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Straight White American Jesus

Weekly Roundup: Reviving the Lost Cause - the Real Meaning of Trump's Refusal to Concede + Biden's Religious Voters + SCOTUS and Obama Care

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dan begins by explaining why Biden didn't underperform and why emotionally this should feel like a big win  He and Brad also discuss the White religious voters who fled Trump for Biden and why it is/and is not a big deal  They touch on SCOTUS and the Affordable Care Act, including the surprising comments from Justice Kavanaugh  The bulk of the episode is then spent on discussing the real meaning behind Trump's refusal to concede. Dan explains why a hard coup is not imminent; Brad sets what he calls Trump's "Lost Pause" in the context of the "Lost Cause," the myth and civil religion that emerged from the Confederacy and eventually shaped Southern politics and culture for a century.  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

Welcome to Straightwide American Jesus hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at the University of California Santa Barbara.

0:19.0

My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor, Religious Studies at Skidmore College, and I am here with my co-host.

0:26.0

My name is Dan Miller. I'm Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.

0:30.9

Glad to be here with you, Brad.

0:33.7

It's been another long and eventful week.

0:37.3

It really has.

0:38.4

And it, you know, it felt like Saturday

0:41.0

was this moment of Jubilee, people in the streets, people dancing, people

0:45.1

celebrating and then we just sort of moved into the week here and Trump has refused to concede

0:51.0

and there's been this full-on assault by leading, you know, top Republicans,

0:56.3

senators, Mitch McConnell, Rubio, Cruz, the normal suspects, along with a kind of media

1:01.8

blitz and a very poorly constructed legal

1:04.4

blitz in the courts on the part of Trump to sort of talk about, you know, things

1:09.7

like a stolen election and fraud and all this kind of stuff.

1:13.4

So, you know, it's one of those things where a lot of folks on Twitter Dan

1:16.8

have talked about how even when you are able to excise a malignant

1:20.9

narcissist from your life or an abuser from your life.

1:24.0

They're always trying to haunt you, you know, and they're always trying to sort of come back into your sphere in any way possible.

1:32.0

And that sense of relief is always sort of

1:35.3

Provisional so I think that's where we are now does that make sense to you that does make sense to you?

1:40.7

That does make sense to me.

1:43.0

And I think an overarching thing for me,

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