Signposts: “Too Dumb to Fail: A Conversation with Matt K. Lewis On Election 2016”

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🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The 2016 presidential election cycle has been a bizarre and at times infuriating spectacle. Particularly for conservatives, it feels like this election has featured at least as much of the vulgar showmanship of reality TV as a principled conservative worldview. How did we ever get to this point? In this episode of Signposts I talk to Matt K. Lewis, author of the new book Too Dumb to Fail. Lewis discusses why conservative political discourse has sunk to the lows we see now, and what we can do about it. Use the links below to listen, and subscribe to get new episodes of Signposts automatically when they publish. The post Signposts: “Too Dumb to Fail: A Conversation with Matt K. Lewis On Election 2016” appeared first on Russell Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.1	slash select today. Hello, this is Russell Moore, and you're listening to Signpost. Everyone was expecting
1:01.4	2016 to be a dynasty election a year or so ago.
1:06.0	The Bush Dynasty versus the Clinton Dynasty, but the last week or so, another sort of dynasty came into view. One of my colleagues came up to me and said
1:15.7	have you heard the news that the Duck Dynasty is fractured because the patriarch of
1:22.3	the family has endorsed Ted Cruz and Willie Robertson in the family has
1:27.6	endorsed Donald Trump.
1:29.8	And I just said, well, who knows how this will resolve it suppose we have to wait for next
1:33.9	week's episode and it certainly seems as though this year's election really on
1:39.9	both sides has turned into a kind of a reality television show of its own.
1:46.1	Well there's a new book out, brand new book that looks at this particularly on the Republican
1:51.2	side but I think it applies to broader things going on within the culture and even within the church.
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