“In Trump, they saw someone who would be brutal to their enemies” — a description of the support given to Donald Trump by the white Christian nationalists, according to Bradley Onishi, author of the book “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — and What Comes Next”. Onishi says that the January 6th assault on the Capitol was the culmination of 60 years of efforts to restore the U. S. as a country built by White Christians, for White Christians.
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