The Church and the far right

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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For the first time in decades, there are more autocracies than liberal democracies around the world. Fears about America are growing and if Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House, he pledges to install ideological allies in key positions. Central to Trump’s support is his Christian Evangelical base. The Atlantic writer Tim Alberta’s latest book, The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, examines the nexus between the Church and far-right politics. He saw it up close as a Christian whose father was an Evangelical Minister. He joins Christiane from New York. Also on today's show: CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman reports from Jerusalem on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza; Ronen Bergman, author, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations; New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. A
0:07.6	crescendo of warnings even from Republicans about the dangers of a second
0:11.8	Trump term. The risk of America becoming an illiberal
0:15.0	democracy and even a religious republic. Author Tim Alberta joins me with his new book about
0:20.6	evangelicals and MAGA politics. Next, an apocalyptic situation, UN
0:26.1	officials say, there is no safe place for civilians as Israeli tanks descend
0:30.8	on southern Gaza. New York Times reporter Ronan Bergman tells me
0:34.8	about his exclusive reporting into Israel's intelligence failures before the
0:39.6	October 7th attacks. And how is Houston fighting homelessness?
0:44.6	columnist Nicholas Christoph tells Ari Strenovasam. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and we begin with the
1:12.2	rising threat to our democracies.
1:14.8	For the first time in decades there are more autocracies than liberal democracies around
1:19.8	the world according to a European university that tracks these things.
1:24.0	And fears about America are growing if Donald Trump wins a second term to the White House.
1:29.4	Just six weeks before the Iowa Caucasus,
1:32.0	here's what former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney says.
1:37.0	People who say, well, if he's elected, it's not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances don't fully understand the
1:45.2	extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted.
1:51.6	One of the things that we see happening today is sort of a sleepwalking into
1:58.6	a dictatorship in the United States.
2:02.5	These are startling words indeed.
2:04.6	Not only does Trump face 91 criminal charges,
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