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Oct 29, 2026
Bill HaslamHOST
I personally find all this really interesting, so I'm looking forward to this conversation.
Bill HaslamHOST
Before AEI, he co-founded PRRI and served as its research director.
Bill HaslamHOST
He writes the newsletter American Storylines, and he has a book coming out next month called Generation Uncoupled about the gender divide among young Americans.
Bill HaslamHOST
Dan, welcome to You Might Be Right.
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Bill HaslamHOST
Thank you.
Phil BredesenHOST
Bill, our next guest is Rob Griffin, who's a senior director in the democracy practice at Third Plateau.
Phil BredesenHOST
Before that, he ran the voter study group at Democracy Fund, and he held research director roles at PRRI and the Center for American Progress.
Phil BredesenHOST
He's also one of the authors of the States of Change Project, which has spent the better part of a decade projecting how generational shifts will reshape our elections.
Pete DominickHOST
Yeah, we do.
Pete DominickHOST
You know, PRRI, do you know Dr. Robbie Jones and the folks over at that organization? They just put out a poll about like empathy.
Pete DominickHOST
I forget exactly what the question was.
Pete DominickHOST
And I'm not sure if you follow this narrative.
Frank FeldmanHOST
And so.
Dan BeecherHOST
We should say that our jumping off point for this conversation is a recent PRRI report that, among a myriad of other things, I don't know if you saw how PRRI headlined this report, which they headlined it as, New Survey, 6 in 10 Americans See Trump as a Dangerous Dictator.
Dan BeecherHOST
So that was their big headline.
Dan BeecherHOST
Right.
Loren MossHOST
You may want to consider doing the same thing wherever you live.
Loren MossHOST
And so why does all this feel like it's happening at once? There's a new survey out from PRRI, not PRI, which is Public Radio International or the PRI party in Mexico, but PRRI, which is a nonpartisan outfit, and it finds that 58% of Americans now agree that Donald Trump is, their words, a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited.
Loren MossHOST
That's up from 52% in early 2025.
Loren MossHOST
There's a lot more in that survey, especially about what has happened to the MAGA evangelicals and how hate thy neighbor quietly elbowed out the love thy neighbor that their own Jesus actually preached.
Robert JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think part of it is really about a vision of the country that he has promised them.
Stephanie SyCORRESPONDENT
Robert Jones, president of the Public Religion Research Institute, says the evangelical support Trump does still enjoy is rooted in a certain vision of America.
Robert JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The message is we're a white Christian country.
Robert JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're losing that identity.
John FugelsangHOST
and try to lay it all on Romans 13.
John FugelsangHOST
Recent survey by PRRI found 84% of Democrats, 70% of Independents, and 53% of Republicans viewed empathy as a positive for society.
John FugelsangHOST
But among white evangelical Protestants, I'm sure you read this, 42% considered empathy a foundational moral virtue, but 54% said empathy could be dangerous.
John FugelsangHOST
Brandon, they weren't talking this way about the word empathy three years ago.
Leah PayneHOST
I'm Leah Payne, author of God Gave Rock and Roll to You, a history of contemporary Christian music and host of Spirit and Power, Charismatics and Politics in American Life.
Leah PayneHOST
Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, PRRI, and a political scientist who studies how gender, religion, and age shape American public opinion and political behavior.
Leah PayneHOST
She's also the author of The Politics of Gen Z and Tea Party Women.
Leah PayneHOST
Dr. Deckman joins us to discuss PRRI's American Values Survey and what it reveals about the relationships among religion, politics, and American identity.
Leah PayneHOST
I'm very excited about this conversation.
Leah PayneHOST
We're going to explore how Americans understand the country's challenges, where their values converge and divide, and what those findings can tell us about our political moment.
Jerry GaleGUEST
we have yes we do yes we do but but the also the good part of that about that is People are starting to recognize that what's going on.
Jerry GaleGUEST
The PRRI just came out with a research, and they kind of reported that more than 50% of people now have heard about Christian nationalism and have an opinion about Christian
Pat KahnkeHOST
nationalism.
Pat KahnkeHOST
That's good that it's, you know, and like anything like this, if you try to work against an authoritarian movement like this, what they're going to do is they're going to they're going to say that your label is incorrect.
Gary SterkoffHOST
We speak with Cook Political Report founder Charlie Cook about the races he's watching that'll determine which party will control Congress.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Then, a conversation with Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, about her group's new survey examining the political mood among Americans ahead of the midterms.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Finally, author and history professor Allan Lichtman discusses his latest book, Great American Presidents, The Twelve Who Transformed the Nation.
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Gary SterkoffHOST
Next, Public Religion Research Institute CEO Melissa Deckman discusses a new survey examining the political mood among Americans ahead of the midterms.
Gary SterkoffHOST
This latest survey finds that the top line finding is that Americans have gotten more pessimistic about the country's direction over the past 12 months.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
I think the story is it got leaked actually at the beginning, but then they went with it.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
But why didn't they make it at the beginning? You know, there was a study that came out this week for PRRI, which is a, we do it every year and it is a American values survey.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
And it looks at different religions.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
And it was notable for a real empathy gap.
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