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Episode 519: How Reaganism Won the Church & Skye’s New Book

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Regan's New American Creed

Regan used state's rights language to appeal to southerners and racial conservatives. He was a staunch anti communist, and he promoted strength as the way to deal with the soviet union. Regan succeeded by pulling together all these different motives in one block from florida to california that was later christened the sun belt. And this started to create sort of a new american creed. Big government is bad, freedom is good. Christianity brings morality and blessing as god. The bible Christians must fight for a thousand years or we will head into darkness. That's what we've been doing since 19 64. Or donald jeremy fallwell might have kicked j

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