SUPD 955: Who is Mike Johnson and What is Christo Fascism ? Author and Scholar Sarah Posner
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šļø 27 October 2023
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Sarah Posner is the author of UNHOLY: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, And the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind. Her 2008 book, God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, explored the unholy alliance between the Republican Party and prosperity televangelists.
āHer investigative reporting and analysis on the religious right in Republican politics has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Vice, HuffPost, Reveal, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Talking Points Memo, and many other publications. She is a widely cited expert and frequent commentator on religion and politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm recording this on Friday the 27th here, the opening at least the morning |
| 0:09.0 | after the Thursday night hangouts. |
| 0:11.3 | I have so much fun with you guys over 50 of you joined us at the listener subscriber |
| 0:16.1 | S-U-P-D community hangout, happy hour, that's a very long name hangout on Thursday night |
| 0:23.5 | and I always feel very rejuvenated after those with great conversation, thoughtful conversation |
| 0:29.4 | even discussing what seems to be so hard to even discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict, |
| 0:35.3 | the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, however you refer to it but we had all the different |
| 0:40.0 | points of view there last night and nobody seemed to get hurt, everybody seemed to feel |
| 0:44.2 | safe in talking about it and for that I am rejoicing and grateful for this wonderful |
| 0:50.0 | group of people who joined us and we didn't only talk about that and we had lots of laughs |
| 0:54.8 | as we always do, we went for a couple of hours, you're missing that if you're not joining |
| 0:58.8 | us on the hangouts on Thursday night just stop by, turn your camera off, you have to |
| 1:02.6 | say anything, no expectations, it's quite a family, a community-type feeling that we |
| 1:08.4 | have there and I think everybody who wanted to say something got to say something so thank |
| 1:12.9 | you for that, I am grateful for all of you, I've got an excellent guest joining me today, |
| 1:18.6 | it's Sarah Posner back on the program, really nobody I wanted to talk to more than her |
| 1:24.5 | and the other scholars and journalists who have been writing about the march of Christian |
| 1:30.2 | nationalism as some people call it, Christian fascism in this country, evangelical right |
| 1:36.5 | mostly white who want to export and often force their extreme views on us when it comes |
| 1:43.9 | to things like women's reproductive rights and same-sex marriage, separation of church |
| 1:49.2 | and state, you know the whole playbook, you've seen it before, you've seen it your whole |
| 1:53.5 | life probably in this country, but now we have a new speaker of the house, the Republicans |
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