see this as a new religion. yes. christian nationalism. it s christian nationalism, and there s a point at which christian nationalism departs so much from the tenants of traditional evangelicals that it just becomes on the fate. and not to invoke the name of your storied place of work, but it is vice signaling, as the new york times puts it, rather than virtue signaling, that the rage is the homily, if you will. and that this isn t a temporary thing that is necessarily a phenomenon of the trump era, but it is awakened in the heart of america. something much darker, tess, a rage, and in anger, and a grievance that s going to be very hard to put back in the bottle, if you will. i also think there s a danger of christian nationalism, they re not just doing trump s bidding, they feel like they re doing god s bidding, that they have this higher authority or justification going forward for
2020 election. it sounds like anyone who s a national reporter is gonna spend more time here this time around as well. can we talk about how, there are some interesting dynamics. is white working class voters and urban black voters. and president biden is making concerted outreach to both groups. talk to me about how this he calibrates the message for a state as large and diverse as pennsylvania. you ve seen in the message the scene for a long time from the president, really, going back to his first campaign, what he is talking about the threat to our democracy. i think the reason we see the president honing in there is because this next election is literally about whether we have elections in the united states. if we don t have a functioning democracy, one where folks can show up to vote, pick their elected officials, and then ensure that those elected officials are working on the priorities that matter to them,
right, so there s a guy in iowa named bob vander plaats, who is the head of this group called the family leader, who, until this year, was really seen as this kingmaker. he had this incredibly powerful evangelical machine, and again and again and again, the people he endorsed won the iowa caucuses. they didn t necessarily go on to win the presidency, but rick santorum, mike huckabee, ted cruz, i believe he endorsed george w. bush, after double check that. you see this again, and again, and again. he, the person he s endorsed this time, is is fighting, fighting for a very distant second. ron desantis. i think what you ve seen is just as donald trump has destroyed the rights faith in institutions they ve traditionally revered, like the fbi, or the military, he has also destroyed their faith in a lot of traditional evangelical leaders.
slow. cadence afraid of offending too many maga or maga adjacent voters or certainly of trump himself. this is the question. this becomes a two man race, if this becomes a two man race, or two person race, what is your expectation for her appetite to actually speak truth to trump? that is the question. she s capable of taking on big fights. her history in south carolina shows that she will reply hard, she will fight back, she will throw. but she hasn t done with trump. her wrap on trump has been passive. rightly or rock the chaos follows him. rightly or wrongly she won t judge in the chaos follows him he has nothing to do with january 6th or the 91 counts against him. it just sort of passively follows wherever donald trump goes. at some point she s gonna have to use the material she has to work with, which is quite plentiful. but ultimately you have to wonder, is she fighting for positioning herself, fighting the good fight for 2020, eight or to be trump s vice president? it s quite
to use the example of those who have crossed him as a warning to wavering lawmakers, to anyone who risked resists the force. i believe that jamele point this out in his column. you saw after, the reason donald trump is now the front-runner for the republican nomination is because the republicans and in the senate, after january six, many of them knew that he had fomented insurrection, and should be impeached. according to mitt romney, at least some of them didn t vote to impeach because, unlike him, they did not have the money to pay for their own personal security. and it comes to that simple fact of, if you can withstand the terror, fear, if you have the resources are the backbone, maybe it ll stand up against him. but most people don t. the net effect on the justice system, i think, tests, could be profound, as you look at all these judges who are facing these direct threats from the plaintive. the threats against, and