After January 6th, I could not fathom how Trump still had the support of Christians. How could people who valued our country be ok when their hero launched a coup attempting to take it over by spreading lies about a fraudulent election?
That was until I read Katherine Stewart’s book “The Power Worshippers” and realized the political strategy at play to retain power at all costs—even at the cost of democracy.
I was naive to think that democracy was a driving value to Christian nationalists when they demonstrated that power was more important again and again.
In this episode, Katherine talks to us after years and years of investigative reporting and attending Christian nationalist events about the lengths Christian nationalists leaders will go to retain power.
Get her book, THE POWER WORSHIPPERS: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, for a rare look inside the machinery of the movement that brought Donald Trump to power.