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Here we are now in 2024, and the so-called “Christian” right is ascending.

One would assume after all we supposedly learned about authoritarian regimes historically exploiting religion, we wouldn’t be here.

The key words are “supposedly learned”.

Yet here we are.

Now that there’s a Christian nationalist two heartbeats away from the nation’s highest office, and the nationalist l movement got what it had been fighting half a century for when the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned the Roe vs. Wade decision, right-wing evangelicals are ramping up their destruction of public education, aka “school choice”.

The 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision that desegregated schools began the proliferation of private religious schools and all-white “academies” that morphed into today’s charter schools — private schools funded with taxpayer money supposed to be entirely for funding public education.

The “dark money” the SCOTUS decided constitutes “free speech” has brought us a system of legalized political bribery. It is also behind the school voucher movement.

It is that same movement funded with billionaire cash responsible for the current push to form the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma’s attempt to…