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Paula White: Let us pray,
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because God
is gonna be in today.
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Let we the people
have the assurance
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of a fair and a just election.
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Hear our cry
and turn our hearts to you.
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Donald Trump: Nobody knows
what the hell is going on.
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There's never been
anything like this.
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We will not let them
silence your voices.
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We're not gonna let it happen.
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Christ for Trump!
Christ for Trump!
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Donald Trump:
Not gonna let it happen.
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Christ for Trump!
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Elizabeth Neumann:
Faith is primary for me.
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Faith is the first thing
that I build my life around.
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My reaction to January 6th was--
my stomach churned.
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I was nauseous.
I wanted to throw up.
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People had Christian flags,
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they were praying on bullhorns
outside the Capitol
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while beatings were occurring
inside the Capitol.
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It was a co-opting of my faith
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that is supposed to be
a faith of peace.
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From a security standpoint,
it was also devastating.
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We spent 20 years preparing
for another bad day,
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building up intel systems,
law enforcement capabilities,
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the protective measures,
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and that failure
was utterly on display.
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- Thank you, Heavenly Father!
- Amen.
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Thank you for allowing
the United States of America
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to be reborn and get rid of
the communists, the globalists,
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and the traitors
within our government.
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Treason! Treason! Treason!
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The galvanizing force behind
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the assault on the U.S. Capitol
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was a political movement
known as Christian nationalism.
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Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is...
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The leaders had
a long range plan
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to seize power and impose
their political vision
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by any means necessary.
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They knew that
the only way to create
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a theocratic Christian nation
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was to overthrow our democracy,
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and that's what
they set out to do.
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We love you, and we thank you.
In Christ's holy name we pray.
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Amen!
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William Billings:
When government is in the hands
of Godly men, it is good.
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but in the hands
of all others, it is evil.
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What we're talking about here
is spreading the Gospel
in political context.
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Make no mistake about it.
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We are talking about
Christianizing America.
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I'm sick and tired of hearing
about all of the perverts
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and the liberals
and the leftists
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and the communists coming out
of the closet!
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It's time for God's people
to come out of the closet,
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out of the churches,
and change America!
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We are at war,
you have to choose sides,
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and you have to
get in the fight.
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I am a Christian nationalist.
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Give me the flag, and I'll
carry it all the way to Calvary.
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We're gonna have
a new country.
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It's gonna be
a Christian nation.
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Fuck democracy.
I stand with Jesus Christ.
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Alex Jones: They are tearing
down the wall at the border,
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and building a wall around
the United States Capitol.
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America First. MAGA-nificent.
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Tucker Carlson: How precisely
is diversity our strength?
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Do you get along better
with your neighbors
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if you can't understand
each other?
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Patriot Church
in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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God always comes first,
but country is a close second.
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Ken Peters:
Do I have any soldiers
in the house this morning?
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If you're not a soldier,
hang out here.
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You'll end up a soldier.
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So I was there
in the Capitol incident
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that happened in D.C.
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There were some people there
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that were breaking windows
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and climbing walls
and being destructive.
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That's not what Christians do.
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But what I was determined
to do is to stand.
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We have a right in this country
to stand at that Capitol
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and let our voices be heard.
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And by the way, that's all
our president asked us to do.
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Yeah.
- Is to let our voices be heard.
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- Yes, yes.
- Our forefathers built this
country upon Christianity
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and for Christians,
and said that
if we ever left that,
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the constitution wouldn't work,
and we're seeing that today.
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People wanna come here
because we founded this country
on Christian principles.
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They work.
So let's stick with them.
They've been good to us.
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The church has relinquished
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too much authority
to government.
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We should not be taking orders
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by the government,
from the government!
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The government needs to be
looking at the church
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and saying, "How do
we do this effectively?"
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Eboo Patel: So the big idea
of Christian nationalism
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is that God made America
for Christians.
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And not all Christians,
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but a particularly kind
of white Christian
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with a particular theology
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and a particular
political worldview.
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And that group is supreme
in this nation
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and everyone else
is subordinate.
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And they need
to be kept subordinate,
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with violence if necessary.
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Let me tell you something.
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You ain't seen
an insurrection yet.
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The church of the living God
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is an institution
that the gates of hell
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shall not prevail against it,
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and the Bible says
that we'll take it by force!
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That's what the Bible says!
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Christian nationalism
is nationalism.
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It has nothing to do
with Christianity.
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It's about power in politics,
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and let's separate it
from religiosity.
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In this country,
we have freedom of religion.
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We're a secular nation
that is built by, sustained by,
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and filled with people
who have deep faith in God.
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But that's not
Christian nationalism.
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There's a fictional work,
Margaret Atwood book,
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called "The Handmaid's Tale."
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That's Christian nationalism.
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It's men saying
that this is God's law
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and administering it
for the purposes of achieving
absolute political power.
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And the societies
that practice it,
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in whatever form it takes,
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are the most evil places
on Earth.
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Putin stands
accused of war crimes--
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to date, nearly 10,000.
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Katherine Stewart:
When leaders like Putin
in Russia or Orban in Hungry
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or Erdogan in Turkey
bind themselves
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to religious conservatives
in their countries,
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what they do is signal
that there is a so-called
correct religion,
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one that has access
to the president
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and has disproportionate voice
in the public square.
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And then
there's everybody else.
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I mean, that's how
Christian nationalism works.
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It divides the insider
from the outsider,
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the pure from the impure.
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Every other authority
that exerts itself
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outside of the kingdom
of Jesus Christ
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is an illegal authority.
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Samuel Perry:
Our most recent survey data
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shows that about
a third of Americans
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are either friendly to
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or true believers
of Christian nationalism.
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That federal government should
advocate for Christian values.
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That there should be
no separation between
church and state.
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That we as a country have
a special relationship with God.
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Though is completely
politically incorrect to say,
the truth is this.
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America was founded
as a Christian nation.
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And our success as a nation
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depends upon our fidelity
to God's word.
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And I'm tired of this separation
of church and state junk.
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That's not in the Constitution.
It was in a stinking letter,
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and it means nothing like
what they say it does.
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Randall Balmer:
When the founders configured
this new nation,
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they recognized
that religious establishment
was a form of tyranny.
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It tyrannized the people.
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And so they came up
with this radical idea
that the people themselves
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should determine
how they wanted to worship
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rather to have that dictated
by the state.
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Russell Moore:
The separation of the state
from the church
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is a key Baptist
confessional principle
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that predates
the United States of America.
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Because people
have to come to God
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one by one through new birth,
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someone cannot be claimed
as a Christian
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because of citizenship
in a state.
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So if the state or the culture
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bullies people
out of openly expressing
their religious views,
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you don't end up
with Christians.
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You end up
with pretend Christians.
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And as an evangelical Christian,
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I don't think
that takes anyone to heaven.
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♪ My home
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♪ Sweet home
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I wanna say a word of greeting
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to the most resilient,
the most courageous,
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the most
faith-friendly president
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in the history of America,
President Donald Trump.
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President Trump, we love you.
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William Barber II:
I would say they don't
have their Jesus.
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They may have their Trump,
but they don't have their Jesus.
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I'm kind of particular
about the Jesus thing.
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They can't have that
brown-skinned Palestinian Jew
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who said, "I come to preach
good news to the poor,
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healing to the brokenhearted,
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recovery of sight
to the blind."
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They can't have that Jesus
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because he's already told us
what he stands for.
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And that's what always
gets in the way
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of Christian nationalism
and proves it ain't Christian,
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because the problem is Jesus.
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If you're tired of a president
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that's committed
to lying and racism
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and economic policies
that cater to the wealthy
and hurt the poor,
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then embolden
and intensify your agitation
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and get everybody
to the ballot box!
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We gotta challenge
Christian nationalism
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that tries to teach us
that real faith
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is being against gay people
and for tax cuts,
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and believing
that Jesus was a founding
member of the NRA.
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We gotta challenge all that
and say no.
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Now, having said that though,
let's own a few things.
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It is not new.
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It's always been a part
of this American experience,
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those who want to take religion
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and use it to justify
all kinds of evil.
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Christian nationalism has been
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an effective political tool
for centuries.
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The Ku Klux Klan emerged
post Civil War
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to challenge emancipation.
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As waves of immigrants
arrived from Europe,
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the Klan condemned them
as a new threat.
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At its peak in 1924, the Klan
claimed 8 million members.
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The vast majority
were white evangelicals.
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Linda Gordon:
The Klan argued that
America was destined by God
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to be
a white Protestant country.
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And what that meant was that
all of these immigrants,
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all of these people coming in
were actually subverting
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what was the true destiny
of America.
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The Klan claimed
to have 40,000 ministers.
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So if you hear these stories
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from people that you
are socialized to respect,
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they are gonna carry a weight
even beyond rumors.
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And the view of evangelicals,
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there was a lot of talk
about Satan.
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That it is Satan that
is driving these enemies.
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Once you believe that Satan
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is an actual present,
daily force,
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it adds a tremendous intensity
to the commitment to loyalty.
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Samuel Perry:
For decades and decades,
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there has been a strain
of Christian nationalism
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in the American
popular consciousness,
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but it seems to reemerge
during times of intense cultural
and political conflict.
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Especially when those who have
traditionally been in power--
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white conservative
Christian men especially--
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feel like that power
is threatened.
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Martin Luther King Jr.:
I think it is one of
the tragedies of our nation
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that 11:00 on Sunday morning
is one of the most
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segregated hours
in Christian America.
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Any church that stands
against integration
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and that has a segregated body
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is standing against the spirit
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and the teachings
of Jesus Christ.
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Good morning.
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I'm Jerry Falwell, pastor here.
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Isn't it grand
to be a Christian?
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Jerry Falwell,
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like many other white,
evangelical leaders,
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claimed segregation
was biblical
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and refused to integrate.
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My, what a wonderful-looking
congregation.
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I didn't say
a wonderful congregation.
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I said a wonderful-looking
congregation.
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George Wallace: Today
I draw the line in the dust,
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and I say segregation now,
segregation tomorrow,
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and segregation forever.
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Lyndon Johnson:
Wherever states and counties
are using regulations
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or laws or tests
to deny the right to vote,
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then they will be struck down.
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And under this act,
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if any county does
not want federal intervention,
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it need only open
its polling places
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to all of its people.
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Jesse Helms:
The real challenge to
Christians in this country,
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is do we really want
to save America?
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Do we want to to prevent it
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from being taken over
by godless atheists?
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Now if that sounds extreme,
so be it.
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But that is challenge we face,
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because the other side
is working.
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And the question is
are we willing to work, too?
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You see, government is the flow
of power and force.
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When government is in the hands
of godly men, it is good.
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But in the hands of all others,
it is evil.
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Paul Weyrich:
You who are pastors,
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who have chosen
by God Almighty to lead,
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we are talking
about Christianizing America.
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Amen.
- We are talking about
spreading the gospel
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in a political context. Amen.
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We share the guilt
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because we have ceded
certain areas
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of endeavor to the devil.
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Paul Weyrich
was a dangerous combination
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of religious zealot and
savvy Republican operative.
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He realized that
if he could organize an army
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of angry Christians
into a powerful voting block,
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he could completely
transform America.
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Make no mistake about it.
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Even if we should prevail
in every possibility
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in the November election,
our job will just be beginning.
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Amen.
That's right.
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Jim Wallis: In 1980,
Paul Weyrich went to
Jerry Falwell,
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who was just
a fundamentalist preacher,
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and Pat Robertson,
who had a TV show,
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and said,
"Give us your lists.
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Give us your names,
and we'll make you household
words in America."
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And they created
the Moral Majority.
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It was a political creation
from the political right
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to co-opt evangelicals
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into a Republican power block
in their party,
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in the country,
and that's what they did.
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Jerry Falwell:
Moral Majority is not
a religious organization.
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It's a very
political organization,
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and one's membership is based
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upon citizenship in this
country and a commitment
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to a pro-life,
pro-traditional family--
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pro-moral,
and pro-American position.
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Moral Majority claims
47 state organizations
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and a network
of 72,000 preachers
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combining to form
what some call a Christian
political machine.
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Everything that we do here
is aimed at the next world
or it ought not to be done.
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Bill Moyers:
The preachers here
turn the meetings over
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to the professionals,
men like Paul Weyrich.
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He spends much of his time
urging ministers
to get out the vote.
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And then my friends,
we will truly see
a moral majority in America.
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May God bless you.
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Lisa Sharon Harper:
When I was younger,
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there was
an itinerant preacher
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who came through
for a revival.
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It was a Sunday evening
camp church meeting.
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So, you know,
with the piano and the singing
of the hymns, you know?
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Think white 1950s.
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That's really literally
what it felt like.
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We're listening to the
hellfire/brimstone preacher,
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and he's really
getting to his point,
which is, you know,
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you're gonna go to hell
if you don't accept Jesus.
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And my friend tapped me
on the shoulder,
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and she said,
"Would you go up with me?"
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We walked up the aisle
and knelt down at the altar.
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And Terry started to cry.
I started to cry.
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I mean, both of us
were just weeping.
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There was a very real innocence,
welcoming home.
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A spiritual welcoming home.
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It was very, very soon
after that handed a tract
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that told me that
I had to vote for Reagan,
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even though I was only
about 14 years old.
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I was gonna be voting
anytime soon,
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but I had to become a Republican
in order to be a Christian.
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I can't tell people how to vote.
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I just go around
the country saying,
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"Vote for the Reagan
of your choice."
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With Weyrich coaching,
their message was direct.
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Republicans were
the party of God
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and the Democrats were
the party of the devil.
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Jerry Falwell:
I would say that just about
every church in America,
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the evangelical
fundamentalist churches,
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follow the cue
of their pastor.
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That's an
extraordinary amount of power.
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Yes.
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I'm sick and tired of hearing
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about all of the radicals
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and the perverts the liberals
and the leftists
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and the communists
coming out of the closet!
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It's time for God's people
to come out of the closet,
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out of the churches,
and change America!
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We must do it.
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
It was important
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for the Moral Majority
to be able to claim
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the authority of God
for a partisan agenda.
