The Rise of the Illiberals

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Where is the GOP headed four months after an attempted coup? Even further down the rabbit hole of authoritarianism. In the wake of his jarring interview with Dr. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on fascism in rural America, Brad shows that these anti-democratic impulses are not limited to fringe pockets of the country. They are at the heart of the contemporary conservative movement and GOP. This portends even more anti-democratic maneuvers, threats of violence, and repeats of the 1/6 coup attempt, even as Trump fades from public consciousness as time goes on. He may be on his way out, but the trendy fascism he instituted in our public square is not. 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/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an irreverent podcast.
0:03.7	Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.
0:21.8	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:23.9	My name is Brad Oñishi, Faculty and Religion, Skidmore and College.
0:27.5	Our show is hosted in partnership with the Cap Center.
0:30.7	UCSB.
0:32.7	Today I want to talk about a liberalism, which may not sound like a very sexy word,
0:37.9	but it follows up on my interview with Dr. Sarah Ricardi Swartz from earlier this week.
0:44.5	And in that interview, Dr. Ricardi Swartz shared her research on a community in rural Appalachia,
0:52.4	a Russian Orthodox community populated by many ex-Evangelicals.
0:58.3	And they have an alarming set of politics.
1:02.1	You know, one woman in the interview said to Sarah that she says,
1:07.1	I'm a fascist, right?
1:08.5	And so it was this incredibly jarring text that she wrote, Sarah,
1:14.5	and her article really was in many ways a gut punch.
1:18.8	What I want to talk about today briefly is just how it may seem like that's an outlier
1:23.5	and that that is a sort of extreme fringe example.
1:31.0	But I don't think it is.
1:32.2	And I think it's actually something that indicates where the Republican party
1:38.0	and work the conservative movement in this country is at this moment.
1:43.0	And especially in the wake of January 6th.
1:46.8	This morning, the sociologist of religion at Yale, Philip Gorsky tweeted
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