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Another "Day That Will Live in Infamy"

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Anyone who has read just some of the blueprint for a Trump win - Project 2025 - should be terrified by its promises. For starters it's based on a platform grounded in Christian Nationalism. A February interview with a former Christian Nationalist, now a professor of religion, on NPR's Fresh Air program, led with a reference to the New Apostolic Reformation, a group that "has become influential in American government and parts of the judicial system." Their flag hangs outside the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's office (and upside down at Justice Alito's homes).

"Christian Nationalism is the idea that Christian people should be privileged in the United States in some way," interviewee Bradley Onishi said. "Many, many members of Congress from the GOP support those principles. " The goal is to institute people at every level of government--

If that doesn't shake you, try this: An organization calling itself "ministers of high representatives of Governments," which claims as regional co-sponsors the governments of Saudi Arabia, Arab Republic of Egypt, Hungary, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Uganda, and Republic of Guatamala, leads the so-called "Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women's Health and Strengthening the Family." Some of the goals of Project 2025 derive from their document which reaffirms stringent anti-abortion rules, and "the family [as] the natural and fundamental group unit of society," as well as many other chilling Victorian ideals.

The Declaration was introduced by Donald Trump's administration in 2020 and signed by 32 countries. Reputed by the Biden administration, it continues to fuel antiabortion strategies. One of its key players is Valerie Huber, who presides over the cleverly named Institute for Women's Health, which sponsored "International Safe Abortion Day" when the Declaration was signed. Huber is a crusader who has made a career out of fighting abortion and sex education. In her speech at the Declaration event, she accused the UN and WHO of "using their soft power to pressure nations into making ideological concessions" and "[advancing] their pro-abortion agenda under the guise of helping women." She is one of the contributors to. Project 2025.

There are 33 others like her who crafted the 900-page blueprint for a Trump dictatorship. It must be defeated.

That's why we all must vote in November, up and down the ballot, as if our lives depend on it. They do.

Our country has done this kind of thing before and been victorious. We can do it again.

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Elayne Clift is a writer,lecturer, workshop leader and activist. She is senior correspondent for Women's Feature Service, columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and Brattleboro (VT) Commons and a contributor to various publications internationally. (more...)
 
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