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You know, it wasn't that this is
our version of what God wants
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versus another version
of what God wants.
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No, this is the word,
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you know, from the Lord,
of what God wants.
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So the GOP became
"God's Own Party"
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in the minds of the people
who only heard that story.
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Ronald Reagan:
I was asked once what book
I would choose
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if I were shipwrecked
on an island
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and could have only one book
for the rest of my life.
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I replied that I knew
of only one book
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that could be read, and reread,
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and continue to be a challenge.
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The Bible,
the Old and New Testaments.
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Pat Robertson:
Reagan is winning the votes
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of 26% of the white electorate
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who are followers
of the evangelical preachers.
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This group is providing Reagan
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with his clear margin
in the election.
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♪ My country 'tis of thee
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♪ Sweet land of liberty
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Weyrich had succeeded
in harnessing
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the evangelical voting bloc.
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He had found his army,
and it became the foundation
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of the modern Christian
nationalist movement.
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So help us, God,
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we will make America
great again.
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Amen.
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As of this morning,
we have a president-elect
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who is committed to help us
pass a human life amendment
through the Congress.
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We all agree that life begins
at conception,
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and we're willing
to stand up together
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in the defense of voiceless,
defenseless unborn babies.
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One of the most durable myths
is that the religious right
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galvanized as
a political movement
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in direct response
to the Roe v. Wade decision
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of January 22, 1973.
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And it utterly false.
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Jerry Falwell,
by his own admission,
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did not preach his first
anti-abortion sermon
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until February of 1978.
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That's more than five years
after the Roe v. Wade decision.
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The religious right
responded to a court ruling,
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but it was not
the Roe v. Wade decision.
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It was a lower court ruling
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on school desegregation.
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June 30th, 1971,
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the court ruled
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that any institution
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that engages
in racial discrimination
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or racial segregation is not,
by definition,
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a charitable institution.
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Therefore, it has no claims
on tax-exempt status.
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It got the attention of people
like Jerry Falwell
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who had his own
segregation academy
in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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and in particular,
Bob Jones University,
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which had a long history
of racial discrimination.
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And that provided the catalyst
for the religious right.
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It had nothing to do
with abortion.
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Weyrich's clever move
was to recognize
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that if he really wanted
grassroots evangelicals
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to be part of this movement,
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he needed an issue
other than defense
of racial segregation
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in the late 1970s.
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It was the most
politically sensitive case
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before the Supreme Court
this term.
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The ruling has dealt
a severe blow
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to the Reagan administration
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and to private schools
that discriminate.
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The justices have ruled
the government
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must deny tax breaks
to schools in violation.
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Bob Jones III:
I'm very sad for America.
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I think we witnessed today
the death of religious freedom,
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murdered by the Supreme Court.
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Lisa Sharon Harper:
When the constructors
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of the religious right
came together in 1980,
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they made
their principal battle cry
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to turn the Supreme Court.
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Why? Why would they do that?
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Why would they choose
the Supreme Court?
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A conservative majority
in the Supreme Court
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has absolutely never
protected the rights
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of people of color
or women or any minority.
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So if your goal is
to preserve white patriarchy,
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then you want
a conservative Supreme Court.
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The masterminds
of the religious right
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did not raise
the white supremacy flag.
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They raised the abortion flag
in order to get the same result.
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And they got it.
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In this historic decision,
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the Supreme Court has now
overturned Roe v. Wade.
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This is moment
America and women's rights
went back in time.
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- Whoo!
- I'm so happy!
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It's a blessing.
It's a miracle from God.
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The ruling is a win
for conservatives
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and the Christian right's
influence on the court
and in politics.
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Elizabeth Warren:
Six extremists on the
United States Supreme Court
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have decided that
they can force all of America
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to bend to their personal
religious and moral views.
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Ted Koppel:
The White House Rose Garden
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was the scene today
for photo ops,
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waiting for President Reagan
and Judge Sandra O'Connor
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to stroll casually into view.
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In 1981, President Reagan
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nominated Sandra Day O'Connor
to the Supreme Court,
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but conservative evangelicals
felt betrayed.
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She was pro-choice.
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Richard Viguerie:
We are very disappointed
at the president,
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and that he's apparently
going against the 1980
Republican platform.
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Right-wing opponents
of her nomination
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were claiming that
she's not only pro-abortion,
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she was also alleged
to be an active feminist.
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Paul Weyrich: The White House
people that were sent here
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they ran against Washington
to get elected,
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but they have now
been co-opted by Washington.
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I'm not the kind of conservative
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that says preserve
the status quo
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I think the status quo
in large measures is awful.
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Rather, let us change
the premises
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upon which we're operating.
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Paul Weyrich
realized the Republican party
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was not committed to his goal
of a theocratic America.
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He wanted revolution,
not accommodation.
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In 1981, Weyrich co-founded
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the Council
for National Policy,
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a secretive network
to spearhead the Christian
nationalist movement.
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40 years later,
it has become one
of the most influential
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political organizations
in the country.
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Anne Nelson:
Paul Weyrich was grand
architect of the movement.
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He talked about the way
that his vision of religion
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needed to dominate every aspect
of American culture and society.
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They realized that
this was going to go
496
00:28:50,511 --> 00:28:53,122
against the majority
of Americans,
497
00:28:53,122 --> 00:28:54,645
but they felt
they had the right
498
00:28:54,645 --> 00:28:56,256
and the obligation
to do that.
499
00:28:56,256 --> 00:28:59,259
Now why did they feel entitled
500
00:28:59,259 --> 00:29:02,349
to dominate American society?
501
00:29:02,349 --> 00:29:06,048
Why should these people have
dominion over the rest of us?
502
00:29:06,048 --> 00:29:09,486
A lot of the Council
for National Policy's vision
503
00:29:09,486 --> 00:29:11,924
was rooted in a form
of Calvinism
504
00:29:11,924 --> 00:29:16,929
where the belief was that God
favored certain people,
505
00:29:16,929 --> 00:29:21,150
and that was reflected
in their level of prosperity.
506
00:29:21,150 --> 00:29:24,153
So if you were
a very rich person,
507
00:29:24,153 --> 00:29:28,897
that's because God had
predestined you for salvation.
508
00:29:28,897 --> 00:29:31,726
And on the other hand,
if you were a poor
509
00:29:31,726 --> 00:29:33,989
Black single mother
in Milwaukee,
510
00:29:33,989 --> 00:29:37,950
that was because God
had predestined you to be that,
511
00:29:37,950 --> 00:29:42,258
and he did not favor you
with the wealth and riches.
512
00:29:42,258 --> 00:29:45,348
I don't think we have apologize
for God's blessings,
513
00:29:45,348 --> 00:29:47,786
but we-- you know,
money is not the focus
of our life.
514
00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:51,354
Isn't it easy to say that
if actually you're the only
rich guy standing there?
515
00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:53,879
It takes a lot of money
to do what we do.
516
00:29:53,879 --> 00:29:55,924
You said that you don't like
to fly commercial
517
00:29:55,924 --> 00:29:59,275
because you
don't wanna get into a tube
with a bunch of demons.
518
00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:01,800
Do you really believe
that human beings are demons?
519
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,498
No, I do not,
and don't you ever say I did.
520
00:30:04,498 --> 00:30:06,587
You need to send in 35,000.
521
00:30:06,587 --> 00:30:08,850
You need to send in
that $100,000 check.
522
00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:10,678
If you do not write
that P.O. box
523
00:30:10,678 --> 00:30:12,680
and you do not call
that toll-free number,
524
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,118
you will never see
sustainment in your life
and your dream will die.
525
00:30:16,118 --> 00:30:19,252
So their whole worldview
526
00:30:19,252 --> 00:30:22,995
was to increase income disparity
527
00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:25,519
as a gesture of God's will.
528
00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:28,870
A lot of their writings
529
00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:30,480
sound as though they believe
530
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,483
they have a direct line to God.
531
00:30:33,483 --> 00:30:37,661
At the core of
Weyrich's political ambitions
to overturn democracy
532
00:30:37,661 --> 00:30:42,318
was Rousas Rushdoony's vision
of a theocratic government.
533
00:30:42,318 --> 00:30:45,626
If democracy exalts man
in the place of God
534
00:30:45,626 --> 00:30:49,456
and the will of man to
the place of God, it will fail.
535
00:30:49,456 --> 00:30:51,371
And it is failing today.
536
00:30:51,371 --> 00:30:53,199
Samuel Perry:
One of the very foundations
537
00:30:53,199 --> 00:30:56,376
of Rushdoony's theology,
often called Dominionism,
538
00:30:56,376 --> 00:30:59,292
is to try
to reconstruct the nation
along Christian lines
539
00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:02,904
according to the Bible,
according to biblical foundations.
540
00:31:02,904 --> 00:31:04,950
And democracy,
especially liberal democracy,
541
00:31:04,950 --> 00:31:06,821
isn't really necessary to that.
542
00:31:06,821 --> 00:31:08,867
Matter of fact,
liberal democracy
is kind of the enemy.
543
00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:12,958
And you think democracy
has substituted what
544
00:31:12,958 --> 00:31:15,917
for the kingdom of God?
545
00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:21,009
The will of the majority.
546
00:31:21,009 --> 00:31:24,534
If we love these liberals,
as we must,
547
00:31:24,534 --> 00:31:28,060
if we love these people who are,
548
00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:31,237
despite the terrible pain
that it takes to even say it,
549
00:31:31,237 --> 00:31:34,109
helping to murder the unborn,
as we must,
550
00:31:34,109 --> 00:31:37,286
then we want what
is right for them,
551
00:31:37,286 --> 00:31:39,941
and what is right
for their immortal souls
552
00:31:39,941 --> 00:31:43,162
is to get them out of
public policy in this country.
553
00:31:45,294 --> 00:31:48,210
In Paul Weyrich's eyes,
the goal was winning.
554
00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:52,171
The goal was conservative
Christians in positions of power
555
00:31:52,171 --> 00:31:55,783
and being able to dictate
how things go in our country,
556
00:31:55,783 --> 00:31:59,265
not ensuring
that fair elections happen.
557
00:31:59,265 --> 00:32:01,615
I don't want everybody to vote.
558
00:32:01,615 --> 00:32:04,835
Elections are not won
by a majority of people.
559
00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:08,665
They never have been from
the beginning of our country
and they are not now.
560
00:32:08,665 --> 00:32:10,711
As a matter of fact,
our leverage in the elections,
561
00:32:10,711 --> 00:32:15,629
quite candidly, goes up as
the voting populace goes down.
562
00:32:15,629 --> 00:32:18,066
Since the election,
Republican state lawmakers
563
00:32:18,066 --> 00:32:20,982
have introduced over 250 bills
564
00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:24,594
in 43 states
to limit voter access.
565
00:32:24,594 --> 00:32:27,162
The law bans
the use of ballot drop boxes
566
00:32:27,162 --> 00:32:30,644
and allows the state
legislature to take over
local election boards.
567
00:32:30,644 --> 00:32:33,038
They're gonna vote for Trump
whether you like it or not.
568
00:32:33,038 --> 00:32:35,127
You got no choice!
569
00:32:35,127 --> 00:32:39,696
We are seeing
rejection rates from anywhere
between 25% to 40%.
570
00:32:39,696 --> 00:32:45,659
It designed to ensure
that we have minority rule
in the United States,
571
00:32:45,659 --> 00:32:47,748
that we don't have a democracy.
572
00:32:47,748 --> 00:32:50,011
What do we want?
Voting rights!
573
00:32:50,011 --> 00:32:52,057
When do we want it?
Now!
574
00:32:52,057 --> 00:32:56,583
This is not Jim Crow.
This is James Crow Esquire.
575
00:32:56,583 --> 00:32:59,020
He went to school,
got a law degree,
576
00:32:59,020 --> 00:33:01,196
and he has come back
to try to take out
577
00:33:01,196 --> 00:33:03,938
every progressive voice
in this nation.
578
00:33:17,517 --> 00:33:18,648
Bill Moyers:
At the touch of a button,
579
00:33:18,648 --> 00:33:20,259
millions of letters a year
580
00:33:20,259 --> 00:33:22,348
portray a world bristling
with enemies
581
00:33:22,348 --> 00:33:24,480
and call for help--
meaning money.
582
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,701
Direct mail gave
the Council nationwide reach
583
00:33:27,701 --> 00:33:29,572
to build
their grassroots movement.
584
00:33:29,572 --> 00:33:31,313
But to truly change
the culture,
585
00:33:31,313 --> 00:33:35,187
they needed to find a more
substantial donor base.
586
00:33:39,278 --> 00:33:40,931
Anne Nelson:
In Oklahoma, where I grew up,
587
00:33:40,931 --> 00:33:43,151
we called it the buckle
of the Bible Belt,
588
00:33:43,151 --> 00:33:46,676
and that certainly included
Texas and Louisiana.
589
00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:51,638
But those are also
the centerpieces of
the American oil industry.
590
00:33:55,381 --> 00:33:58,993
In the 1980s,
you have the entry
591
00:33:58,993 --> 00:34:02,649
of these incredibly wealthy
oil barons
592
00:34:02,649 --> 00:34:04,694
putting money
into political campaigns
593
00:34:04,694 --> 00:34:06,174
and political operations.
594
00:34:06,174 --> 00:34:09,003
And so they found that
they had natural allies
595
00:34:09,003 --> 00:34:12,137
with fundamentalists
and evangelical Christians.
596
00:34:12,137 --> 00:34:14,400
The church people
work for the oil companies.
597
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,750
The oil company people
go to the churches.
598
00:34:16,750 --> 00:34:18,534
One hand washes the other.
599
00:34:18,534 --> 00:34:20,362
Weyrich struck a deal
600
00:34:20,362 --> 00:34:22,538
with oil and gas billionaires.
601
00:34:22,538 --> 00:34:25,454
In return for their support,
he would make the Council
602
00:34:25,454 --> 00:34:28,109
a powerful political voice
for eliminating
603
00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:31,895
their corporate taxes
and regulations.
