Weekly Roundup: Putin, Neo-Nazis, and the American Right

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Brad and Dan begin by discussing the recent AFPAC conference, where the far-right figure Nick Fuentes compared Putin to Hitler in a positive way, while giving a speech full of racial and ethnic slurs. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar attended the conference--and Greene gave an address after being introduced by Fuentes. Dan unpacks the historic significance of this chapter in the GOP's intimacy with what are essentially Neo-Nazi White supremacists, while Brad compares Greene's remarks to the KKK of the 1920s. Interview with Kelly J. Baker: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/PPY9950636314?selected=PPY8028158396 In the second segment, Brad investigates the responses of QAnon adherents and other conspiracists to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He links the polarization and instability in our public square back to Russia's cyber warfare during the 2016 presidential election. The show wraps with reflection on what these issues mean in light of the news that the J6 Select Committee has evidence to prosecute Trump and close allies for various crimes related to January 6th. Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery: https://www.traumaresolutionandrecovery.com/ 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 Produced by Brad Onishi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.5	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad Onishi, faculty at the University
1:31.1	of San Francisco, our show's host and a partnership with the CEP Center, UCSB, and I'm here today
1:35.6	with my co-host. I'm Dan Miller, associate professor of religion and social thought at landmark
1:42.2	college. It's good to see you, Brad. We always talk about this time of the year in the academic
1:46.4	world, being a little exhausting, but I think we're both feeling it right now, so it's nice to
1:52.0	see you and be with a kindred spirit for a few minutes. Yeah, we're definitely... This is the
1:57.2	trudging through part of the academic year. March is a false friend. I always tell the kids February
2:05.0	is mean, but March is that kid who wants to be your friend at lunch, but then turns on you,
2:11.2	and I feel like that's what's going on right now. Hey, Dan, before we jump in,
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