How They Did It, Pt. 2: The Christian Right and Roe

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam dig into the origins of the Christian right, their eventual embrace of anti-abortion politics, and how they joined forces with the GOP.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome listeners to episode 57 of Know Your Enemy.
0:04.3	I'm Matt Sitman, your podcast co-host, and I'm here with my great friend, Sam Eller Bell.
0:08.8	Hello, Matt.
0:09.8	We're going to keep this intro short because we do a fair amount of scene setting at the
0:13.5	start of this episode, which is about the religious right and Rovius' weight.
0:18.2	That's right.
0:19.2	This is the second part of what will be three episodes on this topic.
0:24.0	So our last time we did the federal society and the conservative legal movement, today
0:28.3	we were focusing really on the rise of the Christian right, and then the third episode
0:32.4	will close the story out, basically, with the end of the story from the 90s to the Trump
0:36.7	era.
0:37.7	Yes.
0:38.7	We did a lot of reading for this, really geeked out about it, and it's a fascinating and
0:41.9	rich history that we don't want to spoil too much of, that we get some housekeeping items
0:46.4	then, Sam?
0:47.4	Yeah.
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