The false religion of Trumpian American Christianism hungers to devour as many souls as possible and put them in the belly of the largest gulag on planet Earth, the US prison system.<\/a><\/p>\nTrumpian Christianists are, naturally, excited to see a vastly expanded\u2013and increasingly brown\u2013prison population thanks to Jeff Sessions, who is definitely not a racist and we should all be offended at the very suggestion that he is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026and proclaim liberty to the captive. The false religion of Trumpian American Christianism hungers to devour as many souls as possible and put them in the belly of the largest gulag on planet Earth, the US prison system. Trumpian Christianists are, naturally, excited to see a vastly expanded\u2013and increasingly brown\u2013prison population thanks to Jeff Sessions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[815],"class_list":["post-100201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-gulag"],"yoast_head":"\n
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