we will not know what they consist of yet. either party, if they lose, if they are unhappy with judge panels ruling, they ll be in a position to ask the full court on bock to listen to the case. that s all of the active judges, 12:11 of the seats are filled currently. so that would take on a patina of bipartisanship that might be the best way to go in this case. but glenn makes a good point here, which is that the issues are relatively clear here. this is a conservative circuit that in many ways rules with a pro law enforcement bias, if anything. and doj may well come out of this ahead of the trump folks after this case goes through atlanta. you know, last night we had reported that the doj was a long way from making any decision on charging trump. does that align with what you are reporting? well, here s what i can say is that in talking to you folks, there are people waiting to see what the doj will. do i do not if no if i can say
12:11 of the seats are filled currently. so that would take on a patina of bipartisanship that might be the best way to go in this case. but glenn makes a good point here, which is that the issues are relatively clear here. this is a conservative circuit that in many ways rules with a pro law enforcement bias, if anything. and doj may well come out of this ahead of the trump folks after this case goes through atlanta. you know, last night we had reported that the doj was a long way from making any decision on charging trump. does that align with what you are reporting? well, here s what i can say is that in talking to you folks, there are people waiting to see what the doj will. do i do not if no if i can say that the doj is any closer to charging trump. but we know of course the of former attorney general bill barr, i don t want former president trump to be charged. but just looking at this bill that barr released, they are getting closer and closer to having evidence to invite
an institutionalist can occupy and populist can occupy is betrayed by the fact that there is one giant funnel of a lane for a populist voice, a donald trump and ron desantis voice and smaller you can call them lanes, i call them tributaries that contribute into that funnel. i love i love the metaphor of waterways and tributaries, the foremost scholar of the modern american conservative movement george nash writes about how conservatism is a big river with many tributaries. unfortunately those days are over. okay? let s just be really, really clear. there is one river it is donald trump. donald trump has absolutely this notion that there is like this really diverse patina of intellectual tributaries fueling the movement, only one person has political power within the republican party in the primary base. he has a 35% choke hold on the
the sort of rural christian man who have a subset from robert jones, founder of the public religion research institute, and he talks about the fact that, you know, we must see these developments for what they. our expressions of raw political power by desperate white christian minority whose belief in its own divine righteousness has unmoored it from democratic commitments. and we must grasp the danger they represent for everyone else. i need to ask you, jennifer, look, i m a professor of political science, and not a professor of religion. i don t know how wet we are seeing right now could be explained as christiane 80. what i see is white identity politics with sort of a patina of christianity on top of it, but this is sort of about a white supremacist movement that is using christiane 80 as a sort of cover. do you think that there is some moral or christian argument that could be made to these kinds of people to change the perspective? because maybe they couldn t you could get some
we have a substack from robert jones, founder of the public religion researched institute. and he talks about the fact that, you know, we must see these developments for what they. our. expressions of raw political power by desperate white christian minority whose belief in its own divine righteousness has unmoored it from democratic commitments. and we must grasp the danger they represent for everyone else. i need to ask you, jennifer, look, i m a professor of political science, and not a professor of religion. i don t know what we are seeing right now could be explained as christiane 80. what i see is white identity politics with sort of a patina of christianity on top of it, but really this is about a white supremacist movement that is using christiana as a sort of cover. do you think there is some sort of moral or christian argument that could be used on these kinds of people to change your perspective? maybe you could get someone to look at their religion