Inside the Movement to Dismantle Democracy in God’s Name

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Katherine Stewart, author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, explains how America’s Christian nationalist forces are exporting extremism abroad while cloaking domestic corruption in the guise of faith. Plus a suicide bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic introduces the public to the dark ideology of “efilism”. Plus, Then, another look at the Yale professors fleeing to Toronto: their self-congratulatory tone is punctured by Sarah Longwell and Ben Wittes, who argue that true anti-fascist courage means staying and fighting. Produced by Corey WaraEmail us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.
0:04.0	When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade.
0:08.0	Replaced by a feeling of euphoria.
0:12.0	It's why you lace up at dawn.
0:15.0	Why little rain doesn't stop you.
0:17.0	Why one run turns into a habit.
0:20.0	So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high. why one run turns into a habit.
0:24.3	So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high.
0:28.1	Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com.
0:32.0	Hi, it's Mike with a major announcement.
0:33.5	It is not about the gist.
0:36.4	It is about something called The Gist List.
0:42.4	So let me tell you, every day I construct the show by reading and listening and imbibing a tremendous amount of information.
0:46.0	A lot of it doesn't make it onto the show, of course.
0:47.2	So what do we do with that?
0:51.0	What do we do with the effluvia, the Jetsam, the Sods, but also the odds?
0:53.0	Enter the GIST list.
0:56.9	Every day on Substack, I will be compiling the most interesting, important, maybe unfairly ignored stories that I look at and say there's something
1:02.4	there. You know, we must nurture that which is interesting in this world. Some of these stories
1:07.6	do end up as segments. They all start off as ideas.
1:12.3	We need ideas.
1:17.3	The Gist List is designed to interest you, definitely not to waste your time, to make you smarter,
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