I'm still trying to understand how the religious right came to embrace everything I was taught that Jesus was against. Ill treatment of others (particularly the needy), violence, and power for power's sake. Sarah Posner covers much of the same ground as Kristin DuMez's Jesus and John Wayne which in turn builds on Kevin Kruse's One Nation Under God. Posner is a reporter and takes a different track than the two historians, looking less at history and including anti-democratic movements in Brazil and Eastern Europe to show how our current political climate is not unique.
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