Meet Mike Flynn. You know he's bad, but you probably don't know just how bad.
Trump’s loyal general, Michael Flynn, ‘at the center’ of the insurrectionist war on democracy
A little snippet FTA: His brand of Christian nationalism is moreover decidedly authoritarian. Speaking to a Texas audience on the ReAwaken America tour last November, he explained that his idea of national unity involved everyone thinking and worshiping in exactly the same way.
The guy is seriously dangerous. To wit:
Flynn’s detachment from reality would, in a normal political environment, relegate him to the fringes of American politics. The problem is that so many other people are similarly detached. Polls and surveys regularly demonstrate that millions of Americans, nearly all of them Republicans, believe what Flynn says.
“Any of these factors alone could be considered dangerous. But all of them together and the distrust it is sowing in our democracy,” Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, told the Associated Press. “I think it’s extremely dangerous in this moment.”
Du Mez says that Flynn’s dualistic rhetoric positing a war between good and evil has long been a staple among conservative Christians. It also can foment violence.
“They’re out to get us. Therefore, we need to strike first. And the threat is always dire,” Du Mez says in describing their logic. “And if the threat is dire, then the ends justify the means. These values are not unconnected from the violence that we saw on Jan. 6,” she added.
