DeSantis seeks to distinguish himself as a more reasonable alternative to Trump. Don’t fall for it, write wphillips49, abbyohlheiser and Mark Brockway.
DeSantis emphasized this brand of Revelation-lite in a 2022 speech when heurging conservatives to “put on the full armor of God” in order to “stand firm against the left’s schemes.” In the original verse, the enemy is the devil; replacing it with “the left” leaves little question as to what kind of enemy he’s saying this is.
The shadow gospel’s cleaving between ultimate good and ultimate evil isn’t a simple left-right split, however. The label “liberal” shifts as needed, and is defined primarily in terms of “not us.” Actual liberals are frequent and obvious targets of the shadow gospel’s demonology, but conservatives and Christians who in any way threaten “us” are just as easily put in league with the devil. Based on shadow gospel logic, even Trump can be a liberal.
The consequence is that any form of criticism ropes that person in with"them," reframing all dissent in partisan terms. You’re either with us or you’re with Satan; you’re either with us or you’re a Democrat, or at least are taking Democrats’ side, a rhetorical move that can take something like fact-checking or even the word “disinformation” and
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