American Theocracy

The Midterms and the End of the Boomer Political Era

Plain English with Derek Thompson, 3 November 2026. The book comes up at 46 min 6 sec in.

In framing a question about how the Republican Party shifted from moralizing to embracing vices like gambling and marijuana, the speaker cites books called "American Theocracy" as an example of now-discredited predictions that evangelical Christian morals would come to dominate American political life.

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