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"Christian fascism" with or without racial undertones is a perpetual progressive bogeyman and was thrown at George W. Bush as well. The gist of the idea, as far as I can tell, is that the republican party is running cover for some kind of weird hybrid of the KKK and Christian theocracy that's going to implement some kind of sharia-law-esque system with precursors disguised as your local evangelical megachurch. Older versions of the fever dream tended to have fantasias about this theocracy turning against Catholics, Jews, and sometimes completely random other groups, but that idea seems to have fallen out of favor recently with right-wing Catholics being integral to Trump's staffing plans and Jews turning towards the right with recent events.
Of course in reality the Christian right has functionally no religious test, anyone can visit an evangelical megachurch and report back that sharia law doesn't seem in development, and religious conservatism understands full well it's a junior partner to whatever the dominant faction in the republican coalition is at any given moment.
Why this idea is flaring up now is some combination of dobbs derangement and Trump looking extremely likely to win; historically the "Republicans are going to usher in a white supremacist fascist (often specifically evangelical protestant)Christian theocracy" rhetoric has been a response to an ascendant right wing.
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