5 Election Takeaways w/Kristen Tideman (#303)

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Over breakfast in San Diego, I sat down with returning guest Kristen Tideman to analyze the 2024 presidential election through fresh eyes. Drawing from a 15-speaker mega-panel Kristen had just attended at the American Academy of Religion conference, we explored several alternative frameworks for understanding the election results. We discussed the concept of "vibes-based voting" using David French's curling analogy, which suggests voter sentiment (like a curling stone) can only be marginally influenced by campaigns. This led us to examine how feelings about the economy, nostalgia, and desire for change played a bigger role than explicit policy positions. We challenged the prevailing white Christian nationalism narrative by looking at immigrant voting patterns, and explored Trump's appeal as an "avatar of hope" for voters frustrated with cultural constraints. In the Patron-only second half, we delved into identity politics, anti-elite sentiment, and potential voting reforms. While more political coverage surely lies ahead, this conversation helped foster greater understanding of how we arrived at these results. Kristen's Company Website | tidycocreative.com Highlights 04:20 The Impact of Politics on Daily Life 09:42 What is “Vibes-Based Voting?” 16:10 Beyond White Christian Nationalism 25:14 Trump as an Avatar of Hope 34:11 The Role of Identity in Politics ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to You Have Permission, everybody, the show that aims to take both Christianity and the modern world of science and culture very seriously.
0:13.2	Kristen Tiedman.
0:14.8	Oh, I'm here again.
0:18.0	This is probably going to come out first, but we already recorded yesterday in our timeline,
0:24.3	an episode with Kristen Myron and Laird that will come out later.
0:28.5	That was fantastic about how psychology has affected our personal faith.
0:34.3	But today we're talking about the election.
0:36.2	And I wanted to bring you back in. Kristen's been on the show many times for new listeners, used to work in a social media capacity, marketing type capacity. Now her own shingle is out there doing her thing at tidy co, tidy co creative. But I'd love having you back any chance I get.
0:54.6	And we've been talking about the election and how we've been processing the election.
1:00.4	And I love, I kind of love the way you think about psychology and religion.
1:05.9	And, you know, we've probably talked less politics just because we have had less reason to talk politics.
1:11.6	But I just, I like getting your take on things. And so we're here at the AAR conference. And so it was a chance to do this in person after some Hawaiian iced coffee.
1:22.7	And you made the healthy choice of an asai bowl. and I had a monster bacon and sausage breakfast burrito.
1:29.3	That's because I had seven tacos yesterday.
1:32.8	Yeah, really making the most of the San Diego location here.
1:37.2	Okay, so the basically way we're going to structure this is you have been thinking about it.
1:42.6	You started getting a bit more involved in political
1:46.0	processes before the election, correct? Yes. Yeah, prior to. And you also went to a really
1:52.2	interesting panel here at the conference. Tell us about that panel. Well, first of all, a mega panel.
1:58.6	Yeah, a mega panel. 15 panelists over two hours. So they were going quick, which was actually fantastic.
2:04.4	They split the 15 into four groups.
2:07.3	So it was three or four per question.
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