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88: BEST OF: Anne Nelson on the Right Wing Shadow Network

The Al Franken Podcast

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How the Right Wing Has Done This Since the 1960s

"I know the New Testament as well as Donald Trump. Probably better," he says. "He this was a transactional candidate. He really paid the minimal lip service to the religious elements of it ... and they gave him a shopping list that he actually fulfilled." Paul, right, Rick sits in a room with a bunch of Democrats in the 1960s who are coordinating these different groups,. And that seems to be working pretty well for them. So he gets tele evangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson in the room. They're first on the hit list for these people.

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