It's in the Code Ep 110: “What About His Family”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ The MAGA movement and the radical traditionalist Catholicism the provides one stream or religious legitimation for it aims to preserve the power and authority of White men in America. So many express surprise or confusion when they learn that J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee to Vice President in the 2024 election, is married to an Indian-American woman who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and that his own children are of mixed ethnic heritage. How can that be? How can one of the most prominent spokespersons for the MAGA movement embody such a seemingly obvious contradiction? Check out this week’s episode to hear Dan’s reflections on these questions. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/RC and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi You're going to. As always welcome to the show, a series as part of the podcast straight white
0:34.7	American Jesus and as always I am Dan Miller that part doesn't change
0:40.7	professor of religion and social Thought at Landmark College.
0:43.0	Thrilled to be with you, gone last week, was on vacation.
0:47.0	I was actually in Cancun, first time I've ever been there, so that was fun.
0:52.0	It was also really hot. I did not melt down. I'm basically like a
0:56.0	walking vanilla ice cream cone in the heat and I just sort of disappear over time. So pleased
1:00.9	to have not melted, to have returned to be with you to talk today.
1:06.8	As always, love to hear from folks, Daniel Miller swatch, Daniel Miller
1:10.2	SWAJ at gmail.com feedback comments topics you name it as always typical
1:18.3	caveat that I am late in responding to emails but I am closing the gap, working on it.
1:23.0	But do read the emails and value so many of the insights that you have.
1:28.0	And with that said, I want to dive in today, because I'm responding to, in this was a it was a text that a friend sent me
1:35.6	But it's funny since I got the text I've had other people reach out with the same topic
1:40.6	And I think it'll take us a few minutes. I want to dive in, but it was really, really interesting.
1:45.0	And it's a topic that I think anybody who pays attention, I mean really pays attention,
1:50.0	to the current politics of Christian nationalism and certainly the rhetoric and the dog whistles and everything else of contemporary Christian nationalism
1:57.8	Will have wondered about this
1:59.9	Anybody who has followed our discussion of Project 2025 as a blueprint for a second Trump presidency
2:07.0	will be wondering about this. Anyone who has tracked the mainstream of so-called
2:11.6	replacement theory within the class of right-wing
2:15.0	talking heads will have wondered about this and the topic is J.D. Vance
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