Weekly Roundup: Scott Colom Makes History, Stephen Miller Takes Over, and Van Hollen Takes on Schumer
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Summary
In this episode of Straight White American Jesus, Brad Onishi and Dan Miller break down Scott Colom's historic Senate win in Mississippi and the story that most outlets are missing. Colom will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction, and the first ever to be popularly elected, after defeating incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in one of the hardest states in the country to vote, where turnout surged roughly 35% over the last midterms. Then comes the history few are discussing: Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy founded in 1970 to resist integration, and she later enrolled her own daughter at another one. Brad traces the thread back to Brown v. Board of Education, the 1969 Holmes County lawsuit over tax exemptions for whites-only private schools, and Randall Balmer's argument about the racial origins of the religious right, including Paul Weyrich's strategy of packaging moral politics in non-religious language. Brad and Dan also discuss what Democrats can learn from Colom's campaign, the Republican response to the midterms, and the challenge to Chuck Schumer from Senator Chris Van Hollen.If you enjoy our work, please subscribe.Paid subscribers get bonus content, ad-free listening, access to the entire 1k episode archive, an invite to our Discord community, and access to the Axis Daily Brief.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...🔔Subscribe - Substack: www.axismundi.substack.comBooks mentioned:📕 American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy by Brad Onishi — out September 15: https://static.macmillan.com/static/e...📗 Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists by Matthew D. Taylor — out October 6: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/...Full tour dates:
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