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Nick writes a quarterly column in American Atheist Magazine, the member publication of American Atheists and is active on Bluesky. You can read more of his writing by joining American Atheists.
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Our present technological moment feels disorienting. Rather than hope and fascination, I feel a profound sense of anxiety and dread.
The administration’s attempts to delegitimize the “No Kings” protests reveal its conviction that anyone who is not white, native-born, or Christian should have no say or representation in government.
White Christian Nationalists’ decades-long campaign against public education has been persistent, sophisticated, and well-executed. They have targeted the core of its curriculum and the financial lifeblood of the institution itself.
Public protests and demonstrations don’t just show that the administration’s actions are profoundly unpopular; they show the people in tiny Idaho towns or in rural communities in the Bible Belt that they aren’t alone.
We’ve known a second Trump Administration would present new—and profound—threats to our values and to our democracy. They’re proving us right every day.
Whether it was a failure to convince voters that the catastrophically unpopular proposals within Project 2025 were, in fact, the agenda for a second Trump Administration or that voters simply didn’t care, the fact remains that the Christian nationalists’ plans are already being put into action.