604
00:34:31,895 --> 00:34:34,811
If you look at the roster of
the Council for National Policy,
605
00:34:34,811 --> 00:34:38,859
you see these names surface
again and again
606
00:34:38,859 --> 00:34:40,687
from these key states.
607
00:34:42,602 --> 00:34:44,386
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
The Council for National Policy
608
00:34:44,386 --> 00:34:47,955
was founded as a place
where major money
609
00:34:47,955 --> 00:34:51,350
could be invested toward
making their narrative
610
00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:54,004
the mainstream interpretation
611
00:34:54,004 --> 00:34:57,225
of what it meant to talk about
moral issues in public life.
612
00:34:57,225 --> 00:35:00,620
And I think that was very much
a response to the role
613
00:35:00,620 --> 00:35:03,449
of religious leadership
in the mid-20th century
614
00:35:03,449 --> 00:35:05,190
and in
the Civil Rights movement.
615
00:35:05,190 --> 00:35:07,931
The power of a voice
like Martin King's
616
00:35:07,931 --> 00:35:11,021
demanded a moral majority
to answer it.
617
00:35:11,021 --> 00:35:12,806
And they knew that
if they didn't do that,
618
00:35:12,806 --> 00:35:14,199
they were gonna lose
that struggle
619
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:16,026
for the moral narrative.
620
00:35:20,727 --> 00:35:25,775
Well, I was born
in rural North Carolina
in tobacco country
621
00:35:25,775 --> 00:35:30,563
the Sunday after Ronald Reagan
was elected president in 1980.
622
00:35:30,563 --> 00:35:33,305
An incredible amount
of money was invested
623
00:35:33,305 --> 00:35:35,829
in targeting
communities like ours
624
00:35:35,829 --> 00:35:38,397
and to use
our religious identity
625
00:35:38,397 --> 00:35:41,617
to make us part
of a voting coalition
626
00:35:41,617 --> 00:35:43,837
of white people in the South
and in the suburbs
627
00:35:43,837 --> 00:35:45,491
and across the Sun Belt.
628
00:35:45,491 --> 00:35:48,624
It became something
that I as an earnest kid
629
00:35:48,624 --> 00:35:52,585
took very seriously,
and I wanted to everything
that I could for Jesus,
630
00:35:52,585 --> 00:35:55,805
and I thought that meant
I needed to become President
of the United States.
631
00:35:55,805 --> 00:35:57,894
So that was my goal
as a teenager,
632
00:35:57,894 --> 00:35:59,461
and it's what got me involved
633
00:35:59,461 --> 00:36:01,768
in the kind
of formation programs
634
00:36:01,768 --> 00:36:04,249
that the religious right had
established for people like me.
635
00:36:04,249 --> 00:36:08,209
I figured out how to apply
as a 16-year-old
636
00:36:08,209 --> 00:36:12,126
to be a page in Senator
Strom Thurmond's office.
637
00:36:12,126 --> 00:36:15,173
He was an old-school racist.
638
00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:18,915
He campaigned on segregation
and explicit racism
639
00:36:18,915 --> 00:36:20,526
for as long
as he could survive that.
640
00:36:20,526 --> 00:36:22,223
But when he crossed
the rubicon,
641
00:36:22,223 --> 00:36:25,270
he learned to speak
in a different way.
642
00:36:25,270 --> 00:36:29,578
We were told to vote
for people like Strom Thurmond
because they were pro-life.
643
00:36:29,578 --> 00:36:33,278
Well, I began to see,
when I got up close
and began to participate
644
00:36:33,278 --> 00:36:35,932
in the so-called
pro-life politics,
645
00:36:35,932 --> 00:36:38,848
is that it really
didn't have much to do
with serving life.
646
00:36:38,848 --> 00:36:43,331
Senator Thurmond
was the chair of the Senate
Armed Services Committee,
647
00:36:43,331 --> 00:36:45,551
and so there was a whole lot
of talk about how to serve
648
00:36:45,551 --> 00:36:48,380
the interests
of military contractors.
649
00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:52,732
I began to question whether
biblical values really mattered
very much to these folks.
650
00:36:54,951 --> 00:36:56,997
When I came back
to North Carolina
651
00:36:56,997 --> 00:36:59,260
after that experience
in Washington D.C.,
652
00:36:59,260 --> 00:37:02,220
I went to a meeting that
the governor's office hosted,
653
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:04,483
and there was
a motivational speaker.
654
00:37:04,483 --> 00:37:08,791
By the time he had finished
with this group of young
political hopefuls,
655
00:37:08,791 --> 00:37:10,793
he had all of us
up on our feet.
656
00:37:10,793 --> 00:37:14,232
It was almost
a sort of a tent meeting
revival kind of feel,
657
00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:17,278
and I wasn't entirely sure
what had happened to me.
658
00:37:17,278 --> 00:37:21,239
So I got to know
the Reverend William Barber
as a 17-year-old kid,
659
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,111
and he began to introduce me
660
00:37:24,111 --> 00:37:27,201
to the long tradition
that he was part of.
661
00:37:27,201 --> 00:37:30,248
A tradition of people who
took their faith very seriously,
662
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:33,903
but always connected that with
work for justice in the world.
663
00:37:33,903 --> 00:37:37,211
William Barber:
I think it's an abdication of
my Christian responsibility
664
00:37:37,211 --> 00:37:40,736
not to remind politicians
that the budgets you pass
665
00:37:40,736 --> 00:37:43,391
in these legislatures
is a moral document.
666
00:37:43,391 --> 00:37:46,176
That if you pass a budget
that hurts poor people
667
00:37:46,176 --> 00:37:48,701
and takes healthcare
from sick people,
668
00:37:48,701 --> 00:37:52,879
that in fact you are
violating fundamental values
of the Christian faith,
669
00:37:52,879 --> 00:37:54,837
which are love,
justice, and mercy.
670
00:37:54,837 --> 00:37:56,274
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
Christian nationalism
671
00:37:56,274 --> 00:37:57,884
is incredibly powerful
672
00:37:57,884 --> 00:38:00,016
because of the money
that's been invested in it.
673
00:38:00,016 --> 00:38:03,933
But I think it's also absolutely
essential that people realize
674
00:38:03,933 --> 00:38:07,415
it is not the majority position
in this country.
675
00:38:07,415 --> 00:38:10,113
It's not even the majority
position among Christians.
676
00:38:10,113 --> 00:38:15,771
I think it's
absolutely imperative that
we lift up the witness
677
00:38:15,771 --> 00:38:18,513
of people who practice
a different kind of faith.
678
00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:28,828
Jerry Falwell:
This is the first time
679
00:38:28,828 --> 00:38:31,004
that we've been
attacked on our soil,
680
00:38:31,004 --> 00:38:33,746
and by far the worst results.
681
00:38:33,746 --> 00:38:36,618
I really believe that the pagans
682
00:38:36,618 --> 00:38:38,490
- and the abortionists...
- Oh, yeah.
683
00:38:38,490 --> 00:38:40,709
...and the feminists and
the gays and the lesbians,
684
00:38:40,709 --> 00:38:44,757
all of them who tried
to secularize America,
685
00:38:44,757 --> 00:38:49,544
I point the finger
in their face and say,
"You helped this happen."
686
00:38:49,544 --> 00:38:51,807
At the turn of the century,
the religious right
687
00:38:51,807 --> 00:38:54,854
wielded significant
political power.
688
00:38:54,854 --> 00:38:57,073
But American society
was no closer
689
00:38:57,073 --> 00:38:59,380
to their vision
of a Christian nation.
690
00:38:59,380 --> 00:39:03,689
No one was more disheartened
than the movement's architect.
691
00:39:03,689 --> 00:39:07,997
We are continuing
to decline as a nation.
692
00:39:07,997 --> 00:39:10,783
Our culture
is continuing to decline.
693
00:39:10,783 --> 00:39:12,741
You know,
when all is said and done,
694
00:39:12,741 --> 00:39:16,092
it doesn't matter whether
you have a minimum wage or not,
695
00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:20,880
and it doesn't matter what
kind of trade policy you have
696
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,491
if in fact the moral fabric
697
00:39:23,491 --> 00:39:25,667
of the society
has disintegrated.
698
00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:28,844
Weyrich commissioned a manifesto
699
00:39:28,844 --> 00:39:30,672
which describes in detail
700
00:39:30,672 --> 00:39:33,675
how a Christian elite
will take power in America
701
00:39:33,675 --> 00:39:37,505
by waging
an insurrectionist war.
702
00:39:37,505 --> 00:39:40,726
Anne Nelson: The manifesto
is the purest distillation
703
00:39:40,726 --> 00:39:42,728
of Weyrich's ideas
that we have.
704
00:39:42,728 --> 00:39:45,687
They felt that the political
arena was inadequate.
705
00:39:45,687 --> 00:39:47,689
They weren't guaranteed
of winning elections,
706
00:39:47,689 --> 00:39:50,083
and in fact,
played by the rules,
707
00:39:50,083 --> 00:39:52,694
they would lose
more and more elections
708
00:39:52,694 --> 00:39:55,436
unless they figured out
some detours.
709
00:39:55,436 --> 00:39:58,874
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
The Council for National
Policy and the folks
710
00:39:58,874 --> 00:40:03,488
who were coordinating their
attempts to maintain control
711
00:40:03,488 --> 00:40:07,143
decided that they couldn't use
the institutions.
712
00:40:07,143 --> 00:40:09,711
They needed to delegitimate
and destroy them.
713
00:40:11,713 --> 00:40:13,541
Anne Nelson: Many of
their publications say,
714
00:40:13,541 --> 00:40:15,456
"Our goal is to bring down
715
00:40:15,456 --> 00:40:18,111
the federal government
as we know it."
716
00:40:18,111 --> 00:40:20,548
I mean, what is this image?
717
00:40:20,548 --> 00:40:22,507
Trump is
"God's chaos candidate."
718
00:40:22,507 --> 00:40:24,117
What are they doing
to the American flag?
719
00:40:24,117 --> 00:40:26,336
They're shredding it. Right?
720
00:40:26,336 --> 00:40:29,862
That's what's going on here.
They're shredding it.
721
00:40:29,862 --> 00:40:35,955
So, yes, it's been a declaration
of internal warfare.
722
00:40:38,087 --> 00:40:41,090
Because of
our covenant with God,
723
00:40:41,090 --> 00:40:44,485
we are equipped
and delegated by Him
724
00:40:44,485 --> 00:40:50,056
to destroy every attempted
advance of the enemy.
725
00:40:50,056 --> 00:40:55,496
We take back and permanently
control positions of influence
726
00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:59,152
and leadership in each
of the Seven Mountains.
727
00:40:59,152 --> 00:41:00,936
Whoo!
728
00:41:00,936 --> 00:41:03,678
- Whoo!
- One of the most common
729
00:41:03,678 --> 00:41:05,158
expressions of Dominionism
730
00:41:05,158 --> 00:41:07,682
is called
Seven Mountains Dominionism.
731
00:41:07,682 --> 00:41:10,729
Take from a Levite.
732
00:41:10,729 --> 00:41:13,514
Only 10% of the population
733
00:41:13,514 --> 00:41:15,908
is supposed to be involved
with temple work.
734
00:41:15,908 --> 00:41:20,478
90% takes territory.
735
00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:23,655
The idea is that
you can't take over society
736
00:41:23,655 --> 00:41:27,180
unless you take over
the seven crucial pillars.
737
00:41:28,964 --> 00:41:32,490
They realized that all
of culture was against them.
738
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,535
So they said, "All right,
we don't like Hollywood.
739
00:41:34,535 --> 00:41:37,016
We'll invent
our own Hollywood."
They've done that.
740
00:41:37,016 --> 00:41:41,890
Spirit of God, I am chosen.
741
00:41:41,890 --> 00:41:43,370
Donald Trump.
742
00:41:46,286 --> 00:41:50,812
I saw it,
and it was like it was
twisting and fighting.
743
00:41:50,812 --> 00:41:53,989
Everything that
they told us is a lie.
744
00:41:53,989 --> 00:41:57,602
Anne Nelson:
At public universities,
many students were liberal.
745
00:41:57,602 --> 00:42:00,779
All right, let's direct them
towards Bible colleges
746
00:42:00,779 --> 00:42:03,085
and create this youth core
747
00:42:03,085 --> 00:42:06,741
that Paul Weyrich asked for
in his manifesto.
748
00:42:06,741 --> 00:42:08,613
What we're doing
at Turning Point USA
749
00:42:08,613 --> 00:42:12,704
I believe has the opportunity
to significantly move the dial.
750
00:42:12,704 --> 00:42:14,314
Because whatever happens
on college campuses
751
00:42:14,314 --> 00:42:16,446
will soon happen
in the halls of Congress.
752
00:42:16,446 --> 00:42:22,670
Anne Nelson:
They claim to have trained
some 200,000 candidates
753
00:42:22,670 --> 00:42:25,891
and campaign managers through
the Leadership Institute.
754
00:42:25,891 --> 00:42:28,241
Mike Pence:
It will not be enough just
to win the next election.
755
00:42:28,241 --> 00:42:30,025
We've gotta win
the next generation,
756
00:42:30,025 --> 00:42:31,636
and that's what
the Leadership Institute
is all about.
757
00:42:33,638 --> 00:42:36,292
Anne Nelson:
You go into every sector,
758
00:42:36,292 --> 00:42:40,514
and just as Paul Weyrich's
manifesto laid out the plan,
759
00:42:40,514 --> 00:42:42,603
they've gone
one by one to do it.
760
00:42:44,344 --> 00:42:46,694
Barack Obama:
It's been a long time coming,
761
00:42:46,694 --> 00:42:51,220
but tonight because of what
we did on this stage,
762
00:42:51,220 --> 00:42:55,007
in this election,
at this defining moment,
763
00:42:55,007 --> 00:42:58,924
change has come to America.
764
00:42:58,924 --> 00:43:02,492
The 2008 election
swept Barack Obama
765
00:43:02,492 --> 00:43:04,190
and the Democrats into power
766
00:43:04,190 --> 00:43:07,541
and devastated
the Republican party.
