Trump ran on getting OUT of foreign wars. Then launched one without a congressional vote. Some of his voters are noticing the gap. This essay is for them and for anyone trying to talk to them.
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Many voters supported policies.
The question is whether they supported abandoning constitutional limits to achieve them.
New essay: When the Constitution Becomes the Obstacle
When the Constitution Becomes the Obstacle
The argument:
Supporting deportations, tariffs, or cultural pushback is one thing.
Supporting the dismantling of constitutional guardrails to achieve those goals is something else.
The first step is admitting it.
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New episode. 🎙https://www.politicsandreligion.us/e/republic-or-ruler/
@jonrauch.bsky.social spent yrs resisting the word "fascism." He used it last month. Rauch isn't a cable news partisan. He wrote the book defending free inquiry from both the left AND right.
If he's finally saying it, the ? isn't whether he went too far. It's why so many of us are still hesitating.
Gustavo Arellano's father crossed into the U.S. in the trunk of a Chevy. Eventually became a citizen. Never missed an election.
@gustavoarellano.bsky.social has spent 25 years covering immigration. New episode of TP&R -- and it's a good one.
www.politicsandreligion.us/e/gustavo-ar...
If it’s Talarico vs Paxton in TX, it’ll be one to watch. Otherwise, it’s fools gold for Dems.
New episode of Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other. Part of our WEAVE: The Social Fabric Project series: www.politicsandreligion.us/e/pastoramy_...
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"The image of God in me loves the image of God in you."
That was @lisasharper.bsky.social's prayer before walking into a classroom with a student who showed her no respect. Pastor Amy Schenkel brought it into our conversation as a kind of floor, the minimum viable posture for any hard relationship.
Abigail Spanberger just launched her presidential campaign. Wow, what a welcome contrast.
We talked about panicking responsibly, AI ethics, free speech evolution, and why you have more agency than you think.
Worth a listen: www.politicsandreligion.us/e/katie-harb...
New episode: The Election Whisperer 🎙️
@katieharbath.bsky.social spent a decade inside Facebook managing elections globally. No playbooks. Just impossible trade-offs where every option had major downsides.
America used to be described as an idea.
Lately it’s described more like a variable.
Carney’s comments made that clearer and Tocqueville explains why the response has to be civic, not just electoral.
Essay: coreysnathan.substack.com/p/after-the-...
Tocqueville warned that democracy decays not through sudden tyranny but gradual withdrawal.
What if we’re watching that withdrawal at scale?
New essay: After the Pleasant Fiction.
coreysnathan.substack.com/p/after-the-...
Kazadi Katambwa’s career arc is wild.
He started as a runner delivering tapes across LA and ended up working on campaigns for Dunkirk, Inception, Mad Max and more.
We got deep into how trailers actually get made and why the best ones trust the audience.
Really loved this conversation.
How do we practice connection across difference without surrendering moral clarity?
Photographer John Noltner argues that proximity changes everything.
“It's hard to hate somebody up close.”
New TP&R episode: www.politicsandreligion.us/e/johnnoltne...
Anonymity doesn’t just change how we speak.
It changes who we are allowed to see as human.
New essay: Anonymity and the Collapse of the Thou
A culture trained to dehumanize eventually turns lethal.
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The most dangerous historical mistake isn’t forgetting the past.
It’s remembering it in a way that lets us claim righteousness while excusing harm.
This essay asks where we actually belong in the stories we tell about ourselves.
coreysnathan.substack.com/p/cosplaying...
Trust and taste do not age out.
They compound.
Debi Struzan and Dana Flowers Mitchell on Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods
Episode 137
Trust the Taste
A new essay on sports, ritual, memory, and shared attention.
A Ballgame. A Ritual. And What We Carry Forward
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New TP&R episode is live.
Talked with @mattklewis.bsky.social about the ten year anniversary of Too Dumb to Fail and how populism, media incentives, and tribalism reshaped American politics.
Worth the full listen: www.politicsandreligion.us/e/mattlewis2026
@coreysnathan.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking a lot about how scripted our public conversations have become, how rarely we actually listen anymore, and what that costs us as human beings.
I wrote about it on the latest Substack.
👉 bit.ly/1-11-26_Subs...
“Please don’t explain Venezuela to Venezuelans. Listen to them.”
Powerful reminder from today’s episode with Lori Adams-Brown.
www.politicsandreligion.us/e/loriadamsb...
New TP&R episode with @walshfreedom.bsky.social, recorded weeks ago but released today as many return from the holidays.
It’s about character, silence, and what democracy asks of us when things get uncomfortable.
🎧 How We Argue — and Why It Matters
www.politicsandreligion.us/e/joewalsh_2026/
January 6th Was—and Still Is—a Big Deal
What That Day Revealed—and the Civic Disease We Let Fester
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Waking up to breaking news out of Venezuela and renewed questions about power and constitutional limits.
Five years after January 6, I published an essay this morning about what that day revealed—and what we chose to do with it afterward.
Not a hot take. An invitation to read.
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