core of the idea expressed to Mr Alito that the country must fight the decline of Christianity

in public life goes beyond the questions of bias and influence of the nation's highest court.

An array of conservatives including anti-abortion activists, church leaders, and

conservative state legislators has openly embraced the idea that American

democracy needs to be grounded in Christian values and guarded against the

rise of secular culture.

They are right-wing Catholics and evangelicals who oppose abortion, same-sex marriage,

transgender rights, and what they see is the dominance of liberal views in school curriculums.

And they become a crucial segment

of former President Trump's political coalition

intermingled with the MAGA movement

that boosted him to the White House

and that hopes to do so once again in November.

The only thing I'd add to that perfect

articulation of where we are is and they're going to decide whether or not

Donald Trump has quote absolute immunity in the criminal cases and charges against him.

Well, this idea of returning America to a place of, quote,

Godliness, this is not language that I think many Americans might be familiar with or thinking would be a legal principle, right?

So it's indicative of the entirely new moment that this country is in especially since the overturning of

row in our book the fall of row the subtitle is the rise of a new America and it

gets at these questions about what is this conservative Christian movement that was so powerful

that so many people didn't see that led to the overturning of row where are they

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