Unholy
How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind
New York : Random House, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.
Description: xviii, 351 pages ; 21 cm
"In this taut inquiry into the seemingly confounding alliance between Donald Trump and the evangelicals, Posner peels back layers of the religious right's radical history to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement's core. United in a narrative of victimization, the religious right and the alt-right came together to champion Trump's erosion of democratic norms by rolling back civil rights advances, stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right judges, defanging and deregulating federal agencies, and undermining the credibility of the free press. In Unholy, Posner deconstructs the myriad ways in which these two groups became not-so-strange bedfellows, and shows how this union is fueled by antidemocratic impulses worldwide. Revelatory and engrossing, Unholy offers a deeper understanding of the ideological underpinnings and forces influencing the course of Republican politics today."-- Back cover
Contents:
The blueprint for an assault on civil rights -- God's strongman -- Race rules -- The alt-right out in the open -- The origin myths of the Christian right -- The new right and racism -- The civil rights era is over -- The end of American exceptionalism -- The undrained swamp loves an autocrat -- The assault on reality -- Epilogue: And God will smite the impeachers -- Afterword: Signs of the times.
Subjects:
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence.
Religious right -- United States -- History.
Christianity and politics -- United States.
Christians -- Political activity -- United States.
Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
White supremacy movements -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence.
Religious right -- United States -- History.
Christianity and politics -- United States.
Christians -- Political activity -- United States.
Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
White supremacy movements -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN:
1984820443
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
RELIGION Society Pos | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/30/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references and index.