"What are we to make of the fact that Trump can be re-elected, that the Supreme Court is full of reactionary fanatics, and Congress isn't acting on the will of the American people? For starters, we have a political system that acts like a dam, blocking the 'main stream' of where this country is today. …
"It serves people who want to keep living in what used to be the American mainstream. Our demographics are changing rapidly, but there was a time not that long ago when the vast majority of American society was white and Christian. There was a time when being LGBTQ+ was considered by a majority to be morally reprehensible. When it was okay to deny Black people the right to vote, or even freedom."
Our political system has been rigged by corporate lobbyists, lawmakers, and judges to hold public office hostage to big money—intentionally excluding the working-class majority from its rightful place at America’s policy table."
"If Kevin Roberts and the Project 2025 people have their way … a second Trump government will lurch the country into a fascist model of the kind imposed by Viktor Orbán in Hungary. Brynn Tannehill calls it 'minoritarian rule.' The extremist religious beliefs of one subset of Americans will be foisted on the rest of us."
"The defining impulse on the Right … is not to pull back, but to dominate and subjugate. Their project stands in a long tradition historian Jefferson Cowie has dissected in his latest book, Freedom’s Dominion: 'white freedom,' defined as the ability to curtail the freedom of others."
The most aggressive proponents of white Christian domination have almost always claimed to be defending 'freedom' – against government tyranny or, more recently, 'woke' illiberalism – and to be acting in self-defense: against federal overreach or radically 'Un-American' forces of leftism."