This blistering poem names Trump’s white evangelical base as a devolved “new species,” exposing their worship, cruelty, and hypocrisy in vivid, unforgettable images.
Whatever side of the aisle one stands on, the craft here is undeniable.
The taxonomy alone: Homo regressus evangelicus, Homo hypocritica, is sharp, almost Swiftian. You turn political rage into evolutionary satire, and that move gives the piece both distance and bite. It reads less like a rant and more like an autopsy.
There are lines that land with real poetic muscle:
“thirty-four felonies / sound like bells in their churches”
“belief costs less / than seeing”
“they have devolved past mirrors”
That’s not just polemic, that’s compression. Image doing the work argument usually tries to shout through.
What stands out most is the sustained metaphor. You commit to the species frame and carry it all the way through without losing rhythm. That’s discipline. That’s chops.
It’s ferocious, yes. But it’s also constructed: layered, patterned, intentional.
Whatever one feels about the politics, the poetry has teeth.
It doesn’t need to snarl louder, the bite is already in the bone. The restraint is what makes it dangerous. Too much more and it becomes noise. As it stands, it cuts clean.
Sometimes the sharpest protest is the one that knows exactly when to stop sharpening.
Holy discernment and ! Powerful wordsmithy Amazing poetry of these political attempts to thwart our representative democracy forget basic Christ-directed compassion for humanity! Such discernment anfd compositional skills well needed that you brought to our awareness and attention! Thank you from my deepest awareness of the hellacious mess criminal trump regime has reduced us to!
This is a further WAKE-UP and CALL-to ACTION! 🇺🇸♥️🙏🥰🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸
Now, that is a poem deserving of an award. That is a poem for the history books. A poem to be translated into all a languages. A ppoem to be resited as "The Pledge of Alliance". To be sung like "The Star Spangled Banner."
I couldn’t agree more! When I first read it everything landed. It was as though there is no more space for their hypocrisy within humanity and humanitarian norms. And for those who elect to hold onto the belief white is right, let it be known your days are numbered.
Agreed. This is not a poem to read, and then turn to other things. It invites fury, pain, disgust, truth to raise up its desiccated wings, and learn to fly again.
Your words are unique and so appropriate. Your writing is strong and so truthful. I love, appreciate, and understand everything word you wrote. It so needs to be out in the entire world but word those who marked his x understand it and what is truly happening in the world we no longer know. Thank you so much for putting it in words and on paper for all to read and try to understand. Keep writing.
Loved this is kind of a weird way to feel, but it was so powerful, full of truth that can't be denied. It explains why we're rightfully angry, heck we're rightfully furious. They have taken all that is sacred, all that is patriotic, all that we love about our country and have made a mockery of it. They have taken a government and Constitution that was heavenly sent, and have turned it into something ugly and evil. But of course they're in the right, theyre Christians and Trump was sent by God. I think that's a whisper away from blasphemy.
YOUR REPLY IS AS "BRILLIANT", AS THE POEM. ALTHOUGH I DO NOT POSSESS THE ABILITY TO WRITE IT, "I MOST CERTAINLY COMPREHEND AND AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH IT! BLESSED ARE THE EDUCATORS!🥰
I agree with everything you say! I wish they could be stopped immediately! I’m concerned that any Republican will do the right thing and vote them out because they have to vote for an “R” and will not vote for a Democrat even if the Republican is the devil like corrupt convicted felon Putin puppet pedophile trump!
You are on point! The “silent majority” wants to hang its opponents on trees. They claim Christianity but don’t study the Scriptures. Their God is not Jesus Christ, but Mammon. I will continue to keep 2 Peter 3:10 and James 5:1-12 close to my heart and soul.
Whatever side of the aisle one stands on, the craft here is undeniable.
The taxonomy alone: Homo regressus evangelicus, Homo hypocritica, is sharp, almost Swiftian. You turn political rage into evolutionary satire, and that move gives the piece both distance and bite. It reads less like a rant and more like an autopsy.
There are lines that land with real poetic muscle:
“thirty-four felonies / sound like bells in their churches”
“belief costs less / than seeing”
“they have devolved past mirrors”
That’s not just polemic, that’s compression. Image doing the work argument usually tries to shout through.
What stands out most is the sustained metaphor. You commit to the species frame and carry it all the way through without losing rhythm. That’s discipline. That’s chops.
It’s ferocious, yes. But it’s also constructed: layered, patterned, intentional.
Whatever one feels about the politics, the poetry has teeth.
Thank you, Dipti, as always, your comment is so engaged and interested. I wished to add more teeth but it's already too long and heavy. 🫂
Oh, it has teeth.
It doesn’t need to snarl louder, the bite is already in the bone. The restraint is what makes it dangerous. Too much more and it becomes noise. As it stands, it cuts clean.
Sometimes the sharpest protest is the one that knows exactly when to stop sharpening.
Brilliant.
