PRRI's First Post-election Poll, Normalizing Telling the Truth, and Politics Comes Home for the Holidays
Our final Convocation Unscripted episode for 2024.
Today we’re posting our last episode of The Convocation Unscripted for 2024.
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In this episode, the Convocation Unscripted team give previews of their upcoming writing projects for 2025. Robby unpacks the findings from PRRI’s new post-election survey. The survey found that majorities of all white Christian groups voted for Donald Trump, as did Latino Protestants. Majorities of every other group—Christians of color, non-Christian religious groups, and religiously unaffiliated voters—voted for Kamala Harris. The survey also found that Democrats are five times more likely than Republicans to say they are altering upcoming holiday plans to spend less time with certain relatives in the wake of the election.
Jemar and Kristin talked about the bizarre conception of manhood that seems operative among Trump’s inner circle. Jemar also emphasized a disturbing finding from the PRRI survey: that white evangelical churchgoers were more likely than infrequent attenders to support Trump. They are, Jemar noted, white vectors for, superspreaders of the MAGA movement and white Christian nationalism. Kristin talked about the importance of taking risks and normalizing the basic task of telling the truth in spaces that are denying it. Diana raised the dangers of Elon Musk’s influence over elected officials and the new threats of oligarchy and plutocracy we are facing with the staggering amount of wealth at the disposal of a few.
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Thank you for this Robbie, I know this has been a long haul for all of you, I hope you know how many of us appreciate what you do and look to all of you for truth telling when things get a little blurry. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Get some much needed rest.
Merry Christmas folks! Also חג חנוכה שמח.