767
00:43:07,541 --> 00:43:10,109
The Council saw
the 2010 midterms
768
00:43:10,109 --> 00:43:13,895
as an opportunity
to exploit the weakened GOP.
769
00:43:16,550 --> 00:43:19,597
In this election year
in the United States,
770
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:23,644
the majority of Americans
say the country
is on the wrong track.
771
00:43:23,644 --> 00:43:25,820
And no segment of the
electorate is more frustrated
772
00:43:25,820 --> 00:43:29,694
with the U.S. government
and President Barack Obama
773
00:43:29,694 --> 00:43:33,654
than the folks driving
the Tea Party movement.
774
00:43:33,654 --> 00:43:37,919
Steve Schmidt: The Tea Party
movement has a lot to do
775
00:43:37,919 --> 00:43:43,621
with Barack Obama's presidency
and an unleash of whitelash,
776
00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:46,624
which has always happened
historically in the country
777
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:49,322
in the face of Black progress.
778
00:43:49,322 --> 00:43:55,545
But the Tea Party
was also a reaction
to the Bush presidency.
779
00:43:55,545 --> 00:43:58,723
What happens in 2008
780
00:43:58,723 --> 00:44:01,377
is we have a mortgage crisis.
781
00:44:01,377 --> 00:44:03,162
Tens of millions of Americans
782
00:44:03,162 --> 00:44:06,426
lose their jobs,
lose their homes.
783
00:44:06,426 --> 00:44:09,995
Not a single Wall Street
banker goes to jail.
784
00:44:09,995 --> 00:44:11,997
Americans believe
that Washington is broken,
785
00:44:11,997 --> 00:44:14,173
that both parties are to blame,
and the Tea Party movement
786
00:44:14,173 --> 00:44:17,089
is an expression
of that sentiment.
787
00:44:17,089 --> 00:44:23,573
Steve Schmidt:
What Tea Party voters
believe by 2009 is this--
788
00:44:23,573 --> 00:44:27,969
Barack Obama set out to change
America and he succeeded,
789
00:44:27,969 --> 00:44:29,536
but he didn't do it alone.
790
00:44:29,536 --> 00:44:32,278
He did with the help
of a corrupt, feckless,
791
00:44:32,278 --> 00:44:36,325
weak Republican establishment
who sold out.
792
00:44:36,325 --> 00:44:39,154
The Council
enlisted Tea Party members
793
00:44:39,154 --> 00:44:42,375
to compete against
incumbent Republicans.
794
00:44:42,375 --> 00:44:45,117
With massive funding,
their candidates had a chance
795
00:44:45,117 --> 00:44:47,946
to infiltrate
the Republican party.
796
00:44:47,946 --> 00:44:51,340
A lot of the groups
that you've supported
have essentially provided
797
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:53,734
financial fertilizer
for the Tea Party.
798
00:44:53,734 --> 00:44:56,606
- Would you agree with that?
- Charles Koch: Yes.
799
00:44:56,606 --> 00:44:59,784
If we had to agree
with everything a group
or a person stood for,
800
00:44:59,784 --> 00:45:01,524
we would never do anything.
801
00:45:01,524 --> 00:45:05,746
Anne Nelson: The Koch
brothers put $50 million--
802
00:45:05,746 --> 00:45:08,923
five-zero-- million dollars
into a state of the art
803
00:45:08,923 --> 00:45:12,187
political data platform
called i360.
804
00:45:12,187 --> 00:45:16,061
And the organizations
affiliated with the Council
for National Policy
805
00:45:16,061 --> 00:45:19,760
paid to develop
a series of apps that could
implement the data
806
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:25,113
and use it for highly targeted
political campaigns
in critical swing states,
807
00:45:25,113 --> 00:45:29,552
and they
had considerable success
through their operations.
808
00:45:31,163 --> 00:45:33,643
The Republicans
will take control
809
00:45:33,643 --> 00:45:36,037
of the House
of Representatives.
810
00:45:36,037 --> 00:45:38,648
The Tea Party
captured political
lightning in a bottle
811
00:45:38,648 --> 00:45:41,564
and helped elect dozens
of new congressmen.
812
00:45:41,564 --> 00:45:43,392
They came in on a promise
to shock Washington
813
00:45:43,392 --> 00:45:46,004
into spending less,
cutting more.
814
00:45:46,004 --> 00:45:48,223
The Council's gambit worked.
815
00:45:48,223 --> 00:45:49,877
The success of the Tea Party
816
00:45:49,877 --> 00:45:54,186
brought Christian
nationalists into the GOP.
817
00:45:54,186 --> 00:45:58,233
So what you have
is the Republican party
818
00:45:58,233 --> 00:46:01,106
trundling along
in its traditional way,
819
00:46:01,106 --> 00:46:03,630
but this parallel structure
that's growing up
820
00:46:03,630 --> 00:46:05,545
that's going to supersede it.
821
00:46:05,545 --> 00:46:08,504
And it gets to the point
of power and influence
822
00:46:08,504 --> 00:46:13,509
that it can mount
a hostile takeover
of the Republican party.
823
00:46:13,509 --> 00:46:17,862
Kill the bill!
Kill the bill! Kill the bill!
824
00:46:21,953 --> 00:46:24,433
William Barber:
We are seeing in state
capitals across the South
825
00:46:24,433 --> 00:46:27,306
and other places
Tea Party extremism,
826
00:46:27,306 --> 00:46:30,483
where the argument is
the way to a better society
827
00:46:30,483 --> 00:46:33,181
is to deny education,
deny healthcare,
828
00:46:33,181 --> 00:46:35,575
deny voting rights,
deny women's rights.
829
00:46:35,575 --> 00:46:39,709
And then if you really
wanna have a great society,
the extremists are saying,
830
00:46:39,709 --> 00:46:42,756
"Give people more guns
and give more tax cuts
to the wealthy."
831
00:46:42,756 --> 00:46:47,500
That kind of policy
demands a moral response.
832
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:52,200
We decided that if they were
going to crucify healthcare,
833
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,725
and crucify living wages,
and crucify voting rights,
834
00:46:55,725 --> 00:46:58,206
every crucifixion
needs a witness.
835
00:46:58,206 --> 00:47:01,731
Every crucifixion
needs somebody that's willing
to call it what it is.
836
00:47:01,731 --> 00:47:05,779
Somebody asked me the question,
"When will you stop?"
837
00:47:05,779 --> 00:47:08,564
Well, that's
a question for them.
838
00:47:08,564 --> 00:47:11,219
Don't ask us when we'll stop.
839
00:47:11,219 --> 00:47:12,568
Ask Tillis and Berger
840
00:47:12,568 --> 00:47:14,919
and the man
in the governor's mansion
841
00:47:14,919 --> 00:47:17,747
when will they stop?
842
00:47:17,747 --> 00:47:20,533
- When will they stop
hurting children?
- That's right.
843
00:47:20,533 --> 00:47:22,927
When will they stop
hurting the sick?
844
00:47:22,927 --> 00:47:25,973
When will they stop hurting
our public schools?
845
00:47:25,973 --> 00:47:28,367
When will they stop
hurting our economics?
846
00:47:28,367 --> 00:47:30,978
Because if they stop,
we'll stop.
847
00:47:30,978 --> 00:47:35,200
But we can't stop as long
as people are being hurt.
848
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:36,854
Before the end of the summer,
849
00:47:36,854 --> 00:47:39,204
thousands of people
showed up every Monday.
850
00:47:39,204 --> 00:47:40,466
And they looked
like North Carolina.
851
00:47:40,466 --> 00:47:41,771
I mean,
they were white people,
852
00:47:41,771 --> 00:47:43,469
Black people, brown people,
853
00:47:43,469 --> 00:47:44,905
indigenous people,
gay people,
854
00:47:44,905 --> 00:47:46,559
straight people,
even Republicans.
855
00:47:46,559 --> 00:47:48,387
Something like 16%
of the people
856
00:47:48,387 --> 00:47:52,173
who went to jail with us
were Republicans.
857
00:47:52,173 --> 00:47:54,045
And so we wanted people
to understand
858
00:47:54,045 --> 00:47:57,918
that racism is not just
about hatred of Black people.
859
00:47:57,918 --> 00:48:00,616
It is really fundamentally
about hatred of democracy.
860
00:48:00,616 --> 00:48:03,924
And racism becomes a tool for
feeding the corporate greed
861
00:48:03,924 --> 00:48:07,232
of a few
who want an aristocracy
862
00:48:07,232 --> 00:48:09,669
and nothing that looks
like a democracy.
863
00:48:10,975 --> 00:48:15,153
Forward together!
864
00:48:15,153 --> 00:48:21,594
Not one step back!
865
00:48:26,860 --> 00:48:31,996
Gentlemen, we know how much
you love hand-raising questions.
866
00:48:31,996 --> 00:48:35,825
Is there anyone onstage
who is unwilling tonight
867
00:48:35,825 --> 00:48:40,221
to pledge you support
to the eventual nominee
of the Republican party
868
00:48:40,221 --> 00:48:45,966
and pledge to not run
an independent campaign
against that person.
869
00:48:45,966 --> 00:48:48,969
Mr. Trump.
870
00:48:48,969 --> 00:48:52,233
So, Mr. Trump...
871
00:48:52,233 --> 00:48:56,629
Elizabeth Neumann: I remember
hearing from a family member
872
00:48:56,629 --> 00:48:59,284
that Donald Trump had met
with a group of faith leaders
873
00:48:59,284 --> 00:49:00,850
and he had become a Christian.
874
00:49:00,850 --> 00:49:02,809
And we needed to view him,
875
00:49:02,809 --> 00:49:07,466
even though
he has this horrible,
morally depraved past--
876
00:49:07,466 --> 00:49:10,382
um, we need to view him
as a King Cyrus.
877
00:49:10,382 --> 00:49:13,515
President Trump
will be like Cyrus.
878
00:49:13,515 --> 00:49:16,083
Trump has the Cyrus anointing.
879
00:49:16,083 --> 00:49:17,998
God was raising him up
like Cyrus.
880
00:49:17,998 --> 00:49:21,045
The point being
that Donald Trump
881
00:49:21,045 --> 00:49:25,832
is going to be this pagan king
that God is going to use
882
00:49:25,832 --> 00:49:29,488
to rebuild the America
that is crumbling.
883
00:49:29,488 --> 00:49:31,925
I really don't think
we can underestimate
884
00:49:31,925 --> 00:49:36,016
how powerful that was
for a certain segment
of the Christian community.
885
00:49:36,016 --> 00:49:41,326
You feel like you're
participating in the prophecies
886
00:49:41,326 --> 00:49:43,676
and that something big
is gonna happen.
887
00:49:43,676 --> 00:49:46,287
So for part of the community
888
00:49:46,287 --> 00:49:50,030
the support became
not just "hold your nose,"
889
00:49:50,030 --> 00:49:54,904
but, like, a rapid encouragement
and excitement about him.
890
00:49:54,904 --> 00:49:57,907
What I'm concerned about
is the reputation
891
00:49:57,907 --> 00:50:00,693
of evangelical Christianity
and the credibility
892
00:50:00,693 --> 00:50:02,695
of the church of Jesus Christ
right now,
893
00:50:02,695 --> 00:50:05,872
when people who previously
told us character matters
894
00:50:05,872 --> 00:50:08,831
are now just waving away
really serious
895
00:50:08,831 --> 00:50:11,008
and shocking character issues
896
00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:12,661
as though
they don't matter at all.
897
00:50:12,661 --> 00:50:16,274
It's just leaving a wreckage
of cynicism in its wake.
898
00:50:16,274 --> 00:50:21,409
In the case of Trump,
I was concerned that
evangelical Christianity
899
00:50:21,409 --> 00:50:25,892
would become synonymous
in the minds of people
inside the church
900
00:50:25,892 --> 00:50:29,200
and outside the church
with Trumpism.
901
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:34,074
Many evangelical Christians
agreed with me then.
902
00:50:34,074 --> 00:50:36,772
It wasn't until after
the primaries that they didn't.
903
00:50:36,772 --> 00:50:41,342
The evangelical leadership
remained skeptical of Trump.
904
00:50:41,342 --> 00:50:46,652
So Ralph Reed, one
of Weyrich's key disciples,
decided to step in.
905
00:50:46,652 --> 00:50:51,439
Please join me in welcoming
the presumptive Republican
nominee for President,
906
00:50:51,439 --> 00:50:54,442
Donald J. Trump.
907
00:50:54,442 --> 00:50:57,010
Reed saw Trump
as the perfect vessel
908
00:50:57,010 --> 00:51:00,448
to deliver
on the Council's goals.
909
00:51:00,448 --> 00:51:02,885
Donald Trump: Here we are,
and here are the goals.
910
00:51:02,885 --> 00:51:08,717
We wanna uphold the sanctity
and dignity of life.
911
00:51:10,197 --> 00:51:12,156
As you know,
I put a list together
912
00:51:12,156 --> 00:51:16,116
of highly,
highly respected judges.
913
00:51:16,116 --> 00:51:19,250
And by the way, these judges
are all pro-life.
914
00:51:22,166 --> 00:51:26,039
Trump followed
the script, and the Council
offered him a deal.
915
00:51:26,039 --> 00:51:29,129
They would pledge
their network's resources
to his campaign
916
00:51:29,129 --> 00:51:33,525
if they could influence
his judicial
and cabinet appointments.
917
00:51:33,525 --> 00:51:35,744
Trump agreed.
918
00:51:35,744 --> 00:51:38,747
The Bible means a lot to me,
but I don't wanna
get into specifics.
919
00:51:38,747 --> 00:51:41,141
- Even to cite a verse--
- No. I don't wanna do that.
I mean--
920
00:51:41,141 --> 00:51:42,751
You're an Old Testament guy
or a New Testament guy?
921
00:51:42,751 --> 00:51:45,102
Uh, probably equal.
922
00:51:45,102 --> 00:51:48,975
2 Corinthians, right?
2 Corinthians 3:17.
923
00:51:48,975 --> 00:51:51,151
That's the whole ball game.
