You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about Tuesday's elections. What do they mean for the so-called vibe shift that we've been witnessing?

We're also going to talk about new attention from the Trump administration on the violence against Christians in Nigeria.

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week. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview,

I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street. John, there was a little bit of an election this week.

And we've talked before about, in some cases, what we hope is a vibe shift culturally

on a lot of political issues and pre-political issues. But this week, as you know, many, many

Democrats won in some surprising ways. So the most high profile of these might be the new mayor

of New York City's or on Mamdani, who describes himself as a democratic socialist and is Muslim.

We also have big Democratic winners in New Jersey and Virginia and not to get into all the politics of this, but does this signal something culturally for you?

You know, I think it signals less politically than we're hearing.

And I think it's because, you know, you're talking about New York, New Jersey, and even Virginia, which has really been back and forth.

And I've been a little bit surprised, you know, by that, that when some Sears did not win.

I'm a fan also as a native virginian it's interesting

too that the vast majority of white voters in virginia voted for a a black woman even though she did not

win that's an interesting challenge to uh the attempt to racialize the narrative of the United States in ways that has been

pretty common over the last decade or really couple decades, but really a part of the

critical theory mood that were kind of, it seems like there's some, you know, more pushback

on. There's just explanations of the political realities, you know,

that point to these kind of cultural or ideological frameworks. And they just have proven to be

inadequate. So all these things, I think, are interesting things to talk about. But, you know,

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