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Straight White American Jesus

There's Less of Them, But They're More Violent

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Brad speaks with Matthew Sheffield, the editor and publisher of the new media outlet Flux. They discuss his article, "Republicans are banking on a fusion of Trump autocracy and McConnell nihilism, but will it work for them?" One of the arguments Sheffield makes is that the GOP has given up on policy and has become the party of outrage and resentment. Their only play is belligerence via Fox News and other outlets. He then argues that it's been hard to ramp up this outrage machine during the Biden presidency because Biden is a boring grandpa who is as old or older than most Trump voters; a president who largely stays out of view; and one on whom they can't use racist and xenophobic tacts like they do with other politicians. Finally, he argues that the GOP and the White Christian fundamentalists who anchor it are losing power and numbers, but becoming more violent. Leading to the question of our time: Can our democracy survive the autocracy and nihilism they are turning to in order to remain at the top of the political and social hierarchies? 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.

0:22.0

Welcome to Straight Wide American Jesus.

0:24.0

As we announced last week, we are doing our first ever Straight Wide American Jesus seminar.

0:29.0

And I know some of you are like, what does that mean?

0:31.0

So basically it's this. In September, Dan Miller is going to be teaching what is basically like a college level seminar.

0:39.0

And it's open to all of you.

0:41.0

What's included in the seminar are four live sessions.

0:45.0

And there are going to be two hours each.

0:47.0

So they're going to be on Wednesday nights in September, two hours in a live session with Dan and the other participants in the course.

0:55.0

It also includes five exclusive course videos that participants will be asked to watch before the class each week and readings from both Dan and I on the select topic.

1:07.0

I'll be making appearances in some of the videos and other materials, but Dan will be really leading up the seminar and it is limited to 12 people.

1:15.0

Dan, I'm pretty excited about this.

1:17.0

Not only because it's our first seminar, but because I know you're an amazing teacher and whoever signs up is going to have a great experience.

1:25.0

I think we've both been really excited about this for a long time.

1:27.0

We talked about this last week, but people have...

1:30.0

There are people who have wanted to do sort of a deeper dive, something a little bit more formal than what we can do in the podcast.

1:36.0

We say it's like a college class without all the bad stuff. I don't have to grade anything.

1:40.0

That's what we don't like.

1:42.0

Nobody has to do any homework. Nobody's there because their advisor said that they have to take it. It's just people who want to take it.

1:49.0

I'm really looking forward to it. I'm really looking forward to the other piece of this is that the participants also...

1:55.0

Part of this is what we're calling office hours where each individual will get to just meet with me if they want for half an hour.

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