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Jan 28
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 133 - The A...

Jeremy Schumacher
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Authoritarian movements in the U.S. don’t appear out of nowhere, they inherit patterns. In this episode, Jeremy traces the American authoritarian family tree from Gerald L. K. Smith’s Christian Identity movement shaping modern Christian Nationalism, looking at Joseph McCarthy’s fear-based security politics, and finally moving to Paul Weyrich’s Moral Majority ... Show More
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