The Radical Catholic Right from Paul Weyrich to JD Vance: Part 2

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In part two of my interview with Dr. Chelsea Ebin, we dig deeper into how radical strains of Catholicism have influenced American politics, particularly through figures like JD Vance and historical activists such as Connie Marschner. Our conversation explores how these groups have long pushed to use government power to enforce conservative Christian values, especially around issues of family and gender. Dr. Ebin and I unpack the strategies that have been deployed over decades to shape societal norms and how these efforts connect to current political movements aiming for a theocratic state. We also discuss the complexities of single-issue voting, diving into how this dynamic plays out among conservative Catholics and Protestants. Dr. Ebin brings great insights into the potential tensions between these groups, despite their shared goals of enforcing a conservative moral vision. It’s a fascinating conversation that highlights the intersection of religion and politics in shaping the landscape of contemporary America. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi You talk about tax policy,
0:14.0	I think it simple, and I'll go back to something I said earlier about
0:17.0	we need to reward the things that we think are good and punish the things that we think are bad.
0:21.0	You talk about tax policy. Let's tax the things that are bad. So you talk about tax policy.
0:23.6	Let's tax the things that are bad
0:25.8	and not tax the things that are good.
0:27.8	If you're making $100,000, $400,000 a year
0:31.4	and you've got three kids, you should pay a different lower tax rate
0:35.0	than if you're making the same amount of money and you don't have any kids.
0:38.0	Vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, saying that we should tax the things that are bad and reward the things that are good.
0:45.0	Last week we talked to Dr. Chelsea Eben about the radical Catholic right and its long history of trying to use the government as a coercive force
0:54.0	to impose its understanding of what is good on everyone.
0:58.0	That understanding of good is of course
1:00.0	cultivated through
1:01.0	a reactionary Catholic vision of society, family, and gender.
1:05.6	J.D. Vance is a continuation of that tradition and today we continue our discussion
1:11.1	with Dr. Eben about this longstanding movement to radicalize
1:16.1	American politics. Not only do we get into contemporary figures like Vance and
1:21.3	Kevin Roberts, but we talk about a little-known figure, a woman
1:24.9	named Connie Marshner, who was Paul Weirix, partner in the movement, and a driving force of the politics around family, gender, and women that set the stage for our contemporary moment.
1:38.0	I'm Brad O'Nishi and this is Straight White American Jesus. I'm not convinced that the sort of current integralist Catholic vision that really seems to be edging towards
2:06.0	communitarianism is not also a form of socialist organization it's just a theocratic socialist organization, right?
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