#87 - James Talarico
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with Megan Basham about James Talarico, the left’s effort to rebrand itself as the real Christianity, abortion, gender ideology, David French, Christianity Today, and why false teaching in politics is confusing too many believers. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and a gentle to people, as somebody on a Bugs Bunny once said, I now have the joy on this program today of speaking with our friend Megan Basham, who's right here. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello, Megan. |
| 0:13.2 | Hey, good to be here. |
| 0:14.3 | Always good to be here. |
| 0:20.0 | It's always good to talk to you. |
| 0:23.5 | It's encouraging to me today. |
| 0:26.3 | We can talk about anything, |
| 0:27.2 | but maybe we should deal with the particular lunacy, |
| 0:32.6 | and that's putting it as positively as I can, |
| 0:35.8 | of James Talariko. |
| 0:39.0 | So folks who are listening, who don't even know who that is. Can you tell my audience who this fake Christian James Telerico is? |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah. So, you know, as I've been covering a lot of the cultural aspects of politics over at the |
| 0:49.6 | Daily Wire, one of the things I've noticed as we're shifting to the new, you know, midterms election, |
| 0:56.5 | is that in 2024, Christian nationalism was the big scare, right? |
| 1:01.4 | I mean, everyone's terrified of Christians living out their faith and actually feeling like |
| 1:05.9 | they have to be salt and light in the world and live out that commandment. |
| 1:09.5 | So, you know, the left had been |
| 1:10.9 | strongly attacking Christians doing that because for obvious reasons, they don't want the salt |
| 1:15.3 | and the light. And so what I have seen probably over the last year around Tala Rico is a little |
| 1:22.5 | bit of a shift. They're still hitting Christian nationalism. And he in particular, as the Texas Senate candidate for |
| 1:29.8 | the Democratic Party, is hitting that a lot. But they're also now trying to say that actually |
| 1:35.9 | we're the real Christians, though. So instead of taking a hostile stance to Christianity, |
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