Donald Trump is thrown off Twitter. Josh Hawley loses a book deal. Bakers are required to provide services for gay couples. Celebrities are attacked for statements that are not politically correct on social media. Confederate statues are toppled. The 1619 Project says America is an evil empire. Lincoln’s name is removed from a school in San Francisco.
What do all of these events have in common? To the GOP, they are manifestations of “cancel culture,” of course. A large portion of the right sees them as the beginning of the end of America as they know it. What starts with a city removing Lincoln’s name from a school ends in concentration camps for Christians. That’s the reason, other than their glorious legacy, that Christian nationalists are entitled to bend or even shatter the rules of our political system in order to maintain a monopoly of power. If you were facing extermination, wouldn’t you put on a fur robe and a Viking hat and go storm the Capitol, too?
Of course, you have probably noted that the actions described in the first paragraph of this post are not attributable to the federal government, and that neither Joe Biden nor anyone in the Democratic Party has ever supported concentration camps for Christians. Biden, unlike Trump, is actually a practicing Christian himself. What people like Tucker Carlson are suggesting is way, way beyond anything proposed by anyone on the left–even the Twitter activists, who matter far less than they think.
So how does America’s end actually happen, in the eyes of furry Vikings? More on that in my next post.