Donald Trump and Neil Gorsuch have the right wing thinking big -- really big

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, JUL 3, 2017 08:00 AM EDT

Donald Trump and Neil Gorsuch have the right wing thinking big — really big

Under Trump, religious right leaders plan a big comeback: "We are in a war for the future of this republic"

PETER MONTGOMERY AND RIGHT WING WATCH

The entire Trump presidency has been pretty much a nonstop horror show for progressive Americans, but the month of June made it clear that if you are worried about President Trump and the Republican Congress rolling back advances made during the Obama administration, you aren’t worried nearly enough. Right-wing strategists seeking to undo what they see as federal overreach are looking back as far as the New Deal, and some even further, to the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th Century. With Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and hundreds of Gorsuch-like judicial nominations in the pipeline, they’re making big plans.

Earlier in the month, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference brought Religious Right activists to Washington, D.C. The atmosphere was triumphalist, almost giddy, in sharp contrast to previous years’ complaints about Barack Obama and dire warnings about a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. Religious Right leaders had hitched the movement’s wagon to the Trump train, and they had already begun reaping the rewards.

Candidate Trump had overcome conservative Christians’ qualms about his character with a set of too-good-to-resist promises. He said he’d give them the Supreme Court of their dreams and he pledged to make them more politically powerful by doing away with restrictions on churches’ political activities. He won their trust by making one of their own, Mike Pence, his running mate. Religious Right leaders pulled out all the stops to help Trump rack up a massive margin of victory among white evangelicals.

Faith and Freedom’s founder, political operative Ralph Reed, was happy to reel off numbers that he said represented the group’s outreach: 1.2 million doors knocked, 10 million phone calls, 22 million pieces of mail, 30 million voter guides.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/07/03/donald-trump-and-neil-gorsuch-have-the-right-wing-thinking-big-really-big/

[SHRED]

1. We're in deep doo doo

A RW SCOTUS as far into the future as the eye can see.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. Correct

States will again be allowed to discriminate against transgender Americans, gay Americans, women, and religious minorities, as well as conjoining church and state.

It could be generations before rightwing racism and bigotry are eliminated by the political process.