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The Roundtable

"Preparing for War" by Bradley Onishi

By Joe Donahue
Published January 11, 2023 at 11:34 AM EST
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The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in "Preparing for War."

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