And so it shall come to pass ❤️🔥👊🏼
Thank you for reading this poem with me! Hopefully it will soon.
Holy discernment and ! Powerful wordsmithy Amazing poetry of these political attempts to thwart our representative democracy forget basic Christ-directed compassion for humanity! Such discernment anfd compositional skills well needed that you brought to our awareness and attention! Thank you from my deepest awareness of the hellacious mess criminal trump regime has reduced us to!
This is a further WAKE-UP and CALL-to ACTION! 🇺🇸♥️🙏🥰🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸
Thank you so much, Laura! Appreciate you reading this one, it’s so important.
Ditto.
Brilliant
Thank you. Credit to Nicole..
Now I need to read the other stories you have posted. This one was excellent.
Please do. Thank you for your kind words.
Read, understood, thank you.
Clueless. Deranged. Useful idiots. Try to understand.
This is the most descriptive and powerful thing I’ve read to date. Holy shit
Thank you, Olly! 🙏
I agree. Every word building the narrative of the truth drowning in the darkness of blood and lizard minded slime.
Wow! Well done!!
Thank you so much! 🙏🙌 it needed a term for the mental degeneration and I like to invent words and terminology. 😊
Now, that is a poem deserving of an award. That is a poem for the history books. A poem to be translated into all a languages. A ppoem to be resited as "The Pledge of Alliance". To be sung like "The Star Spangled Banner."
Bravo.
Thank you, Veronica! 🙏🙏
I couldn’t agree more! When I first read it everything landed. It was as though there is no more space for their hypocrisy within humanity and humanitarian norms. And for those who elect to hold onto the belief white is right, let it be known your days are numbered.
So be it, thank you for reading this one with us!
Agreed 💯And such talent to be shared‼️Thank you❕💙
Agreed. This is not a poem to read, and then turn to other things. It invites fury, pain, disgust, truth to raise up its desiccated wings, and learn to fly again.
Thank you, Marcia!
Your words are unique and so appropriate. Your writing is strong and so truthful. I love, appreciate, and understand everything word you wrote. It so needs to be out in the entire world but word those who marked his x understand it and what is truly happening in the world we no longer know. Thank you so much for putting it in words and on paper for all to read and try to understand. Keep writing.
Thank you, Lois! 🙏
Love this! Thank you for sharing your creativity and inspirational insight.
Thank you, Brenda! 🙏
👏 damn this is so good I had to restack. Gorgeous truth that slashes like a blade. Never stop 🐦⬛
Thank you, Shadow! 🫂🐦⬛
That’s White Christian/ Christofascist Nationalism which is modern day Phariseeism/ scribal FALSE RELIGION.
Thank you for reading, Frank! Indeed they are fake Christians.
The Progressive Presbyterian minister Mark Sandlin calls them Cosplaying Christians, Nicole.
Genius.
Thank you, Michael!
Loved this is kind of a weird way to feel, but it was so powerful, full of truth that can't be denied. It explains why we're rightfully angry, heck we're rightfully furious. They have taken all that is sacred, all that is patriotic, all that we love about our country and have made a mockery of it. They have taken a government and Constitution that was heavenly sent, and have turned it into something ugly and evil. But of course they're in the right, theyre Christians and Trump was sent by God. I think that's a whisper away from blasphemy.
Thank you, Nancy! Everyone is angry about this mockery of values.
YOUR REPLY IS AS "BRILLIANT", AS THE POEM. ALTHOUGH I DO NOT POSSESS THE ABILITY TO WRITE IT, "I MOST CERTAINLY COMPREHEND AND AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH IT! BLESSED ARE THE EDUCATORS!🥰
This is as beautiful as the maggots on the murder wound. Concise, sharp and gut-wrenching. Thank you for sharing this vision.
Thank you, Wolf!
One cannot say, “they know not what they do,” because they do know and I’d say that is the definition of evil, a word I don’t believe using. 😑
You are right, Sandra, thank you for reading this!
I was captivated throughout your words, traveling through the life and veins of MAGA, without once accusing. Bravo!
Thank you! 🙏
I agree with everything you say! I wish they could be stopped immediately! I’m concerned that any Republican will do the right thing and vote them out because they have to vote for an “R” and will not vote for a Democrat even if the Republican is the devil like corrupt convicted felon Putin puppet pedophile trump!
Sandra, thank you for reading! We have to do whatever each of us can. Some can vote, some can write, some can protest!
You are on point! The “silent majority” wants to hang its opponents on trees. They claim Christianity but don’t study the Scriptures. Their God is not Jesus Christ, but Mammon. I will continue to keep 2 Peter 3:10 and James 5:1-12 close to my heart and soul.
Thank you, Joseph!
Well written and words strong to the injustice , they call Christianity. (Christian, means Christ like) which they are not.
The day has come and the truth is spoken. No longer to silent.
Thank you, Maria!
Your welcome,