#1643 Extremism Comes in Many Forms: SCOTUS goes hard-right, Project 2025 in the spotlight, and Christian Nationalism unmasked in Assassination Nation
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 7/20/2024
Extremism comes in many forms and we live in an era in which way too many of them are on display simultaneously, but it's not coincidence. The far right has been working toward an extremist Supreme Court for decades. Christian Nationalists have similarly been trying to impose their rigid view of far-right Christianity on the rest of us for a very long time. The far-right Heritage Foundation now deems this to be the time to attempt to radicalize the federal bureaucracy, and far-right calls for political violence and lax gun laws resulted in an environment where no one was really all that surprised about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Opinionpalooza The Supreme Court End-of-Term Breakfast Table - Amicus - Air Date 7-6-24
KP 3: Just Decide the EMTALA Case Already, You Cowards - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-27-24
KP 4: What is Project 2025 - Today, Explained - Air Date 7-11-24
KP 6: Republicans issue vile reaction to Trump shooting - No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 7-15-24
(57:30) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On what should come next for the Democrats
DEEPER DIVES
(1:05:02) SECTION A: SUPREME COURT
(1:51:47) SECTION B: PROJECT 2025
(2:07:10) SECTION C: POLITICAL VIOLENCE
(2:16:21) SECTION D: CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
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| 0:18.6 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left |
| 0:21.5 | podcast. Extremeism comes in many forms. Award-winning Best of Left Podcasts. |
| 0:22.8 | Extremism comes in many forms, |
| 0:25.1 | and we live in an era in which way too many of them |
| 0:27.9 | are on display simultaneously. |
| 0:30.1 | But it's not a coincidence. |
| 0:31.6 | The far right has been working toward an extremist Supreme Court for decades. |
| 0:36.8 | Christian Nationalists have similarly been trying to impose their rigid view of far right |
| 0:40.4 | Christianity on the rest of us for a very long time. |
| 0:43.8 | The Far Right Heritage Foundation now deems this to be the time to attempt to radicalize |
| 0:48.5 | the federal bureaucracy and far right calls for political violence and lax gun laws resulted in an environment |
| 0:56.7 | where no one was really all that surprised about the assassination attempt against |
| 1:01.5 | Donald Trump. Sources providing our top takes in under an hour today include Amicus, Boom Lawered, |
| 1:08.0 | Today Explained, The Read Out, No Lie with Brian Taylor Cohen and the PBS News Hour. |
| 1:15.0 | Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more on the Supreme Court, |
| 1:19.7 | Project 2025, political violence, and Christian nationalism. |
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