Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist who believes the government should “terrorize evildoers.”

Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist who believes the government should “terrorize evildoers.”

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    21·
    10 months ago

    Heard about this from Hemant Mehta. This guy is filling these wishful bill proposals knowing they are too extreme and that they won’t pass even in Oklahoma. So instead of, I dunno, working on legislation to help literally anyone in his state, he’s doing the congressional equivalent of trying to look busy.

    And make no mistake, he would likely love to see some of these passed into law, he just doesn’t care enough to try to break the system so that they could.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      15·
      10 months ago

      He’s a congressional troll on the state level. No different from Boebert or Greene. Accomplish nothing but make a lot of noise. Basically the opposite of Republican hero Teddy Roosevelt.

  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
    18·
    10 months ago

    “promote what is good in accordance with the will of God.”

    I guarantee this dude wouldn’t know God’s will if it’s big wet mushroom tip smacked him in the face.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    10 months ago

    And I want to jail people for getting in the up elevator when they are really going down and double their sentences if they say, “I’ll just go for a ride” like a blithering idiot.

    I think we are probably on par with achieving our dreams.

    • flipht@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      The beauty of the panopticon and the surveillance state is that everyone breaks some law some time. So you just have to wait until you hate someone enough to notice them, find out what they did, and off they go to become slave labor.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    In Deevers’ view, civil society, apart from the influence of overt Christian doctrine, is not a neutral middle ground, but rather the realm of the devil, or what he calls “a serpentine theocracy.”

    But when Deevers opens his mouth, he invariably presents a jarring, black-and-white view of the role of government — which he believes exists to “protect innocent people and to punish and terrorize evildoers.”

    While campaigning, Deevers told a religious podcast he also favors “public shaming for those who are at fault in divorce.” (In a related essay, he calls this “an important act of justice for both the transgressor and the transgressed.”)

    Deevers embodies a threat that experts believe Christian nationalism poses to democracy — by literally demonizing his opponents, and casting compromise as moral corruption.

    As Brad Onishi, author of an “Extremist History of Christian Nationalism,” recently described in an interview with Rolling Stone: “If you’re a person who is convinced that the United States is under threat by a Luciferian regime, comprised of Marxist globalist secularists, feminists, the LGBTQ community, and so on, democracy is not your sacred value.”

    Pitching himself to voters, Deevers filmed a campaign ad wielding a rifle while wearing a black T-shirt that read: “Obey God: Defy Tyrants.” He railed against “the Godless leftist agenda” that he warned threatens “thriving families and their moral development.” He additionally decried “drag queen story hour” and the “chemical and surgical mutilation of our kids.” A longtime opponent of abortion, Deevers positioned this stance in biblical terms as “loving my pre-born neighbor as myself.”

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