The Orange Wave: A History of the Religious Right Since 1960

Episode 5: Putin's Russia: City on a Hill


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Brad explores the alliance between the alt-right and the Religious Right in and through Trump’s presidency. In tracing this story, he uncovers how and why the Religious Right now looks to Putin’s Russia, Orban’s Hungary, and other autocratic regimes as the City Upon a Hill that the USA used to be. This episode features an interview with the renowned journalist Sarah Posner, author of Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump.
Interviewee: 
Sarah Posner is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations. Her investigative reporting has appeared in Rolling Stone, VICE, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, HuffPost, and Talking Points Memo. Her coverage and analysis of politics and religion has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Politico, and many other outlets. She graduated from Wesleyan University and has a law degree from the University of Virginia. Her story “How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream,” published before the 2016 election, won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award.
Suggested Reading: 
Sarah Posner: Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (Penguin Random House 2020
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