Jul 5, 2026 · 57 min · 12 segments
Samantha and guest Allyson Shortle, professor at the University of Oklahoma, talk about the current state and long history of the movement which forms the hard core of Donald Trump's support…
Allyson ShortleGuest
Samantha Hancox-LiHostSo I am very excited to welcome on Alison Shortle, professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma and something of an expert on Christian nationalism.
We often talk about the movement interchangeably with its other sort of parts or components.
movement, which is a social movement that involves a lot of political coalitions and it's well-funded and organized and is in fact global in nature, even though it is spurred out of the United States largely, but certainly came out of evangelical culture, white evangelical culture specifically.
And they've had great success on the elite level, what we would call leaderships or in our institutions, reshaping how democracy is performed in America.
And it seems very sudden, even though this was a long term plan on part of the movement to retake the nation and all of its institutions.
Now that's the movement, and it's really hard to put your finger on, and they do not wear the label Christian Nationalism on their sleeve on purpose in order to be as powerful as possible.
And this agenda in Project 250 from the Christian nationalist movement is in fact showing up in Trump's agenda.
This has reshaped a lot of what we're seeing happening in terms of policymaking or policymaking that's not happening.
But Christian nationalism is also an ideology, which is largely how I study it.
So I am very excited to welcome on Alison Shortle, professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma and something of an expert on Christian nationalism.
We often talk about the movement interchangeably with its other sort of parts or components.
movement, which is a social movement that involves a lot of political coalitions and it's well-funded and organized and is in fact global in nature, even though it is spurred out of the United States largely, but certainly came out of evangelical culture, white evangelical culture specifically.
And they've had great success on the elite level, what we would call leaderships or in our institutions, reshaping how democracy is performed in America.
And it seems very sudden, even though this was a long term plan on part of the movement to retake the nation and all of its institutions.
Now that's the movement, and it's really hard to put your finger on, and they do not wear the label Christian Nationalism on their sleeve on purpose in order to be as powerful as possible.
And this agenda in Project 250 from the Christian nationalist movement is in fact showing up in Trump's agenda.
This has reshaped a lot of what we're seeing happening in terms of policymaking or policymaking that's not happening.
But Christian nationalism is also an ideology, which is largely how I study it.
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