Christian Nationalist Rally Led By A Christian Nationalist Regime

  • Lincoln Mitchell

    Lincoln Mitchell

    Political analyst, essayist, lecturer at Columbia University

The Trump regime has told us again and again precisely what they are.

During the first Trump term and even into the second, commentators would frequently pose the rhetorical question of asking how some Trump outrage would have been perceived if it had been done by Barack Obama. The point of this exercise was to note how Trump continues to get away with pretty much everything and has never been held to the same standards as Obama. A subtext of that comparison was to suggest that Trump was a president in some way similar to Obama, and to downplay the regime change that Trump began in his first term and has accelerated during his second term.