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Straight White American Jesus

The Orange Wave, Ep. 5: Putin's Russia: City on a Hill

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Brad explores the alliance between the alt-right and the Religious Right in and through Trump's presidency. In tracing this story, he uncovers how and why the Religious Right now looks to Putin's Russia, Orban's Hungary, and other autocratic regimes as the City Upon a Hill that the USA used to be. This episode features an interview with the renowned journalist Sarah Posner, author of Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, 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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In 2014, I moved to Memphis, Tennessee in order to teach at Rhodes College.

0:59.0

Coming to the bluff city gave me the chance to connect for the first time with family

1:02.3

and my mother's side.

1:04.2

She was born in Portageville, Missouri, about 90 minutes northwest of Memphis, in the region,

1:09.4

where Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri triangulate.

1:14.0

It was enlightening and affirming to see the place her and my grandmother spoke about so

1:18.6

often throughout my childhood.

1:22.1

Every time I met a new person in Portageville, my first thought was their accent sounds

1:27.0

exactly like grandma's.

1:29.8

About two years later, in 2017, I drove in the opposite direction, southwest of Memphis,

1:35.4

along the eastern border of Arkansas.

1:38.6

Three hours after leaving the bluff city, I arrived in Megahee, Arkansas, in order to

1:42.8

visit the sites of the two easternmost Japanese internment camps, Roar and Jerome.

1:49.2

In 1942, FDR issued executive order 9066, which led to the forced removal of 120,000

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