"Christian Nationalism," Anti-Flag (2019)


This one never gets old, unfortunately. More pop punk, so maybe I like more of it than I thought. Straight up radical leftist Antifa on Fox News. As an updating edit, I'm apt to change "you're no better than the rest" to "you're the worst of the worst" but Antiflag nails it with appropriate Swiftian sneer: "We all know who you are." Christian Nationalism is the paranoid style as religious community. It's tough guy Christianity, which means violent, intolerant, and militantly fascist on principles. American Nazis, basically. They're really not pro-life so much as they're in fact anti-women's rights, which we hope is another big reason they lose at the ballot box this fall but there are Billionaires out there more afraid of democratic reforms (or women's rights, apparently) than violent fascist dictatorship. (Again, not unlike with the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s.) So maybe it can happen here after all?! Anyway, Antiflag are from Pittsburgh. They've put out over a dozen albums since 1996, with titles like A New Kind of Army and The General Strike. Maybe the best leftist pop-punk band? 

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