Randall Balmer is an Episcopal priest and New York Times bestselling author. He teaches Religion in North America at Dartmouth College. He is the author of more than a dozen books, and his commentaries appear in newspapers across the country. In 2024, the American Academy of Religion gave him the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion

Brynn Tannehill is a Naval Academy graduate, former naval aviator, author, and former senior defense analyst. She is a transgender American, and she will be moving to Canada soon because the Trump Administration has decided she is no longer a real American. Brynn discusses her status in America under the Trump Administration, and where America is likely headed in the next few years. 

Matthew D. Taylor is our premier scholar on the New Apostolic Reformation, Christian Nationalism, and Christian Imperialism. Matt is a Senior Scholar and the Protestant Scholar at ICJS, where he specializes in Muslim-Christian dialogue, Evangelical and Pentecostal movements, religious politics in the U.S., and American Islam. He is also the creator of the acclaimed audio-documentary series  “Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation,” which details how networks of extremist Christian leaders helped instigate the January 6th Insurrection. His most recent book is The Violent Take It By Force, the Christian movement that is destroying our democracy. 

John Feffer is an author and currently director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. In this interview I discuss with John how Trump is destroying America, how Musk is helping him, and why it will take our own Marshall Plan to rebuild what Trump is destroying. 

Brynn Tannehill is a Naval Academy graduate, former naval aviator, author, and senior defense analyst. She currently lives in Northern Virginia with her wife and three children.  Brynn has carefully studied our current political divide, and in this podcast she discusses four potential scenarios for what might happen in our country after the 2024 elections. These are worst case scenarios, but they speak to real possibilities that could tear our country apart. 

In this episode, Dr. Richard Wolff, economist and founder of Democracy At Work, discusses what Crypto is, the dangers of Crypto, and why Elon Musk and those like him are so enamored by the promise of Cryptocurrency. Dr. Wolff concludes by discussing the future of America’s economy in the modern world. It is a bleak picture.

In this podcast episode I talk with David Troy about why Elon Musk has gone all in to elect Donald Trump, threats to our democracy, the gold standard and crypto currency, why Russia is working to encourage Texas to secede from the Union, and why conservatives have opposed democratic oversight of our economy from the New Deal and until today. Dave is an investigative journalist based in Baltimore Maryland, he’s done extensive research focused on threats to democracy, as well as research on disinformation, American history, technology and the internet, and current events. Dave has done several Ted and Tedx talks, he’s well connected with Washington’s shakers and movers, he’s a research associate at Arizona State University, and he hosts a podcast called David Troy Presents. 

In this podcast I talk with Dr. Chelsea Ebin about J. D. Vance, the modern Catholic right, its similarities and differences with Protestant right wing politics, and about the Christian utopia that both Catholics and Protestants seek to built in America. 

Dr. Ebin is an assistant professor of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey. She teaches a range of courses that focus on American politics and constitutional law, political theory, and gender. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Women and Gender Studies department.

Her book, The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building, is out now from the University Press of Kansas. In it she examines the influence of conservative Catholic thought and Catholic New Right activists on the emergence of the New Christian Right in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 

In this episode of The Last Democratic President I chat with Matt Taylor about The New Apostolic Reformation and how Christian nationalists might respond if Trump loses the election. 

Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D., is a Senior Scholar and the Protestant Scholar at ICJS, where he specializes in Muslim-Christian dialogue, Evangelical and Pentecostal movements, religious politics in the U.S., and American Islam. He is also the creator of the acclaimed audio-documentary series  “Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation,” which details how networks of extremist Christian leaders helped instigate the January 6th Insurrection. His next book, The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian movement that is threatening our democracy (Broadleaf Books), will be published in Fall 2024.

If Trump wins in November, then he and his Republican allies will change our government in such a way that no democrat will ever be elected president again. If Trump loses in November, then several states will annul the votes of their citizens and simply declare Trump the winner, send Trump electors to Washington, and Trump will be appointed President. It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says or what the Supreme Court decides, Joe Biden will be the last democratic president. 

John Feffer is an author and currently director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. Several months ago I talked with John about what a second Trump presidency would look like domestically and in terms of foreign policy. Here is our conversation.