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Opus Dei and American Fascism Strike It Rich |
A nonprofit known as Marble Freedom Trust, headed by Leonard Leo, an Opus Dei kingpin, received last year a grant of $1.6 billion to fuel far right wing
agendas. |
Leo, readers of Daily Meditations may recall, was responsible for all six conservative judges on the Supreme Court from his position in the Federalist Society (of which he is currently co-chair). This includes, of
course, Chief Justice John Roberts whose disastrous | "Right-Wing Dark Money Gets $1.6 Billion Donation From One Donor." MSN |
pushing of the Citizens United decision has made all this dark money possible in American politics.
(To read previous DMs about Leo, please click
HERE and HERE.) Leo also brought us the three most recent judges, all appointed by Mr. Trump and all very much on board with creating the chaos that women facing miscarriages and girls and women being forced to bear children of rapists and incest are
undergoing. |
How much is 1.6 billion dollars? If you saved $10,000 every single day, it would take you 438 years to save 1.6 billion. Money by Pixabay at
Pexels. | How much is 1.6 billion dollars? Robert Maguire, research director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, called the donation “stupefying” and “by far” the largest known contribution to a dark money political group. That amount of money is double the total amount raised by Trump’s entire 2020 presidential committee. |
It is especially telling that this news comes out the same week that President Biden dared to speak the “F” word in a public discourse, that word being, of course, “Fascism.” (His exact terminology being “semi-fascism” of the MAGA crowd.) Maybe we should just call it “American Fascism,” which as Sinclair Lewis warned us 100 years ago would “come to
America wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” |
American fascism is all of that, for sure. The “carrying the cross” part includes the extreme evangelicals such as Rev. Franklin Graham and the Opus Dei wing of the Roman Catholic Church so
thoroughly represented by Mr. Leo, Steve Bannon, Cardinal Burke, Archbishop Gomez (head of the American Bishops Conference), Salvatore Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, and many others who elected Gomez, and surely includes those who pushed for the canonization of Junipero Serra, the founder of the death camps known as the missions of California. | |
Maguire observed that he had “never seen a group of this magnitude before” and that that amount of money can seriously influence the “federal judiciary and make it more difficult to vote, a state-by-state campaign to remake elections laws” that undermine future elections. To be continued |
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