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“Go Back”: MAGA Floods Kash Patel’s Diwali Post With Racism
How will Donald Trump’s fans feel when he also marks the holiday with an official White House event?
newrepublic.com
The MAGA crowd was appalled Monday as one of the Trump administration’s top officials dared to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights—and they weren’t shy about sharing their disgust.
FBI Director Kash Patel’s simple post commemorating the joyous holiday ushered in a scourge of vitriol from the Trump administration’s political base.
“Happy Diwali—celebrating the Festival of Lights around the world, as good triumphs over evil,” Patel wrote on his personal X account.
The post received nearly 3,000 comments—many of which were repulsed by Patel’s religion. Instead, they chastised paganism and condemned him for not choosing Jesus Christ, flagrantly forgetting the protections granted for freedom of religion by the First Amendment.
“This is a Christian Nation. Check your foreigner stuff at the gate,” commented X user John McGlone, whose bio describes him as an “unapologetic Christian American.”
A Christian nationalist known as Sons of Korah responded with a meme that read, “Not today Satan.”
X user Scott Hambrick symbolically flagged
Patel’s account for the Department of Homeland Security, responding to his Diwali post with just one word: “Deport.”
He wasn’t the only one. A self-described “Project 2025 respecter” on the site, Rusty Shackleford, wrote: “We need to deport all hindus.”
Ben Garrett, a pastor at Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah, had a particularly Christian response: “Go back.”
Gabriel Rench, the host of the CrossPolitic podcast, offered Patel a choice. “Here is the deal. Either go back to your home country or assimilate into Christian America,” Rench wrote. “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
