SPECIAL EPISODE: Justice Alito Let's His Appeal to Heaven Flag Fly

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Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In light of the news that Justice Alito flies an Appeal to Heaven flag over his beach house, Brad speaks to four experts on what it means and why it's a truly significant moment in the life of SCOTUS. Dr. Matthew Taylor, author of the Violent Take It By Force: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506497785/The-Violent-Take-It-by-Force Annika Brockschmidt, journalist, author: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Annika-Brockschmidt/author/B06XH8QPWM?ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Andrew Seidel, constitutional lawyer and author of American Crusade: https://www.unionsquareandco.com/9781454943921/american-crusade-by-andrew-l-seidel/ Rev. Angela Denker, writer and pastor - author of Red State Christians: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506482507/Red-State-Christians Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get full access to this episode, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi. Flying the appeal to heaven flag is sort of like a secret handshake for Christian nationalists.
0:20.8	It's a way for one Christian nationalist to recognize another for a public
0:26.8	official who is a Christian nationalist to publicly declare their affiliation, their faith in the Christian nationalist movement,
0:36.0	but doing so in a way that gives them plausible deniability.
0:40.0	By now you've heard that Samuel Lido was flying an appeal to heaven flag outside of his summer residence.
0:47.0	This coming in the wake of news that he, or at least he claims his wife, flew an upside-down American flag and a feud with neighbors outside their main residents.
0:55.8	Last night on MS NBC, Chris Hayes provided context on why this is such a big deal with an assist from none other than yours truly.
1:04.0	He's got the flag in his Google Street View folks.
1:07.0	That right there is the Google image from the August of 2023.
1:11.0	Okay, so the appeal to heaven flag
1:14.6	recently gained some notoriety
1:16.4	because it also hangs out the office of the speaker
1:18.4	of the house Mike Johnson.
1:19.4	You see it there on the right.
1:20.9	Now, it's been around since revolutionary times but over the past decade
1:24.3	or so specifically it has grown closely associated with the Christian nationalist
1:29.0	movement including is the title of a book by a guy named Dutch Sheets.
1:34.0	He's a Trump supporter, an election denier,
1:36.5	and one of the most influential Christian nationalists in the country.
1:39.5	As one former Christian nationalists told PBS early this year, he helped turn the flag into
1:44.8	a rallying symbol among right-wing groups in this country.
1:49.7	The appeal to heaven flag goes back to the Revolutionary War, George Washington, it was inspired
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