#1568 The Shifting Landscape of the Religion-Conservative-Political Complex
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 June 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 6/25/2023
Today, we take a look at the state of the religious right as declining religiosity and the looming 2024 election put a strain on the movement.
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SHOW NOTES
Brad and Dan being by discussing Trump's indictment on federal charges. They then break down the life and death of Pat Robertson - an architect of the Religious Right and someone whose influence resounds in American Christian nationalism today
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the state of the religious right as declining religiosity and the looming |
| 0:12.7 | 2024 election puts strain on the movement. |
| 0:16.8 | Sources today include Straight White American Jesus, The Benjamin Dixon Show, The Holy |
| 0:22.0 | Post, The Muck Rake Political Podcast, The Damage Report, and The 538 Politics Podcast |
| 0:29.3 | with additional members only clips from Wisecrack and Sarah Martin. |
| 0:39.6 | So in 1979, the historian Rick Pearlstein points out that Robertson said this, we have enough |
| 0:46.6 | votes to run the country. |
| 0:48.6 | When people say we've had enough, we're going to take over. |
| 0:52.6 | So this is right in the Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan, horse race, presidential race. |
| 0:59.4 | This is right in the time when the more majority is gaining its theme, but you see the Christian |
| 1:03.1 | nationalism down. |
| 1:04.5 | We're going to take over. |
| 1:05.9 | We have enough votes to run the country. |
| 1:09.2 | Now what happens over the next couple of years is Robertson and the religious right grow |
| 1:12.7 | increasingly frustrated with Reagan. |
| 1:14.5 | The man they'd worked so hard to get into the White House. |
| 1:17.8 | So by 1988, Robertson launches his own bid for the presidency. |
| 1:22.7 | And he talks about this Christian coalition and this idea that we don't need Ronald Reagan. |
| 1:29.1 | One of us could be president. |
| 1:30.6 | We could be the one sitting in the Oval Office, not them. |
| 1:33.8 | Now that doesn't work out. |
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