924
00:51:51,151 --> 00:51:53,806
"Where the spirit of the Lord--"
Right?
925
00:51:53,806 --> 00:51:56,548
Anne Nelson: When people
questioned how
926
00:51:56,548 --> 00:52:01,161
these fundamentalists with
their relationship to the Bible
927
00:52:01,161 --> 00:52:04,599
can choose Donald Trump
as their candidate,
928
00:52:04,599 --> 00:52:06,558
it's not because
they identify with him
929
00:52:06,558 --> 00:52:08,342
and feel that he's one of them.
930
00:52:08,342 --> 00:52:10,170
It's because
he can be an instrument.
931
00:52:10,170 --> 00:52:13,652
Trump can the wrecking ball
932
00:52:13,652 --> 00:52:16,176
that they use to bring down
the federal government
933
00:52:16,176 --> 00:52:18,135
that they have
so many problems with.
934
00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:21,834
I believe that God's using him
to destabilize
935
00:52:21,834 --> 00:52:23,879
these progressive institutions,
936
00:52:23,879 --> 00:52:26,926
the penetration of
that progressive ideology
in these places
937
00:52:26,926 --> 00:52:29,842
so that believers
and other viewpoints
938
00:52:29,842 --> 00:52:34,151
can into them and establish
credibility also.
939
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:38,372
Michelle Bachmann: I believe
without a shadow of a doubt
this is the last election.
940
00:52:38,372 --> 00:52:41,419
It's a math problem
of demographics
941
00:52:41,419 --> 00:52:43,334
in a changing United States.
942
00:52:43,334 --> 00:52:46,032
If you look at the numbers
of people who vote
943
00:52:46,032 --> 00:52:48,513
and who lives in the country
and who Barack Obama
944
00:52:48,513 --> 00:52:51,037
and Hillary Clinton want
to bring in to the country,
945
00:52:51,037 --> 00:52:54,910
this is the last election
when we even have a chance
946
00:52:54,910 --> 00:53:00,873
to vote for somebody
who will stand up
for Godly moral principles.
947
00:53:00,873 --> 00:53:03,528
What white
evangelicals lacked in numbers,
948
00:53:03,528 --> 00:53:06,139
the Council made up
for through the vast network
949
00:53:06,139 --> 00:53:08,533
of faith leaders
and high tech mega churches
950
00:53:08,533 --> 00:53:10,230
which spread their message.
951
00:53:10,230 --> 00:53:12,798
It's not too late.
You're not too old.
952
00:53:15,148 --> 00:53:19,108
Our mission is to champion
the pastors of America
953
00:53:19,108 --> 00:53:21,502
for the transformation
of America.
954
00:53:21,502 --> 00:53:25,245
Katherine Stewart:
Leaders of the movement know
that pastors drive votes,
955
00:53:25,245 --> 00:53:29,684
and so they draw pastors
into networks such as
Watchmen On The Wall,
956
00:53:29,684 --> 00:53:32,296
which is an initiative of
the Family Research Council.
957
00:53:32,296 --> 00:53:34,950
It has tens of thousands
of affiliated pastors,
958
00:53:34,950 --> 00:53:37,953
and they delivered these
pastors' messaging materials
959
00:53:37,953 --> 00:53:41,653
that they can use to turn out
their congregations
960
00:53:41,653 --> 00:53:47,311
to vote for the hyper
conservative politicians
that the movement favors.
961
00:53:47,311 --> 00:53:52,925
Father, we thank you
for the grace that you have
bestowed upon this nation.
962
00:53:52,925 --> 00:53:54,535
Anne Nelson:
President of the Family
Research Council,
963
00:53:54,535 --> 00:53:56,798
Tony Perkins,
was the president
964
00:53:56,798 --> 00:53:58,191
of the Council
for National Policy.
965
00:53:58,191 --> 00:54:00,280
There is no air between them,
966
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:04,110
and the Family Research Council
publishes voter guides.
967
00:54:04,110 --> 00:54:06,504
They're called
the iVoterGuides.
968
00:54:06,504 --> 00:54:09,507
They're allegedly nonpartisan,
969
00:54:09,507 --> 00:54:14,207
but you basically have the
Democrat with their policies,
970
00:54:14,207 --> 00:54:18,385
which are things like,
"Hillary Clinton supports
the homosexual agenda,"
971
00:54:18,385 --> 00:54:22,694
and "Donald Trump supports
American families."
972
00:54:22,694 --> 00:54:25,740
- So choose one, right?
- Guess what,
ladies and gentlemen?
973
00:54:25,740 --> 00:54:28,743
This next Tuesday,
you get the privilege
974
00:54:28,743 --> 00:54:32,399
to live out
a biblical Christian worldview
975
00:54:32,399 --> 00:54:34,227
when you go to the poll.
976
00:54:34,227 --> 00:54:37,404
What this network
of organizations has done
977
00:54:37,404 --> 00:54:42,931
has for years
involved data mining of
church directories
978
00:54:42,931 --> 00:54:45,673
which are then cross-referenced
with voter files.
979
00:54:45,673 --> 00:54:50,591
Pastors have been organized
to facilitate this.
980
00:54:50,591 --> 00:54:52,027
Brent Allpress: The Council
for National Policy
981
00:54:52,027 --> 00:54:53,986
has a series
of pretty deep ties
982
00:54:53,986 --> 00:54:56,641
to adjacent organizations.
983
00:54:56,641 --> 00:55:01,254
Gloo, from 2015 through,
was developing something
984
00:55:01,254 --> 00:55:05,084
that became known
as the Gloo Insights
Micro-targeting Platform.
985
00:55:05,084 --> 00:55:09,436
That's a platform
that accesses and harvests data
on all Americans.
986
00:55:09,436 --> 00:55:13,527
They've actively harvested
data from churches,
987
00:55:13,527 --> 00:55:18,445
and most troubling, they have
accessed self-revealed
988
00:55:18,445 --> 00:55:22,188
mental health,
and behavioral health,
and treatment data.
989
00:55:22,188 --> 00:55:26,627
And they're using that
for micro-targeted
Facebook advertising
990
00:55:26,627 --> 00:55:29,848
to harvest
very vulnerable individuals.
991
00:55:29,848 --> 00:55:33,025
And they had a very high
uptake of conversions
and radicalizations
992
00:55:33,025 --> 00:55:36,985
entering into those
large evangelical churches.
993
00:55:36,985 --> 00:55:40,380
Anne Nelson: Now you think
of your average target voter,
994
00:55:40,380 --> 00:55:43,078
and you go back a few years ago,
and Ralph Reed announced,
995
00:55:43,078 --> 00:55:48,562
"We've got 17-18 million
evangelicals who don't vote.
996
00:55:48,562 --> 00:55:52,218
How do we corral them
into voting our way?"
997
00:55:52,218 --> 00:55:54,133
Well, you surround them.
998
00:55:54,133 --> 00:55:57,484
Every one of those households
is gonna be contacted
999
00:55:57,484 --> 00:56:02,315
by this organization
7 to 12 times.
1000
00:56:02,315 --> 00:56:05,449
So if you're this person
out in Missouri,
1001
00:56:05,449 --> 00:56:07,755
this is all the information
you're getting.
1002
00:56:07,755 --> 00:56:10,149
Newspapers have been dying off.
1003
00:56:10,149 --> 00:56:11,977
Local news is disappearing
1004
00:56:11,977 --> 00:56:13,718
from thousands of counties
1005
00:56:13,718 --> 00:56:15,372
in the middle of America.
1006
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:17,112
And what fills that vacuum,
1007
00:56:17,112 --> 00:56:19,376
it's Fox and Sinclair,
1008
00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,943
which function
and sing in harmony.
1009
00:56:21,943 --> 00:56:24,511
So you don't have
the newspapers.
1010
00:56:24,511 --> 00:56:26,948
You're broadcasting
environment has changed.
1011
00:56:26,948 --> 00:56:28,820
When you go online,
1012
00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:31,475
it's not just that
you've chosen a silo.
1013
00:56:31,475 --> 00:56:35,696
You are target for
a multifaceted operation
1014
00:56:35,696 --> 00:56:37,872
of tremendous sophistication.
1015
00:56:37,872 --> 00:56:42,703
USA, USA, USA, USA!
1016
00:56:42,703 --> 00:56:47,752
- USA, USA, USA, USA!
- Donald Trump: Thank you.
1017
00:56:47,752 --> 00:56:52,452
I've just received a call
from Secretary Clinton.
1018
00:56:54,846 --> 00:56:56,500
A complete earthquake.
1019
00:56:56,500 --> 00:56:58,719
This wasn't like any
earthquake I've really seen
1020
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,940
since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
It just came out of nowhere.
1021
00:57:01,940 --> 00:57:03,376
I'm looking
at some numbers here.
1022
00:57:03,376 --> 00:57:06,945
81% evangelicals voted
for Donald Trump.
1023
00:57:06,945 --> 00:57:09,121
- You got it dead right.
- This is historic.
1024
00:57:09,121 --> 00:57:11,340
No Republican nominee
has ever gotten
1025
00:57:11,340 --> 00:57:13,168
that level of support
from evangelicals.
1026
00:57:13,168 --> 00:57:14,909
Franklin Graham: There's been
a lot of discussion
1027
00:57:14,909 --> 00:57:18,173
as to how Donald Trump
won the election.
1028
00:57:18,173 --> 00:57:20,741
I believe that it was God.
1029
00:57:23,309 --> 00:57:26,225
God showed up.
1030
00:57:26,225 --> 00:57:28,445
With the Council
calling the shots,
1031
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:30,534
the wrecking ball
went to work.
1032
00:57:30,534 --> 00:57:32,231
Barbara Walters:
Her critics say
1033
00:57:32,231 --> 00:57:34,799
she wants to privatize
the public school system,
1034
00:57:34,799 --> 00:57:37,584
that she once called quote,
"a dead end."
1035
00:57:37,584 --> 00:57:39,543
Donald Trump
is forming his cabinet
1036
00:57:39,543 --> 00:57:41,240
very much in his own image--
1037
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,721
white, male, and wealthy.
1038
00:57:43,721 --> 00:57:45,157
Stephen Colbert:
Trump named Scott Pruitt,
1039
00:57:45,157 --> 00:57:48,029
sworn enemy of the EPA,
to be the head of--
1040
00:57:48,029 --> 00:57:50,336
What's the word? The EPA.
1041
00:57:50,336 --> 00:57:52,643
Jared Huffman: Some of these
folks' only qualification
1042
00:57:52,643 --> 00:57:56,168
is that they have attempted
to destroy the very agencies
1043
00:57:56,168 --> 00:57:58,387
that they are now hoping to run.
1044
00:57:58,387 --> 00:58:00,825
President Trump
revoking the Obama era law
1045
00:58:00,825 --> 00:58:03,262
expanding federal protection
to streams and waterways
1046
00:58:03,262 --> 00:58:05,003
across the country.
1047
00:58:05,003 --> 00:58:08,049
Donald Trump: Behind me,
we have evangelical leaders.
1048
00:58:08,049 --> 00:58:11,139
We're going to be signing
a day of prayer.
1049
00:58:11,139 --> 00:58:16,449
President Trump
has just signed a historic
$1.5 trillion tax bill.
1050
00:58:16,449 --> 00:58:19,365
Trump told friends
at his Florida club,
1051
00:58:19,365 --> 00:58:21,889
"You all just got
a lot richer."
1052
00:58:21,889 --> 00:58:23,848
National security advisor
Mike Flynn
1053
00:58:23,848 --> 00:58:25,676
saying the quiet parts
out loud.
1054
00:58:25,676 --> 00:58:28,635
We have to have one religion,
one nation under God,
1055
00:58:28,635 --> 00:58:30,419
and one religion under God.
1056
00:58:30,419 --> 00:58:33,248
Steve Schmidt: As Trump rose,
all of these groups,
1057
00:58:33,248 --> 00:58:35,250
Paul Weyrich's group,
people who were viewed
1058
00:58:35,250 --> 00:58:37,688
as fringe players,
as extremists,
1059
00:58:37,688 --> 00:58:42,606
they formed within the party
the base of his movement.
1060
00:58:42,606 --> 00:58:46,218
Bob McEwen:
The Conservative Action Project
is a division of CNP.
1061
00:58:46,218 --> 00:58:48,612
The president got tired
of everybody coming
to our meetings,
1062
00:58:48,612 --> 00:58:50,004
so now we meet
at the White House.
1063
00:58:50,004 --> 00:58:52,224
We are watching
the foundation shift,
1064
00:58:52,224 --> 00:58:54,705
and we're going back to
our founding principles.
1065
00:58:54,705 --> 00:58:56,489
We poured millions of dollars
1066
00:58:56,489 --> 00:58:58,273
into judicial nominations
and vetting
1067
00:58:58,273 --> 00:59:01,276
to make sure the president
picks the best judges.
1068
00:59:01,276 --> 00:59:04,279
I, Brett M. Kavanaugh,
do solemnly swear,
1069
00:59:04,279 --> 00:59:06,978
so help me God.
1070
00:59:08,066 --> 00:59:11,896
You are really special people.
1071
00:59:11,896 --> 00:59:14,638
The support you've given me
has been incredible,
1072
00:59:14,638 --> 00:59:15,900
but I really don't feel guilty
1073
00:59:15,900 --> 00:59:19,033
because I have given you
a lot back.
1074
00:59:19,033 --> 00:59:21,601
Just about everything
I promised.
1075
00:59:21,601 --> 00:59:25,257
And as one of our
great pastors just said,
1076
00:59:25,257 --> 00:59:28,695
"Actually,
you've given us much more, sir,
than you promised."
1077
00:59:28,695 --> 00:59:34,309
And I think that's true
in many respects.
1078
00:59:34,309 --> 00:59:37,312
Samuel Perry:
I think most of Americans
would be completely oblivious
1079
00:59:37,312 --> 00:59:39,271
to the designs behind this,
1080
00:59:39,271 --> 00:59:43,057
that there are intentions
to enshrine Christian identity
1081
00:59:43,057 --> 00:59:47,409
and a certain kind
of Christian identity
as the law of the land.
