Former Trump Official Alyssa Farah Griffin tells CNN’s John Avlon how a personal heartbreak motivated her to tackle the partisan divide

Former Trump Official Alyssa Farah Griffin tells CNN’s John Avlon how Republican voters cannot support America while still supporting Trump and how a personal heartbreak motivated her to tackle America’s polarized politics on this week’s Reality Check.

           

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Brad Ottoson He told them to march down to the Capitol and fight like hell. He also said that he would join them. He said you won't take back the country with weakness. His speech was before the insurrection. Also he waited for over three hours before he publicly told the rioters to stop and only after his handlers pleaded with him to make an announcement. The people that were charged with crimes on Jan 6 said that they stormed the Capitol because Trump "told them to". I guess you live under a rock, not knowing all of this common knowledge?


Janette Neal Which part of his genius, earthshaking plans was it that you liked the best? His infrastructure plan? His healthcare plan? Or his immigration plan? Or maybe was it when he made Mexico pay for the wall? Or how his groundbreaking takes on combatting a pandemic with a COVID panel consisting of the likes of a coke-sniffing pillow hugger made that virus "...disappear, like a miracle?" I know, it must've been his fabulous speeches where he stirred up so many deeply patriotic memories of when the Continental Army took over the airports in the Revolutionary War?
Sorry, toots. But a bean bag chair not only has a higher I.Q. than Trump does, it gets more done.


Mary Levernier, Biden has broken everything he’s touched. His weakness even gave Putin the incentive he needed to invade Ukraine and kill thousands of Ukrainians and displace millions more. Biden has even received a stern warning from China not to interfere if they choose to invade Taiwan. They have warned him if Biden gets involved in any way with Taiwan China indicated they will respond militarily and they are not above using nuclear weapons

In addition more locally, Biden has nearly put America into a recession. Under his direction, Americans are struggling to pay the highest gas prices in America by far. He has allowed inflation to increase to dangerous levels when if he would’ve addressed the problem when it began happening in March 2021, he might have been able to mitigate some of the inflation which Americans are struggling with now. The Biden administration wide to Americans when they said inflation was transitory and then they lied a second time which said inflation had peaked

That’s 100% on Biden


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Knowledge shared and applied can make a great difference in understanding what dire state this nation is in and how important November 2022 elections are to our nation's well-being.
Somber warning from a Pastor about the intentions of Evangelical "conservative" christians in American politics.

Pastor John Pavlovitz: “I’ve been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in predominantly white churches in the American South.
I’ve spent countless hours in church staff meetings and men’s Bible studies and youth pastor conferences.
I’ve stayed connected on social media with thousands of people still there in those churches. I read what they share and post and amplify and I know how they think and what they believe.
I need you to understand something and I say it without any hyperbole: white Evangelicals need to be stopped, now.
If the 2022 midterms elections allow Republicans to gain control of Congress, Conservative Christians will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again. We will all be at their mercy—and they will no longer have use for mercy.
This is not alarmist, sky-is-falling histrionics, it is the clear and sober forecast from someone who knows these people better than anyone. Over the last decade and a half, as my theology shifted and my beliefs grew more and more progressive, I’ve been a kind of undercover Liberal in an increasingly extremist movement, that while once relegated to minor fringe noisemakers is now at the precipice of Roman Empire-level power. They are less than two years away from having a dominance that they will wield violently and not relinquish.
I watched it all unfold from the inside:
I was at a North Carolina megachurch when Obama was elected and I saw the shift take place firsthand. I saw the fear slowly being ratcheted up and the agenda become solidified and the prejudices leveraged.
I was speaking regularly at the Billy Graham headquarters when Fox News reporters and Republicans like Sarah Palin started walking the halls with frequency.
I saw the messages at pastor’s conferences grow more incendiary and urgent, and heard the supremacist dog whistles become louder and more frequent.
While many decent people around this nation celebrated the progress of a black president and the many civil and human rights victories and gradually let down their guard—the white Conservative church set off the alarms and prepared for a holy war.
Yet, they were still a largely powerless, dying dinosaur until 2016, when Donald Trump acquired the presidency and gave the Evangelicals the perfect amoral partner to serve as the biggest bully pulpit they’ve ever had. Combine that with a fragmented Left, a general fatigue by the larger population, a ceremonial victory in Congress (thanks to Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema), and Republican attacks on voters’ rights— and we are now a hair’s breadth from the subjugation of diverse humanity here.
These are not followers of Jesus despite the trappings and window dressing. They are Jesus-less extremists: blind zealots for nothing but power. They have been conditioned by decades of polluted theology and FoxNews alternative facts to see diversity as a threat, to see progress as attacks on America, and to interpret more people being treated with dignity as oppression of white people.
Trust me when I tell you that we won’t recover from the theocracy Evangelicals are constructing once it is established. If we fail in 2022, they will have a political power that will render every election null and void, and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.
Women will lose autonomy over their own bodies.
LGBTQ people will have the rights to marry and adopt taken away.
People of color will be fully squeezed out of the electoral process.
Immigrants will be denied access to opportunity and refuge here.
These are not creative projections. They are precisely what Evangelicals have repeatedly stated as their intentions, and they’re closer than they’ve ever been to having a rubber stamp.
We can still stop it, though.
We just need a unity and coordination that transcends theirs.
We need a sustained, passionate, dedicated defense of humanity that rivals their relentless assaults on it.
I hear many people say they’re terrified, but being terrified alone doesn’t do anything but help these people.
Be terrified and get angry.
Be terrified and get busy.
Be terrified and go to work.
Be terrified and fight like hell.
I wish more decent people in America remembered they are among the vast majority instead of acting as if they are helpless victims of Republican Christians. We could defeat them, and we need to. We just need to stop lamenting how much damage they are doing and start doing something to oppose them.
We’ve seen this play out throughout history and we know how it ends. We know what unchecked religious extremist is capable of and we know the cost of the silence and inaction of good people. We also know what people are capable of when they refuse to accept fascism and white supremacy cloaked in the Bible and wrapped in the flag, when they fight for something inherently good together.
As someone who knows just how much these Christians have lost the plot of their faith tradition, believe me when I tell you that they cannot be allowed to steer this nation. It will not end well for the disparate people who call it home or who one day wish to.
Love and equity and diversity are in the balance.
It’s time we made a choice.
It may be the last one we get.”

Pastor John Pavlovitz




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