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How White Christian Nationalism Pulls People In | History of the Present with Andra Watkins

Last week’s elections will not be the end of white Christian nationalism.

While the midterm elections delivered massive wins for Democrats across the country, Andra Watkins — a leading voice against the white Christian nationalist movement — argues that this election was a rejection of political corruption, not white Christian nationalism.

She joins Brian Daitzman, Editor-in-Chief of The Intellectualist, to give her perspective on the 2026 midterms and the transformation of the religious electorate over the last decade.

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Andra also dives into her own history growing up in a religious cult, and breaks down how people get into cults in the first place; after all, to understand how to get someone out of a cult, you first have to understand how they got into one.


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