Trump Doesn't Fit the Perfect Evangelical Mold. That Works to His Advantage

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Host Brian Stelter explores the fracturing of the evangelical church with Tim Alberta, an Atlantic staff writer and author of “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.” Alberta, the son of an evangelical pastor, charts the church’s rightward trajectory and embrace of Donald Trump, who is seen as a champion in an Us vs. Them political showdown. Stelter and Alberta also discuss how a steady diet of outrage on cable news, talk radio, and social media has helped radicalize the flock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	Tim, when we're talking about evangelicals in the United States,
0:52.0	who are we talking about?
0:54.1	So we're talking about tens of millions of people
0:57.0	who self-identify as evangelical,
0:58.8	and more specifically as white conservative evangelical Christians. they're plotted across a pretty vast
1:06.1	spectrum here at the one end you do have the sort of almost bloodthirsty militant MAGA faction that is kind of bent on cultural and
1:17.4	political domination. On the other end you have people who pretty much want nothing to do with politics at all. and you
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