Norman Lear, who died on Dec. 5 at age 101, reportedly created some 100 television shows but is perhaps best known for All in the Family, which ran on CBS from 1971 to 1979. The cast’s Michael Stivik, played by Rob Reiner, is now producer of the forthcoming God & Country. According to one review, it is about “the threat of a movement that infuses Christian dogma with far-right politics,” also known as “Christian nationalism.”
As Mark Tapson explains, it’s all about “the specter of a fundamentalist theocracy on the rise. They envision America becoming a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia in which white male Christian mullahs hang homosexuals and imprison women for seeking abortions. The left’s vision of the separation of church and state, therefore, is one in which Christian patriots and their values are best excluded from the halls of government power entirely.” And so on.
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