Green: I write about religion and politics mostly.
Julia Longoria: Emma Green is a staff writer at The Atlantic. ( A soft indicator sound, like the “Fasten seat belt” notification on an airplane, intones one note over the quiet hum of recycled air.)Įmma Green: I’ve been thinking a lot about the way that little actions by a single character really do have the power to change history. Pictures, Access Hollywood, C-SPAN, UCLA’s communications-studies department, and The 700 Club.Ī transcript of this episode is presented below: Additional music by Lorne David Roderick Balfe (“Petrify (b)”).
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Music by Parish Council (“ Looking for Tom Putt,” “ Leaving the TV on at Night,” “ Mopping”), Ob (“ Ere”), Keyboard (“ Staying In”), R McCarthy (“ Big Game”), H Hunt (“ Journeys”), and Infinite Bisous (“ Brain”) provided by Tasty Morsels. Editing by Julia Longoria, Tracie Hunte, and Emily Botein. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at episode was produced by Katherine Wells and Alvin Melathe, with reporting by Emma Green. Then join us next week for Part 2, when we’ll look at the human cost of political victory-a cost that might ultimately be very high.įurther reading: “A Christian Insurrection”īe part of The Experiment. This week on The Experiment, we have the first episode in a two-part series: Meet the man who turned a disparate group of evangelicals into America’s most powerful voting bloc and invented the evangelical political brand. Many, many Christians have come to feel that their church cares more about politics than Jesus. Trump’s election was everything Reed spent his entire career fighting for: a president who was anti–abortion rights, listened to evangelical leaders, and advocated for Christians who felt pushed out of the public square. Decades later, when Donald Trump came on the political scene, Reed knew he would be big-and convinced his fellow evangelicals that they should give him a shot. One man-a political operative from Georgia named Ralph Reed-devised a plan to harness the energy of young Christians and turn them into America’s most powerful voting bloc, one church mailing list at a time.
The powerful alliance culminated in the 2016 election of Donald Trump, tying the reputation of Christianity in America to the Trump brand-maybe permanently. These days, everyone assumes that this is just a fact of life: Evangelicals are Republicans, and Republicans are evangelicals.
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