Issue #1,065 Thursday, August 20, 2026
Two days ago, on Tuesday, August 18, a guy named Jake Lang came to Dearborn to lead a comically mislabeled “Christian Crusader March” that attracted hundreds of similarly misguided followers who felt it was their obligation to follow Lang and confront a population full of Muslims to call them ugly names because Jake Lang knew this was something that would make the news. He also knew that this Christian (???) march of his would serve as a distraction – albeit temporary – from the ongoing and steadily worsening trials and tribulations of his true Lord and Savior Donald Trump, who is practically drowning in self-perpetuated crises threatening to derail his grip on power going into 2027.
It should be noted that Lang’s protests are part of a long and sordid history of anti-Muslim protests led by some Christian extremists who have targeted the city over the past 20 years, as its Muslim population has exploded to the point where it is now the first and largest Muslim-majority municipality inside the United States at more than 54%. It should also be noted that Lang was charged with attacking police officers in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill, but was later pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Lang ultimately got to say whatever worthless remarks he delivered to the Dearborn City Council Tuesday evening as the purposefully created disturbance continued outside, eventually leading to at least seven arrests, according to the Detroit Free Press. Understandably, a number of Dearborn residents and business owners were nervous about the threat of potential violence. Some businesses were shut down for the entire day.
But just as interesting as Lang’s diversionary march itself is who was assisting him with that march, namely Detroit’s own Trump-loving Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, a Black pastor who has become one of Trump’s Black darlings for his support in rallying Black voters – including a host of misguided Black pastors – to support his con game of an administration.
Rev. Sewell has become one of the most visible Black conservative pastors in Detroit and one of Trump’s most prominent African-American religious supporters. His rise is particularly interesting because he has combined Detroit church leadership, conservative Christian politics, Trump’s outreach to Black voters, and national Republican politics altogether into a twisted recipe of a message that he delivers as a defense for why he continues to support Trump (and others should as well) despite, well, every damned thing.
But apparently, Sewell’s defense of Trump now extends beyond his (other) Lord and Savior Trump to include the likes of Lang, whose activities during the January 6 riot alone blatantly contradict any claim he ever had to be a representative of Christianity. I ain’t nobody’s religious scholar, but I do know how to read, and it’s not hard to make that distinction if you can read. Yet for whatever reason, none of this matters to Sewell, who seems to believe it’s more important to shelter the oppressor than those the oppressor seeks to oppress.
I’d love to say this won’t get worse, but it’s plain to see that it will. Because distractions, ugliness, and sheer brutality are all they have on the Republican side of the fence. Combine those traits with sheer desperation, and you can only imagine what they have in store between now and November 3.
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