The MAGA Christian movement is extreme, and like most extremes, it is a minority. But they are loud and vicious. Naturally, they see more mainstream Christians as the extremists. RELIGION ‘FAKE’ CHRISTIAN? OR FAITHFUL? Though MAGA believers call James Talarico “blasphemous,” he’s squarely within his Mainline Presbyterian tradition. And that’s a timely reminder of the diversity of Christianity in Texas and beyond. by DAVID R. BROCKMAN JUNE 3, 2026, 10:51 AM, CDT “One of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian.” That’s how conservative New York Times columnist David French recently characterized James Talarico and the Texas Democrat’s “faith-forward” campaign for the U.S. Senate. It should come as no surprise that Talarico walks the Christian walk: He’s currently on leave from his training for the ministry at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (APTS). However, given the MAGA Christian response to the young politician-seminarian, you might think it was the Antichrist running for the Senate. He’s been called “demonic,” a “fake Christian,” and “blasphemous,” with “very, very radical and extreme views.” One Newsmax host accused him of using “fake passages from the Bible, tortured and misrepresented.” Talarico has drawn fire for characterizing God as “nonbinary,” though he later explained he meant God is “beyond gender” (a common theological notion). U.S. Representative Ronny Jackson, an Amarillo Republican, said the statement showed Talarico is “a full-on RADICAL LEFTIST!!” Such over-the-top rhetoric is a sad fact of life in this age of post-truth hyperbole. But the ferocity of anti-Talarico invective reveals a deep and very public clash between two distinct ways of being Christian. While MAGA Christians insist that the Bible dictates their anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant Christian nationalism, the Mainline Protestant tradition—of which Talarico’s Presbyterian Church (USA) is a part—has a very different understanding of what it means to follow Jesus, one that leads to a politics precisely opposite from that of MAGA Christians. Within this Mainline tradition, Talarico is quite orthodox. His campaign, then, and the shrill attacks it provokes from right-wing Christians, is a vivid reminder of just how varied Christianity is. And paradoxically, Talarico’s unabashedly biblical politics also underscore the imperative of defending our nation’s venerable, but now vulnerable, tradition of church-state separation. … Whether he’ll be Texas’ future senator remains to be seen. But his “faith-forward” campaign reminds us of our state’s religious diversity—and of our shared imperative to guard against religious tyranny.
Fox: By a 15-point margin, Ohioans view Trump negatively: 42% hold a favorable opinion and 57% an unfavorable one. That’s more than a 20-point swing compared to his +6 net positive rating (52-46%) in the November 2024 Ohio Fox News Voter Analysis election survey. The poll of Ohio voters, released Wednesday, finds Trump’s ratings are about on par with views of Republican incumbent Senator Jon Husted (41% favorable, 50% unfavorable), while challenger and former Ohio Senator Brown is viewed significantly more positively (53% vs. 44%). That helps Brown outperform Husted by a 53% to 45% margin in the race to fill the state’s Senate seat. His 8-point lead is outside the poll’s margin of sampling error.
I can't see Paxton doing a debate with Talarico. They're trying this whole beta thing, but Talarico is much better looking, towers over him and has a much better speaking voice.
It is still to early to be that significant but ... damn. The Rs are going to have to drop big $$$ in Ohio (and Texas ftm) in what should have been a calk walk.
Yeah, it’s still early, but it already suggests that incumbent Republicans are being weighed down by Trump’s unpopularity... fairly so, given how readily they fall in line with whatever he wants.
Id likely avoid voting for senator in November if I lived in Maine. But if this mess of human being is what Maine wants… good for them?
The GOP has unified control of the presidency and Congress, plus a friendly Supreme Court. How have liberals ruined anything since January 2025?
It' must be so hard for someone to keep defending the old con in the White House. All they can do is say the majority of Americans hate America. LOL. They will never admit it isn't America they hate, but the old con running the country. The president's net approval rating is -25, down 0.8 points since last week. 35% approve, 60% disapprove, 5% not sure. Trump is the one spitting on America, as he does whatever the hell he wants, recklessly prioritizing everything but the issues at home. The cult wants to be just like Trump, and blame it all on everyone but Trump.
I need liberals to go **** themselves. I was a democrat. Would still be if not for the racism of the left.
Liberals don't have any control of the federal government nor do they control the supreme court. You morons control every chamber of government yet cry like b****es cuz you've been brainwashed by social media. You're dumber than a bag rocks
Only logical conclusion is that folks like this in the maga cult have personal lives that are an absolute disaster, and filled with anger and depression. The liberal derangement syndrome fed to them by right wing propaganda is nothing more than an addictive drug to channel that rage and depression into a cause. The whole Nazi anti semitic movement was started by people preying on exactly the same type of groups of society in Germany who were angry about their disasters of a life, and depression and projected that hate onto Jews, homosexuals, and other minority groups. It’s the oldest trick in the book and as clear to see as anything in our society. Very dangerous stuff and we should not take lightly the amount of danger that this poses to our society moving forward.
I hope someday you get the help you so desperately need. All this anger mixed with stupidity just isn't healthy.
Lol. This is what I’m talking about. Stupid **** like your post here. I mean, do you practice your nauseating, insufferable virtue signaling in the mirror?
I don’t think you even know what virtue signaling means. Stating an observation is not that. Regardless you seriously need help. This much anger and violent rhetoric mixed with wild ignorance is going to get yourself or someone else hurt. Hopefully someone in your life if you have someone that you actually have a relationship with can help ensure that you are not a threat.
