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Episode: Bonus Content: Anthea Butler On Trump’s Lack of Empathy
Description: Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/Brad speaks to Professor Anthea Butler, a captain in the Biden campaign's "Catholics for Biden" initiative, and chair of the Religious Studies department at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss the details of Trump's COVID diagnosis and how his recklessness is fueled by four things:Â
Prosperity Gospel positive thinking,Â
racism,Â
capitalism,Â
hypermasculinity.Â
These themes ground a conversation that ranges from Trump's lack of em...