Republicans across the country are not taking their historic midterm beatdown in stride, and according to a recent report from Right Wing Watch, a notably MAGA-linked pastor has taken his despair a step further, calling for “another January 6.”
Lorenzo Sewell is the leader of 180 Church, a non-denominational Christian church based in Detroit, and has become increasingly connected with GOP and MAGA politics in the last several years. In 2024, he was a guest speaker at the Republican National Convention, and in 2025, he conducted one of the benedictions at Trump’s second-term inauguration. Recently, reports have even suggested that he is considering running for public office himself as a Republican.
Right Wing Watch’s report this week also described Sewell as “an ardent stolen election conspiracy theorist whose obsession with exposing alleged voter fraud has become too extreme even for the Trump White House.” Now, his rejection of election results that are unflattering to Republicans and the MAGA movement has continued, as during an appearance on the “FlashPoint” podcast after the midterm blue wave, he once again called the elections fraudulent and suggested Trump’s followers should rise up against them.
Sewell’s argument for why fraud must have taken place in the midterms echoed the common right-wing misconception about elections, often lampooned with the phrase “land doesn’t vote.” Often, conservatives might share electoral maps of certain states with more counties colored red, and argue that this must be an indication that the state should elect Republicans in state-wide races, despite the fact that Democrats tend to win counties that are more heavily populated, giving them the edge.
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Immediately remove tax exemption too.
church tax exemption needs to fucking end. or churches need to end. try the first. if it’s too hard, try the second.
It’s unpopular, but I disagree. Just because people are currently biased against Christianity (for good reason) does not mean tax exemption against places of worship should end. There’s still a lot of churches of multiple different faiths that feed the hungry, house the unhoused, and clean the unkempt. Until there’s a reliable safety net in place to do that, taxing the good will of congregations that genuinely trust their church more than government (for good reason) to care for those in need is moving backward.
All of these should be publicly funded social services with accountability for every cent used, not some independent entity with no accountability that uses the needs of our most vulnerable to spread some 2000+ year old fairy tale.