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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Please break into Congress and poop in Nancy Pelosi’s desk a second time.
You get bad fruit from bad trees, as they like to say, and he is another example of the unhealthy, authoritarian type, which the guy they claim to follow was against. The stories paint a hero for the least among us, outcasts, women, the unclean, etc. and against hierarchies and the establishment that made such impossible rules it turned people away. The story about healing the Centurion’s lover back home, remote healing as Mel White said, and other stories of turn the other cheek, help the meek, and rebuke phonies like this clown. If you want to stay in the faith at least be like Mel. https://youtu.be/xf7WIvEsR0Y
Real truth does set free from the unfalsifiable demands, the damage and baggage of the shame/blame, punish/reward systems. Real truth withstands questions and doesn’t demand obedience and ignore facts, unlike the dry sand foundation of some flavors of supernatural systems. They fall apart at the simplest scrutiny they get upset about and move the goalposts with each new discovery. They fail at Sagan’s baloney kit, partly because none of these supernatural traditions were meant to be science or medical textbooks, yet too many still do that today. Maybe they accept some medical help, but some also reject proven vaccines, and cause needless suffering to innocent victims.
Faith is supposed to allow room for doubt and mystery, but that got subverted and hijacked by the hierarchy. We are the cosmos observing itself, made from primordial hydrogen and elements exploded from supernova and other cosmic events! DNA that has survived all the extinction events to become human, typing/reading this today, the cosmos in each of us, and nothing after this, that is freedom through truth!
They need ANOTHER Peaceful Protest that does NOTHING violent or Illegal?
No no no. I’m being told this was an Antifa False Flag Riot and you shouldn’t be deceived by the Lying Liberal Media
Doesn’t calling for a second just admit the first one WAS an attack.?
Does he know he’s black?
The Uncle Tom grift is one of the oldest in the book. Americans of all stripes will pay good money to hear a black man tell them that racism is okay.
They won’t eat his face.
He knows he’s very comfortable.
Like many republicans, he’s privately revolted by himself.
No, they shut off (or are in some cases just born without) the part of human personality that would do that.
They are shameless.
That gives them too much credit and self awareness. They find people revolting who get to live the way they wish that they could. “I’m not like that because I’m not allowed to be because it’s “wrong” for some reason, you shouldn’t be allowed either”
That deserves an arrest for incitement.
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.
They can itemize and write those off like any other business.
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.
Exactly what I was thinking
Pretty sure that’s tax fraud proof, too.
Isn’t it a terrorist threat?
Uh, not a Muslim, or Antifa? Therefore cannot be terrorist?
He’s black so it must be gang related
So he’s using a pulpit to openly advocate for a political revolution-adjacent response? We all oughta be reporting his fucking megachurch for violations of tax exemption requirements.
How about charge him with incitement to insurrection?
Unfortunately the people who would do that are corrupted.
I think you mean “maga” church.
Tomato, tomato
Why not? Trump pardoned all of them. This is what he wants. He’s going to get violence because he both incited it, and also forgave it with zero consequences.
MAGA pastor calls for violence and intolerance. More news at 11.
That’s some traitor shit
“Apparently unable to understand the concept of population density, Sewell insisted that states like Texas, Michigan, and Ohio are red states and therefore could not have possibly elected Democrats,” the report explained.
“Out of 83 counties in Michigan, [Republican gubernatorial candidate] John James won 69 of them,” Sewell declared. “Do you know that even [Democratic Senate candidate James] Talarico, he won—watch this—he only won 31 counties? There’s over 204 counties in Texas. In [Republican Ohio Senate candidate Jon] Husted and [Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod] Brown, Brown only won 16 counties. There’s 88 counties in Ohio.”
Another bright bulb from the conservatives…
What they don’t understand from the red/blue maps is that land doesn’t vote. Show them a population density map.
This is how conservatives argue: in bad faith. The data is out there, they just choose to discount it wholesale because academia has an inherent liberal (reality based) bias. They project their own corruption onto it, ie, If we ran the numbers, it would reveal the real truth. When they hear these arguments of big number us, small number them, it reinforces their worldview of the “silent majority”, without any sort of context to the data provided that explains how things actually work—that their “big number” actually signifies less people across more landmass (in certain areas of course, this is not universally true).
The truth is out there. They want to believe [alternative facts instead].
They explicitly do not want their supporters understanding concepts like “per capita.”
I wish I was joking, there are people who think “per capita” was made up by liberals to make conservatives look bad.
The density of the population does indeed affect the density of the population
They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.
Excuse me, Lorenzo, or may I call you Tom?
But really, what are you meant to January 6th? Every single government building in the US? What an idiot
Down to, what, every post office in the country? That’s going to take all damn day.
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Bro, they want to lynch you
Maybe if he volunteers to play the role of Ashli Babbitt.
But I thought January 6th wasn’t real and was just a bunch of liberal crisis actors making honest hard working Trump supporters look bad?
