I say it proudly we should be Christian nationalists,” she said. Greene made similar comments while on stage at the conference of young Republican activists. “I actually call myself a Christian nationalist,” she said on stage. “That’s not a bad word. That’s actually a good thing.”

There is much more in our report, and last night, Rachel Maddow took the topic and dug even deeper, as Rachel is want to do.

Gerald L.K. Smith was the leader of the Christian Nationalist movement in the 1950s. He was the leader of that movement in this country in the World War II era around the time that he was running for president. He was also a leader of that movement in the post-World War II era, and I have to tell you what I just played you, that’s kind of a mild stuff from him.

The stuff about the Jews taking over the world and how Americans need to be Christian Nationalists because only that can stop the worldwide Jewish conspiracy, not to mention all the race-mixing, I mean, that sound I just played is the milder version of what Gerald L.K. Smith was famous for. He was a virulent violent racist and anti-semite, and that was the core of his movement.

And with that, Marjorie went NUTS:

BRAIN WASHED LIARS like Rachel Maddow?? Marjorie Taylor-Greene is going to lecture the Rhodes Scholar? Okay, yeah, sure. Someone is very scared.

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