Nation Magazine Smears Thanksgiving: Calls Pilgrims ‘Doomsday Cultists’

The far-left Nation used the Thanksgiving holiday to recast the Pilgrims and Puritans as “radical Protestant doomsday groups” whose “cultish” ideology, it argues, “became the foundation of American culture,” urging Americans to treat the day as “as good a time as any to begin coming to terms with the country’s radical cultish origins.”

In a feature titled “The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists,” author Amanda Montell contends the settlers who arrived in Plymouth were “not escaping religious persecution” at all but instead “left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas,” insisting they “were no doubt eager to continue building their patriarchal theocracy in the hope that Jesus would soon return.”

“The Pilgrims and Puritans were high-control radical Protestant doomsday gro