QOTD -- Death Rattle

 

"...The right is surely growing more focused on creating a kind of Christian cultural hegemony in public institutions in part because Christianity is in a steep decline. Three decades ago, about 90 percent of Americans identified as Christian. Today, the number has fallen to the low 60s and the decline is likely to continue.

"Something similar is happening politically in Texas. Republicans have a lock on power, yet the state continues inexorably moving away from them, culturally and demographically.

“'I think this is the death rattle of a dying worldview,' [Democratic State Rep. James] Talarico told me. 'In some ways, the far right is like a wounded animal here in Texas. They know that Texas is becoming increasingly diverse, Texas is becoming younger, and that new Texas is not going to stand for these extreme policies.'” -- Paul Waldman, in the Washington Post, on how "The Texas legislature explores new frontiers of Christian Nationalism."  Whether Rep.Talarico's faith in demographic change coming to Texas is borne out remains to be seen.  What is clear, though, is that in Texas and in every state where the Republican/ Christofascist/ Shooters Party holds power, they will use every means available to hold on to that power, whether it's constitutional or not, legitimate or not.