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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Our book today in the Tom Hartman book club is preparing for war.

The subtitle of the extremist history of white Christian nationalism and what comes next

by Bradley Onishi. This is from the prologue.

Processing the capital insurrection is akin to coming to terms with the national home invasion.

That violent mobs breach of a secure and sacred space on January 6, 2021 resulted in nothing

less than a collective trauma. Decades of threats calls for civil war and white grievance,

politics burst forth into a vulgar display of vengeance. It was a day that divides time into before

and after. It was dismantling. But as time has passed, it has become clear that January 6 was not

an aberration, or even some historically bewildering event. It was the logical outcome,

not only of the Trump presidency and election defeat, but also of the long history of white

Christian nationalist rhetoric, organizing, and influence across the United States.

This book is partly a religious history of the events at the capital on January 6, 2021,

but it is mainly a history of the events, movements, religious leaders, and religious communities

that made that possible. It is also a history of my own involvement in those communities' movements.

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