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Pennsylvania lawmaker is a Christian zealot, an academic fraud and an insurrectionist. He's the tip of the iceberg

The driver behind Eastern’s down-to-earth approach to social justice could be called simply “the Campolo effect.” Tony Campolo, a seemingly indefatigable whirlwind of canny idealism, came back to his alma mater in 1964 as a professor of sociology. He was soon appointed chaplain as well. Campolo rallied undergraduates at Eastern—and before long, from across the country—to venture outside their classrooms and into the most economically disadvantaged areas of America’s cities. “What I was able to do was to recognize young men and women who had entrepreneurial gifts, who knew how to...

Adam Crigler used to feed his YouTube following a politics-free diet of chatter about aliens, movies, skateboarding and video games. Then came the pandemic. Now, he devotes much of his talk show to his assertion that mask mandates are an assault on personal freedom and that Democrats somehow stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Result: a much bigger audience. “The pandemic has made more people want to blame someone else because they’ve lost their jobs or they’re lonely,” Crigler said. Ian Bayne, for years a campaign professional, had sworn off politics and launched a career in r...