Jesus and John Wayne: Fracturing US Democracy
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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26 July 2022
30 October 2025
Then, following the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit this weekend in Tampa, Florida at which Trump’s favorite congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said “We need to be the party of nationalism… I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly—we should be Christian nationalists,” we look into the growing influence of white Christian nationalism in the Republican party. Joining is Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin University and the author of A New Gospel for Women. She has written for the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Religion & Politics, among other publications, and her latest book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.
