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‘You Ain’t Seen an Insurrection Yet”: MAGA Preachers Call for Holy War to Get Trump Back in the White House

This one hits hard.

Just in time for Saturday’s anniversary of the Capitol insurrection, anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has come out with a new ad, and it may be their most powerful one yet.

The new spot focuses on comparing the fervor with which the rioters stormed Washington DC with the religious fervor that is being shown by right-wing pastors across the country calling for Trump’s reelection.

“This is war,” were the exact words of Pastor Shane Vaughn, from First Harvest Ministries in Mississippi.

“You ain’t seen an insurrection yet,” said Pastor Greg Locke from Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee.

The short video tosses back and forth between clips of these and other preachers promising that “spiritual warfare” is the only thing that will get Trump “his second term of presidency” and clips of the craziness at the Capitol.

The name of the piece is “MAGA Church: Holy War.” It makes it clear as can be that if you want more violence, anti-democracy, and theological warfare, you just vote for Trump.

“MAGA ‘preachers’ are going to war for the least religious President in our lifetime. History and a higher power will judge these lunatics for what they are: delusional, blindly devoted sycophants with a fixation on worshiping a false God.”

Those are the words of Gregory Minchak, a spokesman for The Lincoln Project.

The January 6 attack resulted in nine deaths. More than 700 people have already gone to court for their roles in the insurrection, and nearly 500 have been sentenced to prison.

One of Donald Trump’s four federal indictments is out of Washington and charges him in connection with the insurrection. It cites his promotion of the false narrative of a stolen election in order to rile up his followers. Even now, Trump calls January 6 “a beautiful day” and says that those involved were “great, great patriots.”

Unfortunately, although Democrats and Independents have largely remained the same in their feelings about the attack that day, Republicans have become more hardened in their resolve that the insurrection really wasn’t that big a deal, and that Trump’s involvement wasn’t that great.

They’re wrong, of course; that day changed America.

Watch the video below:

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