Straight White American Jesus

This is a very important podcast for Americans who want true analyses regarding all aspects of our country’s dissension, and why it matters. Listen-in; become informed. Consider your present; consider your future; and consider this question: Now that you know, who will you follow?

Was a longtime listener and was very appreciative at the time for all the various ways the hosts unpacked the religious- based aspects of the last decade of political chaos and fear/ rage bait. If you’re looking for a worldview that is an amalgamation of “left leaning politics”, ex evangelical to “woke” perspectives that without any irony presents itself as having arrived at some sort of “good place” as far as the veracity and ethical considerations that go into the host’s beliefs- and they align with your own this is a great podcast to unpack current events from an American evangelical viewpoint. IMO (and this is the core reason for the 3 star rating) is that the hosts and the editorial rubric of this podcast fail big time to deconstruct the monolithic hubris of the neoliberal, liberal and leftist politics. It’s like a victory lap of “I told you so” and/or I didn’t vote for them/that every time some catastrophic political milestone happens. Rn imo it’s time for accountability. When you can name your mistakes, omissions and failures - then the conversation about what to do instead- what works and how to deal with it can take place. I quit listening because I was done with the constant, sometimes subtle emotional appeals being made. And recently when I went listened to new episodes I decided to stop listening all together. The podcast is part of some sort of media company that is expanding and tbh the new features and hosts are out of touch and live in some sort of academic bubble. And the “experts” sometimes are just regurgitating mainstream media stories about their “area of expertise”. The recent episode on the Kirk assassination preliminary hearing was filled with mainstream media narratives- some that were false. Tbh when Kirk was assassinated I looked to this podcast to unpack all the details- groypers, evangelical- based TPUSA, Kirk’s conservatism and political ideology. And y’all kinda dropped the ball and just moved on to your regular agenda. IMO that the right wing political landscape is aggressively deconstructing itself is way more interesting than whatever dumb stuff Josh Hawley wrote in book. It’s like this podcast is so firmly established in its own belief system bubble that it’s missing one of the biggest “reasons for hope”. MAGA and the other “fascist” conservatives have been catalyzed by the Kirk assassination to examine their beliefs. To understand that Trump isn’t what they thought. And it’s developing into something way more than “buyers remorse”. Unfortunately this podcast is stuck in some sort of weird academia alternate reality where they want to explain, however they have only one rubric.

Love the show, tired of the questionable ads.

SWAJ has been a breath of fresh air for me. I found them right after Trump was elected (2016) and needed to make sense of how and why this happened, stayed because all the conversations about “hot button” topics are so important and spot on, and have remained engaged through the insanitary of a 2nd Trump administration.— not to mention, the deconstruction of my faith (from growing up within evangelicalism/ fundamentalism) has been painful, confusing and isolating at times- and the conversations in this podcast have given me a place to rest, so to speak, and helped me realize where religion, god, and spirituality can still remain a part of my identity.