One of the most significant content differences between right versus left political media is that right media often feature explicitly Christian religious content.

This is a fairly common phenomenon that is almost totally unknown to people who don& #39;t regularly consume rw media.
More explicitly religious content from right-wing media sites, this time from Daily Wire and Newsmax
I should note here that the Christian radio station company Salem Media, named for the legendary Biblical city, is the owner of most major conservative blog sites.
Jewish right-wingers are in a similar boat. They can& #39;t actively advocate for their religious views so instead, they glommed onto the myth of "Judeo-Christian values" which when they speak of it seems to be about Jews being self-hating. Dennis Prager is the archetype.
Salem also owns more than 100 radio stations across the country and is also the owner of several talk radio programs. Their hosts don& #39;t have huge followings, but because Salem is the 5th-largest owner of stations, this doesn& #39;t really matter.
Another manifestation of Christian fundamentalism in right-wing media is that more than a few conservative pundits have secondary careers writing Christian books
More Christian books from right-wing pundits, this time Dinesh D& #39;Souza, Bill O& #39;Reilly, and Eric Metaxas
Also, I should mention here that these same Christian propaganda type books are also heavily marketed toward Republican kids, as I noted in a previous thread https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1343693696517230598">https://twitter.com/mattsheff...
The Christian conservative feedback loop also works in the opposite direction with increasing frequency. It used to be that Christian radio stations focused mostly or only on preaching. But that& #39;s changed. Now, Christian radio is often just as political as it is religious.
Salem is the biggest example of this by turning formerly Christian stations into political-religious talk, but there& #39;s also American Family Radio which owns 180 Christian stations which it uses to push a GOP agenda https://afr.net/who-we-are/ ">https://afr.net/who-we-ar...
This religio-political infrastructure is why boomer conservative Christianity is dying off.

Young Christians want acceptance for LGBT people, empowering of women, & often embrace progressive causes. But there& #39;s so much money on the other side that they are totally disempowered
There& #39;s also Trinity Broadcasting Network where former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a show.

And of course there is also CBN, home of the 700 Club but many other religious political shows. There& #39;s an entire political media ecosystem most people have never heard of.
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Conservative elites have constructed a perpetual motion machine in which Jesus is a Republican and good Republicans are all fundamentalist Christians. People need to know what happened. Thanks!
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