1082
00:59:47,409 --> 00:59:50,369
Meet Project Blitz,
which funnels religious bills
1083
00:59:50,369 --> 00:59:53,067
to state lawmakers
all across the country.
1084
00:59:53,067 --> 00:59:55,635
The ones that have been
passed in six states already
1085
00:59:55,635 --> 00:59:58,159
are the "In God We Trust" bills,
1086
00:59:58,159 --> 00:59:59,813
which mandate that that slogan
1087
00:59:59,813 --> 01:00:01,510
go up in public schools.
1088
01:00:04,296 --> 01:00:07,604
- Senator Marty.
- John Marty: Thank you,
Madam President.
1089
01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:12,130
79% of Americans believe
in some supreme being,
1090
01:00:12,130 --> 01:00:14,480
which means 21% do not.
1091
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,484
And I would speak against it
for the sake of the 21%
1092
01:00:18,484 --> 01:00:22,444
who this is clearly
not something that is welcoming
1093
01:00:22,444 --> 01:00:24,925
or encouraging or comfortable
for them.
1094
01:00:24,925 --> 01:00:27,841
As a person
with strong religious beliefs,
1095
01:00:27,841 --> 01:00:30,670
I don't want government
pushing my religious beliefs
1096
01:00:30,670 --> 01:00:33,238
or anybody else's
religious beliefs on others.
1097
01:00:33,238 --> 01:00:37,590
That's what the core
of separation of church
and state is about.
1098
01:00:37,590 --> 01:00:42,203
It was probably a Thursday
when we were voting
on that resolution.
1099
01:00:42,203 --> 01:00:46,425
On Sunday morning
I went to church, which I do
on Sunday mornings,
1100
01:00:46,425 --> 01:00:50,821
and I came home, and our home
answering machine was beeping,
and I listened to the message.
1101
01:00:50,821 --> 01:00:56,609
It was a vile obscene statement
from some guy yelling at me
for why I hate God so much.
1102
01:00:56,609 --> 01:00:58,959
And it didn't take long
to figure out what happened.
1103
01:00:58,959 --> 01:01:01,396
It was on "Fox & Friends"
that morning.
1104
01:01:01,396 --> 01:01:03,790
Those of us must hate God,
1105
01:01:03,790 --> 01:01:05,313
and therefore
we were trying to block
1106
01:01:05,313 --> 01:01:07,968
even this innocent
little harmless thing.
1107
01:01:11,102 --> 01:01:16,107
Why is God, the mention of God,
in our schools controversial
for the left today?
1108
01:01:16,107 --> 01:01:19,719
There seems to be an anti-faith
movement in our country,
1109
01:01:19,719 --> 01:01:22,156
to suppress anything
that is religious
1110
01:01:22,156 --> 01:01:24,942
in any way and wipe it
out of government.
1111
01:01:24,942 --> 01:01:26,291
When we stripped
God out of the schools,
1112
01:01:26,291 --> 01:01:27,727
we replaced it
with something else
1113
01:01:27,727 --> 01:01:30,730
like ideological indoctrination,
1114
01:01:30,730 --> 01:01:32,906
and we're seeing
the fruits of that right now.
1115
01:01:32,906 --> 01:01:36,344
Christianity is
in the crosshair today.
1116
01:01:36,344 --> 01:01:38,607
There is a concerted effort
in this country
1117
01:01:38,607 --> 01:01:41,828
by the seculars
to ignore our history
1118
01:01:41,828 --> 01:01:44,744
and turn us into
an absolutely secular world.
1119
01:01:44,744 --> 01:01:47,573
You know,
they're hunting Christians
in many parts of the world.
1120
01:01:47,573 --> 01:01:49,923
And we're not doing that
in the States yet.
1121
01:01:49,923 --> 01:01:51,925
It's real and it is horrific.
1122
01:01:51,925 --> 01:01:53,535
And, yes,
we know other faith groups
1123
01:01:53,535 --> 01:01:55,146
are also being persecuted.
1124
01:01:55,146 --> 01:01:59,237
But Christians have
a giant X on their back.
1125
01:01:59,237 --> 01:02:02,022
Randall Balmer:
The notions that evangelicals
or the religious right
1126
01:02:02,022 --> 01:02:04,633
is aggrieved in this country,
on the face of it
1127
01:02:04,633 --> 01:02:08,420
I think is preposterous.
1128
01:02:08,420 --> 01:02:10,291
I think a case can be made
1129
01:02:10,291 --> 01:02:12,598
that these people in fact
are the aggressors.
1130
01:02:12,598 --> 01:02:17,385
They're the ones who are trying
to impose their values,
1131
01:02:17,385 --> 01:02:22,782
their religious convictions
on the remainder of society.
1132
01:02:22,782 --> 01:02:25,785
Katherine Stewart:
They're actually demanding
a license to discriminate
1133
01:02:25,785 --> 01:02:28,788
against those of whom
they disapprove,
1134
01:02:28,788 --> 01:02:31,922
and they're asking for
an ability to override the law
1135
01:02:31,922 --> 01:02:35,490
when it conflicts
with their religious beliefs.
1136
01:02:35,490 --> 01:02:37,971
For some Americans
that's a cause for alarm,
1137
01:02:37,971 --> 01:02:40,365
and for others it's the answer
to their prayers.
1138
01:02:45,413 --> 01:02:49,461
1776, our founders
boldly declared
1139
01:02:49,461 --> 01:02:54,553
that we are all endowed with
the same divine rights given us
1140
01:02:54,553 --> 01:02:56,729
by our Creator in heaven,
1141
01:02:56,729 --> 01:02:58,992
and that which God
has given us
1142
01:02:58,992 --> 01:03:06,478
we will allow no one ever
to take away ever.
1143
01:03:06,478 --> 01:03:09,873
Samuel Perry:
Christian nationalism really
did create Donald Trump
1144
01:03:09,873 --> 01:03:12,049
to the extent that
without that kind of fear,
1145
01:03:12,049 --> 01:03:14,442
Donald Trump
would've had no chance.
1146
01:03:14,442 --> 01:03:16,096
He wouldn't have
even been close.
1147
01:03:16,096 --> 01:03:17,837
But he was able to leverage
that kind of rhetoric
1148
01:03:17,837 --> 01:03:20,840
to appeal to a very powerful
1149
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:22,842
and influential voting block
of Americans
1150
01:03:22,842 --> 01:03:24,278
who felt like
they had been wronged
1151
01:03:24,278 --> 01:03:26,585
the last eight years
under Obama.
1152
01:03:26,585 --> 01:03:30,850
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
No, he's not an example
of Christian virtue.
1153
01:03:30,850 --> 01:03:33,244
No, there's not much
about his life
1154
01:03:33,244 --> 01:03:35,420
that you could compare
to the life of Jesus,
1155
01:03:35,420 --> 01:03:36,943
But neither has this movement
1156
01:03:36,943 --> 01:03:38,336
ever been about shaping people
1157
01:03:38,336 --> 01:03:39,467
in the way of Jesus.
1158
01:03:39,467 --> 01:03:42,427
This movement has been about
1159
01:03:42,427 --> 01:03:45,082
scaring white Christian people
1160
01:03:45,082 --> 01:03:48,302
into believing that there
is an enemy out there
1161
01:03:48,302 --> 01:03:50,174
that's going to obliterate you.
1162
01:03:50,174 --> 01:03:51,697
If you believe that,
1163
01:03:51,697 --> 01:03:55,048
then you believe
that in your home
1164
01:03:55,048 --> 01:03:58,008
you need to have the biggest,
baddest gun possible.
1165
01:03:58,008 --> 01:04:00,358
And in the White House
you also want the biggest,
1166
01:04:00,358 --> 01:04:03,578
baddest gun possible,
and Donald Trump is that gun.
1167
01:04:05,972 --> 01:04:10,237
Joe Biden's following
the radical left agenda.
1168
01:04:10,237 --> 01:04:14,676
Take away your guns,
destroy your Second Amendment.
1169
01:04:14,676 --> 01:04:19,551
No religion, no anything.
Hurt the Bible, hurt God.
1170
01:04:19,551 --> 01:04:22,684
Samuel Perry:
Because it embraces this
overtly religious language,
1171
01:04:22,684 --> 01:04:27,602
Christian nationalism
represents a tremendous
threat to democracy.
1172
01:04:27,602 --> 01:04:29,735
It's one thing
if you feel like,
1173
01:04:29,735 --> 01:04:33,130
"Hey, my political position
is correct,
1174
01:04:33,130 --> 01:04:35,741
it is justified,
it is backed up by research."
1175
01:04:35,741 --> 01:04:38,309
But it is another thing
when you feel like,
1176
01:04:38,309 --> 01:04:41,921
"We are on the side of God,
and you are on
the side of Satan."
1177
01:04:41,921 --> 01:04:46,926
Your position is demonic.
It is evil in a cosmic sense.
1178
01:04:46,926 --> 01:04:50,408
If you bring the ultimate,
if you bring the sacred
into this argument,
1179
01:04:50,408 --> 01:04:52,366
then you can justify
just about anything
1180
01:04:52,366 --> 01:04:55,108
in the service
of defeating this evil power
1181
01:04:55,108 --> 01:04:56,588
that is out to get your people,
1182
01:04:56,588 --> 01:04:58,459
that is out to destroy
your country
1183
01:04:58,459 --> 01:05:02,333
that God has
a special relationship with.
1184
01:05:02,333 --> 01:05:05,684
I don't care what you think
about fraudulent Sleepy Joe!
1185
01:05:05,684 --> 01:05:08,730
He's a sex-trafficking,
demon-possessed mongrel!
1186
01:05:08,730 --> 01:05:13,866
He's of the left!
God, he's gonna burn
the whole thing to the ground!
1187
01:05:13,866 --> 01:05:17,087
Now, to me, LGBT stands for
"Let God Burn Them."
1188
01:05:17,087 --> 01:05:18,523
Right.
1189
01:05:18,523 --> 01:05:20,960
But I hear you say,
"Well, it's LGBTQ."
1190
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,963
Well, then you could say,
"Let God Burn Them Quickly."
1191
01:05:23,963 --> 01:05:25,922
Russell Moore: In some places
in American life,
1192
01:05:25,922 --> 01:05:27,706
we have
a church growth movement
1193
01:05:27,706 --> 01:05:29,229
but for angry people.
1194
01:05:29,229 --> 01:05:31,405
A sense of theatrical anger
1195
01:05:31,405 --> 01:05:35,757
feels to some people
like depth of conviction,
1196
01:05:35,757 --> 01:05:39,196
when of course it's theater.
1197
01:05:39,196 --> 01:05:41,981
But that can build a crowd.
1198
01:05:41,981 --> 01:05:47,160
Ken Peters:
Now we're gonna fight
to hopefully keep our freedom
1199
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:50,555
because we don't wish this
upon our children
our upon our grandchildren.
1200
01:05:50,555 --> 01:05:52,992
Amen?
But, ladies and gentlemen,
1201
01:05:52,992 --> 01:05:55,560
they are censoring us
like crazy!
1202
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,650
They are trying
to shut down our voice!
Yeah.
1203
01:05:58,650 --> 01:06:02,436
Like Paul Revere said,
"The British are coming!
The British are coming!"
1204
01:06:02,436 --> 01:06:07,006
Well, the leftists are coming.
In fact, they're already here.
1205
01:06:07,006 --> 01:06:10,009
Yes, sir.
- So we aren't afraid.
We aren't fearful.
1206
01:06:10,009 --> 01:06:12,533
But I'm telling you, the Bible
is about to get really real.
1207
01:06:12,533 --> 01:06:14,013
Amen, Yeah.
1208
01:06:14,013 --> 01:06:15,014
Stan Minner:
When Biden says something
1209
01:06:15,014 --> 01:06:16,668
about unifying the nation,
1210
01:06:16,668 --> 01:06:18,017
people like me are convinced
1211
01:06:18,017 --> 01:06:19,845
that we cannot unify with that
1212
01:06:19,845 --> 01:06:23,849
because good cannot unify
with evil.
1213
01:06:23,849 --> 01:06:28,810
And so I don't see a way
of coming together
1214
01:06:28,810 --> 01:06:30,421
in this issue at all.
1215
01:06:30,421 --> 01:06:33,076
This is more of
1216
01:06:33,076 --> 01:06:36,340
we have to take
a stand against this
1217
01:06:36,340 --> 01:06:37,863
and we have to defeat it.
1218
01:06:37,863 --> 01:06:39,691
It has to be defeated.
1219
01:06:39,691 --> 01:06:43,042
Ken Peters: Most of the Bible
was written under persecution.
1220
01:06:43,042 --> 01:06:44,522
Whether you like it or not,
1221
01:06:44,522 --> 01:06:47,699
we're going
into the soldier realm
1222
01:06:47,699 --> 01:06:51,050
where "Onward,
Christian Soldiers"
as a hymn becomes real.
1223
01:06:51,050 --> 01:06:53,531
- That's right.
- Ken Peters: There is
an intensity right now,
1224
01:06:53,531 --> 01:06:58,840
and, yes, I am very concerned
that this is going to end up
in a civil war.
1225
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:02,496
I think it's very important that
every American home that can
1226
01:07:02,496 --> 01:07:04,716
own as many weapons as possible.
1227
01:07:04,716 --> 01:07:09,068
I think peaceful people
that are well-armed
1228
01:07:09,068 --> 01:07:11,070
keeps a peaceful nation.
1229
01:07:11,070 --> 01:07:13,681
This is breaking news.
1230
01:07:13,681 --> 01:07:16,989
Around 2:30 this
afternoon at a Tops supermarket
1231
01:07:16,989 --> 01:07:19,731
at least ten people
have been killed.
1232
01:07:19,731 --> 01:07:23,561
In a 180 page
document posted online,
1233
01:07:23,561 --> 01:07:26,085
the suspected shooter often
referring to Black people
1234
01:07:26,085 --> 01:07:27,913
as "replacers," a reference
1235
01:07:27,913 --> 01:07:30,307
to the Great Replacement
conspiracy theory.
