is on BookTV right now talking about his book, American Fascists, which I am reading now.
There are better books I think out there on the "movement," but Hedges' point of view is that of a Christian. He does make the connection between the religious right and the fascists of yore.
After all, their "movement" isn't actually religious but political. Hedges seems to agree with me on that score. He also notes these people are not "evangelicals," nor are they "fundamentalists," the latter because fundamentalists generally are apolitical. These theocrats are actually dominionists, and that "movement," as I have noted, is little different from the fascism of the 20th century.
He did make mention of Blackwater USA, founded by yet another zillionaire bankrolling the radical religious right, Erik Prince, and the stuff they were doing down in New Orleans.
Just because the Democrats have taken hold of Congress doesn't mean the far right is back out in the fringe where it belongs--hardly.
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