It's not the old religious right. And it ends up becoming a bit of a calt of personality, because it's the politician that kind of brings together all these desperate things you've glumbed onto to build out your personal belief system and spirituality. This is more dinstitutionalized. I think it's why these kind of exotic and quite lope ideas kind of mingle with other things that maybe are more recognizable to people as what the religious rite or court social conservatives might have believed in ages past.
Know Your Enemy hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell on terrifyingly protean right-wing American politics.
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