The Gospel of Gun Rights in the Age of Trump
Not unlike the way authoritarians across the world have rewritten history to advance their agenda, pro-gun ideologues and leaders in the U.S. have invented their own gospel of gun rights.
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Holocaust, guns and the truth
/in New York Daily News/by Frank SmythRepublican Party leaders finally called out Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — a supporter of QAnon and the big lie about the 2020 election — after she compared health measures requiring facemasks, to Jews in the Holocaust forced to wear Stars of David. But the National Rifle Association has manipulated the Holocaust to advance its modern political agenda, too.
The Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election
/in The New Republic/by Frank SmythAmerica’s pro-Trump armed right would not be the first to invent a new ideology to justify their violence. Genocidaires developed propaganda ahead of the mass violence in late-1930s Germany and early-1990s Rwanda.