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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler cover image

The Death of American Democracy?

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

CHAPTER

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

The modern religious right focused on registering voters to vote, mobilizing them to go to the polls. They sort of claimed that there was this majority of conservative Christians who really hadn't been voting. And then over time, it became pretty clear that even when they voted, they couldn't win elections because their views are pretty unpopular. So has Donald Trump radicalized both the Republican Party and the Christian right? I think there were multiple factors contributing to the escalation towards what we saw on January 6, and it's aftermath.

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