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Politics of Fear: No contradiction in Evangelical support for Trump

John Fea is a professor of American History at Pennsylvania’s Messiah College and the author of this summer’s ‘Believe Me: the Evangelical Road to Trump’, a discerning, critical take on current American politics.
August 31 2018
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On this episode, Fea joins host Andre Goulet to explore how support for Donald Trump is the logical outcome of a long-standing evangelical approach to public life defined by the politics of fear, the pursuit of worldly power, and a nostalgic longing for an American past.

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