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Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with\\xa0Diane Winston, Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Southern California, to discuss her recent book\\xa0Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan\\u2019s Evangelical Vision.\\xa0First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Israel\\u2019s murder of Israeli hostages, Netanyahu\\u2019s political career, Pope Francis\\u2019 reign, immigration reform, Biden\\u2019s polling numbers, Rudy\\u2019s big suit, the Florida GOP Chair, Clarence Thomas\\u2019 (and the Supreme Court\\u2019s) corruption, and the battles of the administrative state. Diane Winston then joins, jumping right into a background on Ronald Reagan\\u2019s religiosity, and how \\u2013 despite media presentation \\u2013 it was a consistent through line in his life, and central to his successful pivot from Democrat and former Union President, to GOP Governor of California, as he emphasized his born again bona fides in his plea to the supposed \\u201cmoral majority.\\u201d Next, Winston walks Sam and Emma through the contrast between the representation of Ronald Reagan\\u2019s Christianity in the media and how it was viewed and interpreted by his base, with the media largely ignoring it \\u2013 or at most taking it with a grain of salt \\u2013 allowing him to imbue political messages with the moral concepts of the evangelical community (e.g. lowering taxes to raise \\u201cpersonal responsibility\\u201d), set the conversation around policy, and reinvent conservatism as a hopeful ideology. After briefly expanding on the role of religion and religious law in his administration, Winston, Sam, and Emma wrap up with an assessment of the direct line between the anti-government and pro-market government of Reagan to the fascistic and anti-human GOP of today.

And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma parse through the coverage of Israel\\u2019s unsurprising and indiscriminate murder of their own civilians, the past and future of Netanyahu\\u2019s domination of Israel\\u2019s apartheid regime, and watch Ehud Olmert acknowledge exactly that. They also bask in the glory of Rudy\\u2019s near $150 million defamation suit, the GOP\\u2019s continued struggle to define Biden\\u2019s impeachable offenses, DeSantis\\u2019 cuckery, and the Pope\\u2019s recent moral battles, plus, your calls and IMs!

Check out Diane\'s book here:\\xa0https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo195433961.html

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