1236
01:07:30,307 --> 01:07:33,527
Jews will not replace us!
1237
01:07:33,527 --> 01:07:36,487
Eboo Patel: I think
the danger of white Christian
nationalist rhetoric
1238
01:07:36,487 --> 01:07:40,099
to Muslims, to Jews,
to Hindus, to atheists,
1239
01:07:40,099 --> 01:07:42,101
I mean,
that's obvious, right?
1240
01:07:42,101 --> 01:07:45,974
Not only are we subordinate,
in many cases we're the enemy.
1241
01:07:45,974 --> 01:07:49,891
We are the reason
that they need to rise,
1242
01:07:49,891 --> 01:07:51,893
because not only do
we need to be subordinate,
1243
01:07:51,893 --> 01:07:55,593
we need to be defeated
and vanquished.
1244
01:07:55,593 --> 01:07:57,769
Miss Neumann, you are recognized
for five minutes.
1245
01:07:57,769 --> 01:07:59,466
Thank you, Chairman Raskin.
1246
01:07:59,466 --> 01:08:02,339
Whether it's an attack
on a school, a nightclub,
1247
01:08:02,339 --> 01:08:06,430
a synagogue, a mosque, a church,
it really needs to stop.
1248
01:08:06,430 --> 01:08:09,955
Elizabeth Neumann: In 2017,
when I joined government
1249
01:08:09,955 --> 01:08:12,088
as the deputy chief of staff
to John Kelly,
1250
01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:15,787
I didn't notice any focus
on domestic terrorism.
1251
01:08:15,787 --> 01:08:19,573
The counterterrorism
community was still
very focused on ISIS,
1252
01:08:19,573 --> 01:08:21,923
and then
Charlottesville happened.
1253
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,800
Donald Trump:
When you say the alt-right,
what about the alt-left
1254
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,716
that came charging at the,
as you say, the alt-right?
1255
01:08:31,716 --> 01:08:33,761
You had a group on one side
that was bad,
1256
01:08:33,761 --> 01:08:37,243
and you had group
on the other side that
was also very violent.
1257
01:08:37,243 --> 01:08:40,159
Elizabeth Neumann:
Because of the way that
the president reacted,
1258
01:08:40,159 --> 01:08:44,816
domestic terrorism
became another one of those
no-go hot topics
1259
01:08:44,816 --> 01:08:47,732
that if you raised at all
to the president,
1260
01:08:47,732 --> 01:08:49,908
he immediately became defensive.
1261
01:08:49,908 --> 01:08:52,606
The Secretary
of Homeland Security
1262
01:08:52,606 --> 01:08:55,522
multiple times asked
for the White House
1263
01:08:55,522 --> 01:08:58,482
to include domestic terrorism
in the counterterrorism strategy
1264
01:08:58,482 --> 01:09:02,703
that the administration
eventually released,
and we were rebuffed.
1265
01:09:02,703 --> 01:09:06,403
So by the time
we have Christchurch,
1266
01:09:06,403 --> 01:09:09,623
and then sadly another attack
in Poway, California,
1267
01:09:09,623 --> 01:09:13,671
and that all leads us up
to El Paso at the Walmart,
1268
01:09:13,671 --> 01:09:16,587
and they're using language
1269
01:09:16,587 --> 01:09:20,591
straight out of
the president's campaigns.
1270
01:09:20,591 --> 01:09:25,073
He has the opportunity
to set the record straight.
1271
01:09:25,073 --> 01:09:26,292
He doesn't do that.
1272
01:09:28,555 --> 01:09:32,907
Thank you to the Council
for National Policy.
1273
01:09:32,907 --> 01:09:35,997
Together we're committed
to keeping America safe,
1274
01:09:35,997 --> 01:09:39,523
strong, prosperous, and free.
1275
01:09:39,523 --> 01:09:41,655
The Council's
gamble had paid off.
1276
01:09:41,655 --> 01:09:43,788
Christian nationalists
were firmly embedded
1277
01:09:43,788 --> 01:09:45,703
at the highest levels
of government.
1278
01:09:45,703 --> 01:09:49,359
The Supreme Court had an
absolute majority of justices
1279
01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:51,448
poised to overturn landmark
1280
01:09:51,448 --> 01:09:54,581
civil and women's rights decisions.
1281
01:09:54,581 --> 01:09:59,978
Paul Weyrich's vision
of a Christian nation
was becoming a reality.
1282
01:09:59,978 --> 01:10:03,242
The president
is extremely well-positioned
for reelection.
1283
01:10:03,242 --> 01:10:06,680
So we gotta get past
this coronavirus speedbump.
1284
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:09,335
It's unlikely that
we're gonna have a recession.
1285
01:10:09,335 --> 01:10:11,685
If we don't,
and we do our job,
1286
01:10:11,685 --> 01:10:13,731
historically,
he should be reelected.
1287
01:10:13,731 --> 01:10:20,041
Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!
1288
01:10:26,570 --> 01:10:29,834
Katherine Stewart:
Trump appeals to
1289
01:10:29,834 --> 01:10:33,446
the authoritarian impulses
of his supporters.
1290
01:10:33,446 --> 01:10:37,668
They're often
referring to him as a king,
a biblical king,
1291
01:10:37,668 --> 01:10:42,238
an imperfect leader
through whom God chose
to enact His will.
1292
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:44,022
Now here's the thing
about kings.
1293
01:10:44,022 --> 01:10:46,242
They don't have
to respect the rules.
1294
01:10:46,242 --> 01:10:48,635
They are the law unto themself.
1295
01:10:48,635 --> 01:10:50,289
And that underscores the fact
1296
01:10:50,289 --> 01:10:53,684
that is
an anti-democratic movement
1297
01:10:53,684 --> 01:10:57,601
that doesn't believe
in representative democracy.
1298
01:10:57,601 --> 01:11:00,734
USA! USA! USA!
1299
01:11:03,302 --> 01:11:06,131
Wolf Blitzer: CNN projects
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
1300
01:11:06,131 --> 01:11:10,048
is elected the 46th president
of the United States,
1301
01:11:10,048 --> 01:11:15,836
winning the White House
and denying President Trump
as second term.
1302
01:11:15,836 --> 01:11:20,145
If you count the legal votes,
I easily win.
1303
01:11:20,145 --> 01:11:22,626
If you count the illegal votes,
1304
01:11:22,626 --> 01:11:26,891
they can try to steal
the election from us.
1305
01:11:26,891 --> 01:11:29,502
If you count the votes
that came in late--
1306
01:11:29,502 --> 01:11:30,938
we're looking at them
very strongly,
1307
01:11:30,938 --> 01:11:32,636
but a lot of votes came in late.
1308
01:11:32,636 --> 01:11:34,333
Well, there we go.
1309
01:11:34,333 --> 01:11:37,336
The president's
comprehensively demolishing
1310
01:11:37,336 --> 01:11:40,426
the American
democratic process.
1311
01:11:40,426 --> 01:11:42,341
It was almost
as if he was describing
1312
01:11:42,341 --> 01:11:45,605
a Zimbabwean election or
something going on in Belarus.
1313
01:11:45,605 --> 01:11:49,827
The Council
went into full combat mode
to support the Big Lie,
1314
01:11:49,827 --> 01:11:52,917
and the entire Christian
nationalist movement
quickly fell in line.
1315
01:11:52,917 --> 01:11:54,875
Four more years!
Four more years!
1316
01:11:54,875 --> 01:11:58,662
Bill Walton:
This is a spiritual
battle we are in.
1317
01:11:58,662 --> 01:12:01,142
This is good versus evil.
1318
01:12:01,142 --> 01:12:05,277
We have to do
everything we can to win.
1319
01:12:09,368 --> 01:12:12,415
Michael Flynn:
We're actually standing
in the middle of Jericho
1320
01:12:12,415 --> 01:12:15,635
because we have penetrated
the walls of Jericho, right?
1321
01:12:15,635 --> 01:12:17,420
There is evil
and there's corruption,
1322
01:12:17,420 --> 01:12:20,031
and us inside
of this barricade
1323
01:12:20,031 --> 01:12:22,860
we're gonna knock
those walls down, okay?
1324
01:12:22,860 --> 01:12:27,299
Michael Flynn was part of
the Council for National Policy.
1325
01:12:27,299 --> 01:12:29,649
On December 18th,
1326
01:12:29,649 --> 01:12:32,957
he shows up in a meeting
at the White House
1327
01:12:32,957 --> 01:12:37,570
where there's a discussion of
the imposition of martial law
1328
01:12:37,570 --> 01:12:41,444
as a possible way of addressing
the electoral crisis.
1329
01:12:41,444 --> 01:12:44,055
I mean, these people out there
talking about martial law
1330
01:12:44,055 --> 01:12:46,187
like it's something
that we've never done.
1331
01:12:46,187 --> 01:12:49,365
We've done-- martial law
has been instituted 64--
1332
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:54,282
- 64 times, Greg.
- Martial law was about hoping
1333
01:12:54,282 --> 01:12:58,330
that the January 6th event
would create a state
1334
01:12:58,330 --> 01:13:00,898
of what you could call
controlled chaos.
1335
01:13:00,898 --> 01:13:03,422
And there's a level of chaos
1336
01:13:03,422 --> 01:13:07,121
that will require us
to hold the election again.
1337
01:13:07,121 --> 01:13:10,037
I think this is the biggest
steal that we've ever seen.
1338
01:13:10,037 --> 01:13:13,606
Donald Trump's fighter,
and we're here in Washington
to back up him up,
1339
01:13:13,606 --> 01:13:16,174
bringing thousands
and thousands and thousands
1340
01:13:16,174 --> 01:13:18,611
of people this Saturday
for our march.
1341
01:13:18,611 --> 01:13:21,614
All of sudden,
you see various components
1342
01:13:21,614 --> 01:13:26,227
of the Council for
National Policy coming in
to participate.
1343
01:13:26,227 --> 01:13:31,450
You've got Ali Alexander,
who registers "Stop the Steal."
1344
01:13:31,450 --> 01:13:37,238
Charlie Kirk states
that he's sending buses to
the protests on January 6th.
1345
01:13:37,238 --> 01:13:42,026
Ginni Thomas, the wife
of Supreme Court justice
Clarence Thomas.
1346
01:13:43,549 --> 01:13:46,509
Once you started
to have this convergence
1347
01:13:46,509 --> 01:13:48,641
between CNP organizations,
1348
01:13:48,641 --> 01:13:53,211
QAnon, and
the fundamentalist sectors,
1349
01:13:53,211 --> 01:13:57,824
you had something that escaped
control of the leadership,
1350
01:13:57,824 --> 01:14:00,871
but it also escaped visibility.
1351
01:14:00,871 --> 01:14:06,311
Ladies and gentlemen, we are not
just up against politicians,
1352
01:14:06,311 --> 01:14:10,315
and we are not just
in a culture war.
1353
01:14:10,315 --> 01:14:12,448
We are in a kingdom war.
1354
01:14:12,448 --> 01:14:15,102
This is the kingdom of darkness
1355
01:14:15,102 --> 01:14:18,018
versus the kingdom of light.
1356
01:14:18,018 --> 01:14:22,632
Do you feel that?
1357
01:14:22,632 --> 01:14:25,591
Donald Trump: We will not
let them silence your voices.
1358
01:14:25,591 --> 01:14:30,117
We're not gonna let it happen.
1359
01:14:30,117 --> 01:14:33,120
Not gonna let it happen.
1360
01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:40,911
Fight for Trump!
Fight for Trump!
1361
01:14:40,911 --> 01:14:43,740
Holy shit!
They just broke down
the barricades!
1362
01:14:45,524 --> 01:14:48,440
Fuck you, police!
1363
01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:52,096
Fuck you!
1364
01:14:54,141 --> 01:14:57,144
Come on, Americans!
1365
01:14:58,885 --> 01:15:02,149
Kent Christmas:
Every authority outside
1366
01:15:02,149 --> 01:15:07,590
of the kingdom of Jesus Christ
is an illegal authority.
1367
01:15:07,590 --> 01:15:10,723
We're gonna start
hunting them down one-by-one!
1368
01:15:10,723 --> 01:15:13,900
We're gonna go fuck
with Nancy Pelosi.
1369
01:15:13,900 --> 01:15:16,337
Paul Weyrich: What is right
for their immortal souls
1370
01:15:16,337 --> 01:15:19,993
is to get them out of public
policy in this country.
1371
01:15:22,692 --> 01:15:24,868
Oh, oh!
1372
01:15:27,740 --> 01:15:29,133
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
It's possible to draw a line
1373
01:15:29,133 --> 01:15:31,178
from the January 6th
Capitol riot
1374
01:15:31,178 --> 01:15:34,399
back to that manifesto
and to plot
1375
01:15:34,399 --> 01:15:37,010
just how a culture was built
1376
01:15:37,010 --> 01:15:39,143
in which mainstream Christians
1377
01:15:39,143 --> 01:15:41,058
could feel
completely legitimate
1378
01:15:41,058 --> 01:15:44,148
and they could feel righteous
participating in an act
1379
01:15:44,148 --> 01:15:46,411
of trying to overthrow
their government.
1380
01:15:48,456 --> 01:15:50,328
They would rather tear it down,
1381
01:15:50,328 --> 01:15:53,810
they would rather burn it down
than going along with it.
1382
01:15:53,810 --> 01:15:56,639
And in that way, I think
it's very much a holy war.
1383
01:15:56,639 --> 01:16:01,861
People who
understood themselves to be
in the army of God
1384
01:16:01,861 --> 01:16:06,126
were waging a war
to try to reclaim
the United States for God.
1385
01:16:08,781 --> 01:16:12,655
All individuals must
leave the U.S. Capitol grounds
1386
01:16:12,655 --> 01:16:14,961
or be subject to arrest.
1387
01:16:14,961 --> 01:16:16,963
Many Americans
are reeling tonight
1388
01:16:16,963 --> 01:16:21,011
saying they can't believe
this is their country.
