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This is Trump’s Republican Party. It is also the party for and of evangelical Christians, whose worldview, Jones writes, is intertwined with racism. “This seditious mob was motivated not just by loyalty to Trump, but by an unholy amalgamation of white supremacy and Christianity that has plagued our nation since its inception and is still with us today. As I show in my book ‘White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity,’ there remains a disturbingly strong link between holding racist attitudes and identifying as a white Christian.”


Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) raised his fist in solidarity with this crowd. Fox News and right-wing radio catered to this crowd, filling its participants with conspiracies and outright lies. Republican House and Senate members similarly peddled the lie that the election was marred by fraud. The notion that the Republican Party can be separated from the mob is nonsensical. The mob is the party’s base.