Summary
Katherine Stewart’s book, Money, Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, warns of a coordinated right-wing movement aiming to dismantle U.S. democracy.
This movement, comprising Christian nationalists, billionaire oligarchs, and conservative ideologues, aims to dismantle pluralistic democracy and establish a theocratic system.
Stewart highlights its deep organization, financial backing, and strategic voter mobilization, contrasting it with less coordinated pro-democracy efforts.
Theocracy, christian fascism and fascism in general are very very very far away from nihilism.
The hegemonic narrative doesn’t even try to understand opposing ideologies, just misrepresent them.
The term “reactionary nihilism” is an oxymoron.
The popular definition of nihilism is a bad person who rejects my values. Or a bad person who secretly holds values in opposition to their public persona. “Nihilist” in journalistic circles means “double-atheist”, to their readers it just means “wicked”.
its going to be frustrating to people familiar with the philosophy, but it was way too cool of a word to stay esoteric and academic. The solution is to find a new word for the philosophy; accept the loss of the word to popular culture. (which is a good and natural process)