Axis Mundi. In the late 1970s, religious right and the moral majority held I Love America rallies. These were

political rallies fused with the sensibility of a religious revival.

At the end Falwell would hold an altar call, but it was not for saving souls, but for saving America.

For me, that's a touchstone in modern American religious political history.

It's a moment when Falwell used all the force of his celebrity, along with the cohorts of

Billy Graham and Pat Robertson and others

to fuse a religious movement with a political identity.

Over half a century later, that movement continues.

There's a direct line from Falwell's I Love America tour

to The Courage Tour is targeting votes for Donald Trump and they are incredibly focused,

focused, specific and technologically apt.

Today I talked to Ann Nelson. specific and technologically apt.

Today I talked to Ann Nelson, author and lecturer, a veteran journalist about her new piece at the

Washington Spectator.

She attended a courage to her stop in Michigan and she reports back what she heard, what she found,

and why this is a phenomenon that could swing the 2024 election. Since 2003 and Nelson has been teaching at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

She was a correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala, won the Livingston Award for Best International

Reporting from the Philippines,

and she is the author of Shadow Network, Media, and The Secret Hub of The Radical Right.

It's one of the best books out there, my opinion on the networks, the institutions, the

billionaires who fund the religious right and Christian nationalism in the United States

and the ways they maneuver our political system.

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