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God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta

2023/12/14
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The episode introduces Tim Alberta and his book about the evangelical church's influence on American politics, highlighting his personal connection and the church's role in supporting Trump.

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Tim Alberta is a fantastic reporter whose profiles of 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley and former CNN boss Chris Licht proved illuminating and impactful (Licht lost his job days after). In his latest book, Alberta has profiled not a person but a movement: the evangelical church. It’s a community that rallied around Donald Trump in 2016, 2020 and will likely do so in 2024. And it’s one Alberta knows well: his father was an evangelical pastor. Alberta’s new book, “The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism”) takes him back to his hometown church to understand how the evangelical church has reshaped American politics.

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