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Who’s Afraid Of (Talking About) The Christian Right?
Episode 215 uploaded September 1: Sam Goldman speaks with returning guest Annika Brockschmidt about the ideology
that binds Trump’s GOP. Brockschmidt is a trained historian, author and
journalist. She wrote two bestselling books on the history of the US
religious right and the Republican Party.
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Annika Brockschmidt: The role that Christian nationalism or Christian fascism plays on the American right is that it's really the glue that holds together various, at times, warring factions that don't necessarily like each other very much, or that even agree on sort of some basic ideological tenets. This is, I think, where J.D. Vance is such an interesting figure. He almost functions like a hinge between differing factions. Without understanding Christian nationalism, you cannot understand how the GOP today functions, how it got there, how the American right works, and what holds, these very differing coalitions, what holds them together.
Sam Goldman: We are witnessing something like a patriarchy renaissance right now, where traditional gender roles are being aggressively reasserted in innumerable ways. This is being presented as the solution to everything from crass materialism to empty individualism, from loneliness to the demise of the white race, from the acceptance of transgender people to challenges to the power and privileges that are supposed to belong exclusively to men by dint of being men.
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