Christian Nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American,

I'll take you inside the movement.

Listen to Extremely American, from Boise State Public Radio,

part of the NPR Network.

What's good, you're listening to Code Switch, I'm Gene Dembie, and it's summer travel season.

Everybody is outside, hopefully, or they're going on a trip to be outside, albeit further afield.

Maybe that means you're taking a long drive somewhere or catching a flight, but even as we feel liberated from our desks

or our jobs or our regular boring routines, the ways we move to the world as we travel are still freighted with our identities

and the kind of passport we're carrying and the histories of the places we're headed to.

All of which reminds me of a fascinating conversation that my co-host B. A. Parker had last fall here on Co-Twix, so I'm going to just turn it over to her.

So I used to collect travel guides, the used ones that would only cost a buck in the back of my local library, And my mom's house is still filled with all these

guides like Fromer's Guide to Ireland. Lonely planets Botswana and Namibia. the rough guide to Thailand.

I would look at a gorgeous evening photo of Waterloo,

the Buddhist temple in Bangkok, admiring the sunset and it's lit up praying, imagining myself in a rented

sarong stepping into the ordination hall.

And then I go, huh, the steps kind of look like Chichenita.

The pathway kind of looks like the National Mall.

Those books allowed me to see the world, but they also kind of flattened it.

Everything kind of looked like everything else.

And I was inadvertently being taught that I was meant to consume all of these other culture's beauty and that I should be centered in that beauty.

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