Salon advances claim that 'MAGA and Christian nationalism' constitute greater threats than Hamas 'could ever be'

Salon was unable to wait a full week after Hamas terrorists massacred thousands of Israelis and slaughtered at least 33 Americans before reminding its readership that Christian Republicans were the real threat to focus on. The leftist blog published an unhinged polemic from former White House correspondent Brian Karem on Oct. 12, suggesting that the Republican Party and Hamas are "both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree."

With venom to spare, Karem doubled down in a similar piece Thursday, suggesting that "MAGA and Christian nationalism" together constitute a greater threat to America than "Hamas could ever be."

In the earlier piece, Karem lashed out at Republican lawmakers who dared to suggest that the unpopular 80-year-old Democratic president exuded weakness and helped set the stage for the attacks on Israel, neglecting to touch upon the distinct possibility that Hamas terrorists got their hands on American weapons abandoned in Afghanistan during Biden's botched withdrawal.

Among the Biden critics who had drawn Karem's ire was Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) — a survivor of a far more focused leftist attack — who suggested on Oct. 7, "The Biden administration must be held accountable for its appeasement of these Hamas terrorists, including handing over billions of dollars to them and their Iranian backers."

Karem stressed Scalise was lying but didn't waste ink explaining precisely how.

After once again running block for Biden, Karem equated the GOP both with Hamas and with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding, "Trump and many other politicians in this country are not so different from the craziest leaders in many foreign nations. They preach division. They preach hate. They teach fear."

"There is little difference between [Sen. Tim] Scott, Scalise and Hamas," added the former Playboy writer, apparently keen to downplay Hamas' distinguishing penchant for rape and mass murder as well as its apparent common cause with BLM activists and Democratic lawmakers.

In his latest piece for Salon, the leftist blogger unwittingly credited House Speaker Mike Johnson with not mistaking the American constitutional republic for a democracy, but proceeded to claim that Johnson and people like him intended to transform the country into a Christian theocracy untroubled by foreign entanglements.

"They want an isolationist country surrounded by walls and dedicated to the proposition that the First Amendment guarantees them the right to worship any way they want — while forcing the rest of us to worship the way they choose," wrote Karem. "The House of Representatives, now run by Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm the holy rollers have dreamed of for years. They've renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven't read much of it."

Toward the end of his frenzied piece, Karem referenced a number of issues and tragedies — such as the hurricane that rocked Acapulco and mass shootings in gun-controlled, Democrat-run states — intimating that too few people in the press are as smart or as experienced as he is to tackle it all.

Karem's polemic has already been ratioed on X. At the time of publication, the leftist blog's article on X had roughly 5,000 comments and fewer than 500 likes.

Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee clarified, "Not satire."

Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, responded, "It's not just former Playboy correspondents who think this way. It's your taxpayer funded security and law enforcement apparatus. And worse than just thinking, they act this way."

Television personality Meghan McCain responded simply, "Go f*** yourself."

Republican congressional candidate Abe Hamadeh noted, "2024 is about whether our country will return to being a nation of laws or a nation run by psychos who will jail every single person who stands in the way of their Marxist takeover."

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik wrote, "When is the last time you saw a Christian or a Maga supporter dawn [sic] a suicide vest, and detonate themselves[?]"

Concordia University professor Gad Saad responded, "Slowly we inch to the abyss of infinite lunacy."

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