All of us risk situations in which our biases lead us to chase chimeras rather than deal with a real threat before us. Most of us course-correct when faced with reality. We’re not the French, building a Maginot line against the Germans, while ignoring the route through the Ardennes. Leftists, however, never course-correct, at least when it comes to panicking about Christians while ignoring radical Islam.
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Jared Huffman, a Democrat House member from California, personifies this problem. Even as Muslims are storming the West and engaging in tens of thousands of deadly acts against non-Muslims across the world, including America, he’s convinced he knows the real threat America faces: Christian nationalism
To that end, Huffman has written a book entitled No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism. Huffman’s hometown newspaper, The Marin IJ, has given Huffman a glowing review. Note my careful language: It’s not a book review; it’s a Huffman review, touting his statements and focusing on his upbringing as proof that he knows his subject.
The first sentence sets the tone: “Rep. Jared Huffman witnessed the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, from his office on Capitol Hill.” Yeah, the famous insurrection when unarmed people walked through doors that the Capitol Police held open for them and, carefully staying between the rope lines, walked respectfully through Congress, and then walked out again. That “insurrection.”
But Huffman noticed something deeper than people worried about an election with mail-in voting that was an invitation to fraud, suspicious electronic equipment, vote counts that all stopped in the wee hours when Trump was leading, only to resume with Biden suddenly vaulting into the lead, and the fact that Biden didn’t win any bellwether counties. Instead, he saw a sinister religious crusade.
Thus, the article continues:
On that day and the weeks leading up to it — as protesters thronged Washington, D.C., to overturn Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election — Huffman was struck by the veins of extremist religion wending their way through those events.
These were not gentle, Sermon on the Mount-style expressions of faith.
“The MAGA Christian nationalism Trump stoked seethed with grievance and hatred,” Huffman, a seven-term Democrat from San Rafael, says in his new book, “No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism.”
(Queue scary music.)
According to the essay, Huffman suddenly realized that the Christian nationalists lurking behind the so-called insurrection had created “the single most dangerous political movement now facing America.” He even quotes Sinclair Lewis’s statement that “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Lewis, it should be noted, was an avowed socialist and a man completely crippled by alcoholism throughout his life.
According to Huffman, Liz Cheney, whom we conservatives view as the fanatic anti-Trump leader of the kangaroo hearing that was the January 6 probe, failed in her duty by quashing evidence that the alleged insurrection was actually a Christian nationalist plot:
Huffman, who is running for reelection in November, sheds new light in the book on the decision by committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, to exclude from the report its extensive findings on the role played by Christian nationalism in the insurrection.
She feared that any criticism of right-wing Christians would be seized on by Fox News and other conservative outlets “to discredit the entire report and alienate millions of ordinary Christians,” Huffman writes.
Huffman has a real issue with Christians—and it’s personal. It turns out that he was raised in a fundamentalist congregation in Missouri, and he views Christianity through that prism:
Raised in Independence, Missouri, he worshipped in a congregation that was an offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Huffman’s church was open to “direct prophecy,” he recalls, a tradition that has long “offered fertile ground for eccentric spin-offs and self-anointed visionaries.”
In its healthiest form, prophetic belief “animates churches with vitality,” he writes. “Like unstable DNA,” however, “it invites mutation.”
Under pressure, “prophetic fervor becomes dangerous” — as Huffman knows too well. (Emphasis mine.)
If your church isn’t preaching that God got it wrong when He claimed there were only two sexes and He condemned homosexuality, it’s a problem.
Today, Huffman calls himself a humanist, which I’ve come to understand means that humans get to make their own rules, many of which are built on four thousand years of Biblical tradition, except when tradition gets in the way of political power or personal lifestyle preferences:
Huffman, who worked as an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a leading environmental group, before launching his political career, eventually found clarity in humanism, which he describes as “a moral framework that emphasizes human reason and agency,” while affirming “our responsibility to lead meaningful, ethical lives based on compassion and rational inquiry, without the inducement of fear of an afterlife.”
While Huffman obsesses about Christians, he seems peculiarly blind to problems with Islam—problems like 9/11 or the almost 50,000 explicitly Islamic terrorist attacks committed since then. There is no comparable list even possible for Christians, Jews, Hindus, or any other faith.
Over the years, Huffman has bent over backward to assure Muslims that he’s got their backs:
- He stood firmly against Trump’s 2017 order temporarily halting entry into America from countries that export Islamic violence.
- In November 2023, after Hamas’s October attack on Israel resulted in a wave of antisemitic protests and violence across the West, while acknowledging that Hamas and antisemitism are bad, Huffman spoke out about…Islamophobia and refused to join a House resolution condemning antisemitism.
- In February 2024, as American antisemitism escalated, he stood firmly with…Muslims.
- And just recently, while shilling his book, he said that it wasn’t fair to look at Muslim violence and blame the mosque (which mostly preaches violence) and not the church (which, it may surprise him, mostly doesn’t).
I’m picking on Huffman, but he’s representative of the entire Democrat monolith. Just like the Democratic Socialists and the jihadists among us, Huffman, like his fellow Democrats, hates the Bible and he hates America.
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