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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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.
Doesn’t calling for a second just admit the first one WAS an attack.?
Does he know he’s black?
Like many republicans, he’s privately revolted by himself.
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”
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.
That’s some traitor shit
That deserves an arrest for incitement.
Pretty sure that’s tax fraud proof, too.
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.
Exactly what I was thinking
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
Maybe if he volunteers to play the role of Ashli Babbitt.
MAGA pastor calls for violence and intolerance. More news at 11.
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Bro, they want to lynch you
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?
Who can even afford the gas to get to the capital?
“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…
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].
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.
What does he mean? I thought they said it was just a friendly little visit to the capitol.
Are they now admitting what it was?
And meanwhile, further up the community, dumbfuck is calling for democrats to be investigated for “making threats.” You can NOT make this stuff up. 🤦♀️
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.
