Dan Fisher is a right-wing activist, Christian nationalist pastor, and leader in modern-day Black Robe Regiment movement which works to mobilize pastors to get their congregations more involved in politics.
Recently, Fisher appeared on the "Uncommon Sense In Current Times" program where he declared that the government created by the Founding Fathers has failed and the only logical solution is for United States to dissolve itself so that those living in red states and blue states can separate themselves from one another and "do their thing."
"I think we've already lost the republic," Fisher said. "I think that trying to hold together the blue states and the red states that hold diametrically opposed views on some of the core issues of life. ... These are differences about when does life begin? Should you have the right to murder your baby up to 30 days after it's born if you decide you don't want it? Does an individual have the right to self-defense and can own firearms? Do you have the freedom to preach what you believe, regardless of what others think about it? Those are the issues and we're diametrically opposed. You can't reconcile those diametrically opposed views. So, in my opinion, we're holding together a make-believe republic that probably died many decades ago."
"Until we're willing to admit the obvious and then deal with it, we're eventually going to be pulled into some kind of horrific conflict," he continued. "Look at what happens in cities like LA. Look at these fruitcakes that go and shoot these Minnesota representatives, people or members of government, just because they don't agree with them. It's ridiculous. And look at the rhetoric. Look at how [MN Gov.]Tim Walz speaks at his rallies. First of all, he's a buffoon in my opinion, but it's obvious that the rift is there, but we ignore it because we're trying to hold together something that I think has already gone by the wayside."
"Let's admit the obvious and stop trying to live under the same form of governance that won't serve both groups," Fisher asserted. "I think we've probably already lost it and we need to admit that and create, as the Declaration of Independence says, a new form of government that protects our rights."
Fisher said that he is often asked what he thinks would most surprise the Founding Fathers about the nation today and his response is that "we haven't had a revolution."
"I think they would be surprised that we're trying to live 250 years later under the same form of governance that they created two and a half centuries earlier," he declared. "They would look at our present situation and say, 'Good grief, you guys really think that you can live under a republican form of government with these diametrically opposed groups? No. You need to get away from those people and let them do their thing and you do your thing.'"
