It’s a familiar story of an America on the edge, but Sharlet adds the perspective of a journalist who has long covered religion. In “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” the religion reporter and writing professor chronicles his recent journeys across America interviewing QAnon acolytes, Christian nationalists, proud misogynists, unrepentant January 6ers, armed militia men and strict anti-abortion activists - all still in thrall to Donald Trump. I don’t like it when I see a movement fascist folk art.” “I am trying to understand the proliferation, which is very real, of fascist flags.
“Transparent subjectivity is a virtue for this kind of reporting,” he said. ( JTA) - Jeff Sharlet admits up front that his book about what he and others call the “Trumpocene” epoch is not objective.
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