If you’ve been following the transition of the Republican Party from the party of Reagan into whatever the hell it is now you’ll know that the once “useful idiots” of the Republican Party, the Christian Right, now rule the party and they have big plans for Trump 2.0.

As Dr. Taylor points out in our interview about his book The Violent Take it by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening our Democracy, for all the attention January 6th received, a key part of that story has been largely ignored.

Along with bear spray, confederate flags, and combat gear, Christian nationalist iconography was all over the insurrection.

In fact, you might remember watching this motley crew of Trump loyalists anointing their violent take over of our nation’s heart of democracy with a group prayer.

You may also remember the 2023 reporting that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew something called The Appeal to Heaven Flag many of us were introduced to for the first time on January 6th flying at the highest peak of the Alito family flag poll at various points since 2020.

Even worse, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson flies on on his office door right there in Capitol Hill.

And worse yet, our likely Trumpian Defense Secretary is an out and proud Christian Nationalist who, I s**t you not, is a fan of the Crusades. THE CRUSADES.

So what in the hell does it all mean??! What are these religious fanatics planning for the rest of us?

That’s why I’ve brought Matthew D. Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies on for a conversation about the Christian Nationalist movement and what we should expect from them as they ascend to power for the first time in American history.

Don’t miss this conversation because the survival of the separation of church and state depends on it.

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