1389
01:16:21,011 --> 01:16:23,230
Legislators did go back
to work tonight
1390
01:16:23,230 --> 01:16:26,059
to try to finish
what they started,
1391
01:16:26,059 --> 01:16:29,193
to officially make
Joe Biden president.
1392
01:16:29,193 --> 01:16:32,892
What does it say to
the nearly half the country
1393
01:16:32,892 --> 01:16:34,894
that believes
this election was rigged
1394
01:16:34,894 --> 01:16:40,204
if we vote not even
to consider the claims?
1395
01:16:40,204 --> 01:16:42,162
The assault
on democracy continued
1396
01:16:42,162 --> 01:16:44,774
inside the chambers
of Congress.
1397
01:16:44,774 --> 01:16:49,169
Senate and House Republicans
rejected the slate of electors,
1398
01:16:49,169 --> 01:16:52,999
though no proof
of electoral fraud
was ever presented.
1399
01:16:57,525 --> 01:17:01,660
Steve Schmidt:
What always happens when you
look at autocratic movements
1400
01:17:01,660 --> 01:17:06,665
is one guy is not enough
to give it lift.
1401
01:17:06,665 --> 01:17:09,537
Is there a charismatic leader
with the capacity
1402
01:17:09,537 --> 01:17:12,323
to build a cult
of personality? 100%.
1403
01:17:12,323 --> 01:17:14,238
Donald Trump did that.
1404
01:17:14,238 --> 01:17:16,109
But that's not enough
for an autocratic movement.
1405
01:17:16,109 --> 01:17:18,982
You need to have
a propaganda arm,
1406
01:17:18,982 --> 01:17:20,592
and they have theirs.
1407
01:17:20,592 --> 01:17:22,420
But that's not enough.
1408
01:17:22,420 --> 01:17:25,118
You need to have
the cynicism of the elites,
1409
01:17:25,118 --> 01:17:28,731
the most highly educated
people in the country--
1410
01:17:28,731 --> 01:17:31,821
Harvard University's Ted Cruz,
1411
01:17:31,821 --> 01:17:34,562
Stanford University's
Josh Hawley--
1412
01:17:34,562 --> 01:17:36,347
who look at all of this
1413
01:17:36,347 --> 01:17:38,610
and say,
"I can ride that tiger.
1414
01:17:38,610 --> 01:17:41,700
I can manipulate these rubes
1415
01:17:41,700 --> 01:17:46,183
who actually like this guy
to my own advantage."
1416
01:17:46,183 --> 01:17:50,317
Because at the core
of an autocratic movement
is no morality.
1417
01:17:50,317 --> 01:17:53,233
In fact, it's immorality
or amorality,
1418
01:17:53,233 --> 01:17:55,061
because it's about power.
1419
01:17:55,061 --> 01:17:57,150
And in the pursuit
of that power,
1420
01:17:57,150 --> 01:18:01,415
history teaches us terrible,
terrible things happen.
1421
01:18:01,415 --> 01:18:06,159
Tonight as a
nationwide firestorm continues,
1422
01:18:06,159 --> 01:18:08,596
following Friday's
Supreme Court decision
1423
01:18:08,596 --> 01:18:11,338
that overturned Roe v. Wade...
1424
01:18:11,338 --> 01:18:14,646
Clarence Thomas suggested the
court could reexamine decisions
1425
01:18:14,646 --> 01:18:17,344
on contraception
and same-sex marriage.
1426
01:18:17,344 --> 01:18:19,216
This is another major ruling
1427
01:18:19,216 --> 01:18:22,088
from the court's emboldened
conservative majority,
1428
01:18:22,088 --> 01:18:25,744
resetting that delicate balance
between church and state.
1429
01:18:25,744 --> 01:18:31,184
With just 22 days
until election day, democracy
is very much on the ballot.
1430
01:18:31,184 --> 01:18:33,752
The Trump show's second act
1431
01:18:33,752 --> 01:18:36,973
that will test his grip on
the Republican party today...
1432
01:18:36,973 --> 01:18:38,757
Kari Lake:
You can us extremists,
1433
01:18:38,757 --> 01:18:40,759
you can call us
domestic terrorists.
1434
01:18:40,759 --> 01:18:43,283
You know who else was called
a lot of names?
1435
01:18:43,283 --> 01:18:45,024
Jesus.
Amen. Yeah.
1436
01:18:45,024 --> 01:18:48,201
There's a movement in this
country that is demonic.
1437
01:18:48,201 --> 01:18:51,030
It is the transgender movement.
1438
01:18:51,030 --> 01:18:52,466
Steve Bannon:
We're taking over
school boards.
1439
01:18:52,466 --> 01:18:54,599
We're taking over
the Republican party.
1440
01:18:54,599 --> 01:18:57,515
We're taking over
all the elections.
Suck on this.
1441
01:18:57,515 --> 01:19:00,126
The vast majority
of Republicans have
embraced the Big Lie.
1442
01:19:00,126 --> 01:19:03,129
They have kowtowed
to whatever Trump wants
1443
01:19:03,129 --> 01:19:06,567
because Trump
has a loyal base of support.
1444
01:19:06,567 --> 01:19:09,875
The biggest thing
coming out of January 6th
1445
01:19:09,875 --> 01:19:14,662
is that people are emboldened
to take matters
into their own hands.
1446
01:19:14,662 --> 01:19:18,623
Nick Fuentes: We need
to have a white uprising.
1447
01:19:18,623 --> 01:19:20,277
I don't believe in democracy.
1448
01:19:20,277 --> 01:19:22,148
I don't support
women's rights.
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01:19:22,148 --> 01:19:23,933
We need to take control
of the government
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01:19:23,933 --> 01:19:25,761
and force the people
to believe what we believe,
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01:19:25,761 --> 01:19:28,328
and you are gonna
become a Christian.
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01:19:28,328 --> 01:19:29,982
Marjorie Taylor Greene:
Most Americans,
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01:19:29,982 --> 01:19:31,375
no matter how they vote,
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01:19:31,375 --> 01:19:33,551
really care
about the same things.
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01:19:33,551 --> 01:19:35,553
We need to be the party
of nationalism.
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01:19:35,553 --> 01:19:37,424
And I'm a Christian
and I say it proudly.
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01:19:37,424 --> 01:19:39,339
We should be
Christian nationalists.
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01:19:46,129 --> 01:19:52,526
- Forward together!
- Not one step back!
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01:19:52,526 --> 01:19:59,229
William Barber: This is
a moral, constitutional moment.
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01:19:59,229 --> 01:20:02,710
- Preach, man!
- We say it clear today.
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01:20:02,710 --> 01:20:05,844
If you allow the infrastructure
of this democracy
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01:20:05,844 --> 01:20:08,020
to be fractured
and torn asunder,
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01:20:08,020 --> 01:20:12,024
this nation will pay
a deep price.
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01:20:16,594 --> 01:20:18,074
My mom taught me
at a very young age
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01:20:18,074 --> 01:20:19,771
that Christianity and faith
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01:20:19,771 --> 01:20:20,859
was about doing what we can
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01:20:20,859 --> 01:20:22,295
to be of service to others.
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01:20:22,295 --> 01:20:24,428
I want every child to feel
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01:20:24,428 --> 01:20:25,864
seen, heard, and supported,
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01:20:25,864 --> 01:20:27,866
not marginalized and targeted
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01:20:27,866 --> 01:20:31,914
because they are not straight,
white, and Christian.
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01:20:31,914 --> 01:20:34,873
And I know that hate
will only win
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01:20:34,873 --> 01:20:39,660
if people like me stand by
and let it happen.
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01:20:39,660 --> 01:20:42,881
- Stand up! Stand up!
- Fight back! Fight back!
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01:20:42,881 --> 01:20:45,405
- Stand up!
- Fight back!
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01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,932
Medhi Hasan: They said no one
cared about democracy,
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01:20:49,932 --> 01:20:52,543
that the only thing voters
care about is the economy.
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01:20:52,543 --> 01:20:55,198
- They were all wrong.
- Jon Favreau:
Right wing justices
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01:20:55,198 --> 01:20:58,462
overturned Roe v. Wade,
and fueled
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01:20:58,462 --> 01:21:01,030
one of the biggest backlashes
in American politics.
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01:21:01,030 --> 01:21:04,294
This would've been
a red wave election
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01:21:04,294 --> 01:21:09,647
if not for millions and
millions of young millennials
and Gen Z-ers.
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01:21:09,647 --> 01:21:11,344
Oliver Laughland:
What I think these
midterms have shown us
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01:21:11,344 --> 01:21:13,520
is that at least in part,
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01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:15,740
there's been nationwide rebuke
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01:21:15,740 --> 01:21:19,004
to Trump-backed extremism
around the country.
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01:21:20,527 --> 01:21:23,487
I believe we're
in the moment right now
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01:21:23,487 --> 01:21:28,231
that's primed for a movement
that leads us into
a resurrection of America.
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01:21:28,231 --> 01:21:31,060
And I believe
if we do it right,
with love and justice,
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01:21:31,060 --> 01:21:35,978
many of the people who have
put on Christian nationalism
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01:21:35,978 --> 01:21:40,199
will take it off,
will get born again,
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01:21:40,199 --> 01:21:42,506
will see the Gospel
in its truth.
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01:21:42,506 --> 01:21:44,682
And that's what gives me hope
even in America.
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01:21:44,682 --> 01:21:46,814
I'm not an optimist.
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01:21:46,814 --> 01:21:48,425
No, no.
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01:21:48,425 --> 01:21:50,383
I'm full of Christian hope,
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01:21:50,383 --> 01:21:53,778
which looks at the despair
and at the destruction
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01:21:53,778 --> 01:21:56,607
and at the denials
and at the deceptions,
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01:21:56,607 --> 01:21:59,088
and says they are real,
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01:21:59,088 --> 01:22:00,959
but they don't have
to have the last say.
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01:22:07,009 --> 01:22:09,794
Now one of the reporters
that interviewed me
the other day said,
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01:22:09,794 --> 01:22:13,232
"Well, you know,
you people think
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01:22:13,232 --> 01:22:15,452
that everything
is black and white.
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01:22:15,452 --> 01:22:19,543
Everything can be
reduced to simplicity."
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01:22:19,543 --> 01:22:22,415
And I accept that charge. Amen.
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01:22:22,415 --> 01:22:27,507
Ultimately,
everything can be reduced
to right and wrong.
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01:22:27,507 --> 01:22:30,293
Everything.
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01:22:30,293 --> 01:22:33,949
As a preacher, I'm always
making the connection
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01:22:33,949 --> 01:22:37,169
between the ancient story
of God's people
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01:22:37,169 --> 01:22:38,823
and the world that we live in.
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01:22:38,823 --> 01:22:41,086
And one of the most
basic connections
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01:22:41,086 --> 01:22:46,570
is that the worst evils never
present themselves as evil.
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01:22:46,570 --> 01:22:49,965
The worst evils
always present themselves
as the good.
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01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:52,184
Vincent James: Christian
nationalism is on the rise,
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01:22:52,184 --> 01:22:54,839
and people are thirsty for it.
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01:22:54,839 --> 01:22:57,668
We are the Christian Taliban.
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01:22:57,668 --> 01:22:59,496
Elizabeth Neumann:
34% of Americans think
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01:22:59,496 --> 01:23:02,151
violence to achieve
your political end
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01:23:02,151 --> 01:23:04,631
could be justified
in certain circumstances.
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01:23:04,631 --> 01:23:08,026
Folks, that's the definition
of terrorism.
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01:23:08,026 --> 01:23:12,552
In a country where 40%
to 50% of people don't vote,
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01:23:12,552 --> 01:23:15,077
you don't need a majority
to win elections.
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01:23:15,077 --> 01:23:18,036
All you need is a
disproportionately organized
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01:23:18,036 --> 01:23:21,779
and very, very committed
minority of the population.
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01:23:21,779 --> 01:23:24,869
Gavin Wax: We must be prepared
to do battle in every arena.
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01:23:24,869 --> 01:23:26,784
In the media, in the courtroom,
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01:23:26,784 --> 01:23:28,612
at the ballot box,
and in the streets.
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01:23:28,612 --> 01:23:31,180
We want total war.
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01:23:31,180 --> 01:23:37,273
My attitude has always been
that democracy is more fragile
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01:23:37,273 --> 01:23:40,537
than we think, and it has
to be actively defended.
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01:23:40,537 --> 01:23:43,670
Paul Weyrich understood this
very well.
1532
01:23:43,670 --> 01:23:49,502
He said straight out
that he wants to blow it up.
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01:23:49,502 --> 01:23:51,983
So regardless of what happens
to Donald Trump,
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01:23:51,983 --> 01:23:54,855
it's the machinery of
the Council for National Policy
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01:23:54,855 --> 01:23:58,729
that has the staying power,
and it's that machinery
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01:23:58,729 --> 01:24:03,081
that presents the lasting
threat to our democracy.
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01:24:05,605 --> 01:24:10,480
This moment requires an ability
to orient to reality.
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01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:15,006
And reality is the Republican
party is more extreme
1539
01:24:15,006 --> 01:24:16,921
more dangerous
and more committed
1540
01:24:16,921 --> 01:24:20,751
to the autocratic project
of gaining power right now
1541
01:24:20,751 --> 01:24:25,016
than it was
on January 6th of 2021.
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01:24:25,016 --> 01:24:27,366
And this has to be confronted
1543
01:24:27,366 --> 01:24:31,631
and there is no issue
that supercedes it.
1544
01:24:31,631 --> 01:24:37,768
Every generation
has had its challenge
it has had to face,
1545
01:24:37,768 --> 01:24:41,728
and we just have ours now.
1546
01:24:41,728 --> 01:24:44,818
We're from California
to the Carolinas,
1547
01:24:44,818 --> 01:24:48,126
from Massachusetts
to Mississippi,
1548
01:24:48,126 --> 01:24:50,955
from Alaska to Arkansas,
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01:24:50,955 --> 01:24:53,436
and we ain't going nowhere!