White Supremacy, Tulsa, and the Mythology of America

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Virginia Heffernan talks to author Jared Yates Sexton about evangelical mythology, Bill Barr, rural understandings of globalism, the Confederacy, the coming Trump rally in Tulsa, how some Christian Trumpists may view COVID, and the “cult of the shining city.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	I don't think he's fit for office.
0:31.6	I don't think he has the confidence to carry out the job.
0:34.6	There really isn't any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what's
0:40.3	good for Donald Trump's reelection.
0:44.6	When it concerns me most in addition to the fact of course that he further demonstrates
0:49.1	the quid pro quo, the president coercing Ukraine by withholding this military assistance,
0:54.7	it is the fact that it was part of a pattern.
0:57.9	Let me say to all of our great docker kids and their families, this is just the beginning.
1:08.2	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
1:09.2	I'm Virginia Heffernan.
1:10.9	It is hot where I am and it's supposed to be nearly 90 degrees and humid and diseased
1:17.2	in Tulsa, Oklahoma this weekend where coronavirus cases are soaring as is enthusiasm for Trump's
1:24.3	exciting rally Saturday night.
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