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Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…ve earned the culture warrior label for their strident pronouncements—Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, or Mike Huckabee—are seen as embarrassing embodiments of stereotypes these conservative Christians would like to shed. Instead, they are looking at a candidate like Walker, or even Jeb Bush (a Catholic), who is personally religious and, crucially, “gets” evangelical culture. Bush’s Right to Rise PAC recently signed Jordan Sekulow, executive director of t…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…n fact, that’s exactly what has to happen. What I said in 2015 still holds today, I think: Religious advocates for gun control are caught on the horns of a dilemma, then. They can live their values and not get involved in the dirty business of politics, in which case the slaughter continues. Or they can come off the sidelines and start to organize effectively, which challenges the cherished belief that faith-based action can somehow rise above mer…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…most want to be like right now. She’s a model for liberals in the age of Trump. It’s true that her critique of Linus’s delusion sometimes crosses the line into bullying. But she acts with love toward him throughout the show. No one else does. In the very first scene, Lucy and Linus go out together to pick a pumpkin from the patch to bring home. Later, while trick-or-treating, she asks for extra candy she can give him. She checks his bedroom at 4…

Sheldon Adelson’s Long Game

By Sarah Posner

…ed not just at influencing the outcome of the election, but probably more crucially on influencing conversation about Israel. Adelson can read a poll just as easily as anyone else. Or last year’s Pew Research Center survey on American Jewish attitudes. His money isn’t about 2016 or even 2020 or 2024, it’s about staving off the shifting views of American Jews about Israel, or at least constraining political dialogue about it. Citizens United enable…

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…t going to be Trump’s hate-filled America” might have been its most important religious statement. Warren—a Methodist like Hillary Clinton—may not have name-checked God or cited scripture in her speech, but she did mention religious bigotry several times among Donald Trump’s other sins. I at least see an implied theology in her statement that refuses “the politics of fear and division” in favor of being a reconciled, if not exactly united, nation….

Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…here I come from there are some choice words we have for people like Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush, who exploit their ties to Latinos/as when it’s politically useful and run and hide when it is not. Not until Trump insulted Bush’s Mexican-American wife, Columba, was there any hint of outrage. The party of “God, Guns and Gravy” seems to have misplaced its cojones. Spectacle becomes virtuous because of what it lays bear. Trump’s spectacle abol…

Naming White Supremacy’s Fears in A Third Reconstruction

By Serene Jones

…a sharpness of intellect when it comes to history, and this very practical politics. He always has very specific things to say about the kind of policy changes we need to be pursuing. The movement he’s building never lets you drift off into an amorphous idealism. Here we are, almost 150 years after the end of slavery, and what we see again and again is progressive change soon followed by reactionary backlash. The cultural aspect of the 200 years o…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…any named gifts to the people of Utah have included a world-class cancer research institute. In Utah, Jon Huntsman, Jr., benefitted tremendously from the family name. And as governor, he implemented a pragmatic, pro-business agenda in a Mormon culture that (despite its reputation as the reddest of the red—thank you, Cleon Skousen and Glenn Beck) tends to be pragmatic and pro-business on just about everything except gay marriage. But national polit…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…oral consciousness of society (again, as they define moral consciousness): running institutions, clinics, social services and the like, preaching and spreading its idea of Islam, without getting too tangled up in politics. At the same time, the political leader who comes to power in Egypt will likely be personally religious, proud to identify as an Egyptian, an Arab, and a Muslim. Because Egypt never went through the radical secularization that Tu…

Dems’ “Great Satan” Strategy Falls Apart Right From Start

By Peter Laarman

…e talking seriously at the Hollywood Bowl about our dread and loathing of Trump and Trumpism. As we walked out of the performance, we joked that one of us might have to play Tosca to Trump’s Scarpia and plunge a metaphorical dagger into his shriveled little heart in order to save America (we had just heard the LA Phil’s concert version of Puccini’s masterwork). My friend, who is Jewish, is someone who could not bring herself to read Philip Roth’s…