Tessera
Folgen

Robert P. Jones

@robertpjones.bsky.social

President and founder of PRRI and NYT bestselling author of Backslide; The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. Writing at https://www.redeemingdemocracy.net.

437 Posts42297 Follower3873 Folgt
PRRI@prri.org · 23h ago

There are just a few weeks until @robertpjones.bsky.social's next book, Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy, is published. Listen to a preview from the opening chapter, "Future Regret," read by Holter Graham:

Backslide - audiobook clip

Listen to an audiobook clip from BACKSLIDE, read by Holter Graham. “Bracing—Jones presents a vision of America as “fallen into... apostasy.” But he remains hopeful, noting that “backsliding is not ir

soundcloud.com

Christa Brown@christabrown.bsky.social · last wk.

"As long as we let this kind of thinking become normalized, every time we do it, we blunt our moral capacity." - @robertpjones.bsky.social

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you miss Steven Miller’s chilling speech, where he evokes Nazi tropes abt the deformed physical appearance of his political enemies? @Joy-Ann Reid and I unpack the dehumanizing rhetoric and the broader Nazi echoes we’re hearing from Trump and the MAGA movement. open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Icymi. Miller’s speech created few public ripples. But he’s revealing a brutal worldview behind the mass deportations that we’ve seen before. : And we know how that story ends.

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

The latest from @convocation.bsky.social. We unpack Steven Miller’s chilling speech, which trades in Nazi tropes about the deformed/abnormal physical characteristics of the “enemy within.” @kkdumez.bsky.social @jemartisby.bsky.social @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/convocat...

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Icymi. Miller’s speech created few public ripples. But he’s revealing a brutal worldview behind the mass deportations that we’ve seen before. : And we know how that story ends.

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

The latest from @convocation.bsky.social. We unpack Steven Miller’s chilling speech, which trades in Nazi tropes about the deformed/abnormal physical characteristics of the “enemy within.” @kkdumez.bsky.social @jemartisby.bsky.social @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/convocat...

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

At the end of his cringy speech to journalists at WH Correspondents Dinner, Trump “pulled out a hat and with a theatrical flourish plopped it on his head. It said, ‘Trump 2028.’” We should take this very seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

At Correspondents’ Dinner, a Rambling Trump Hurls Insults (Gift Article)

President Trump gave the keynote speech as relations between his administration and the press continue to deteriorate.

nytimes.com

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you miss Steven Miller’s chilling speech, where he evokes Nazi tropes abt the deformed physical appearance of his political enemies? @Joy-Ann Reid and I unpack the dehumanizing rhetoric and the broader Nazi echoes we’re hearing from Trump and the MAGA movement. open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...

Steven Miller's Chilling Nazi Speech | Countering White Christian Nationalism with Joy Reid [Ep 8]

The echoes are getting louder.

open.substack.com

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good for @nytimes.com for reporting this atrocity. But how do they frame the criticism of such a clearly Orwellian move? "Some historians have also criticized the federal government’s attempts to overhaul the Smithsonian as ideologically motivated." UNBELIEVABLE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...

Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

nytimes.com

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you miss Steven Miller’s chilling speech, where he evokes Nazi tropes abt the deformed physical appearance of his political enemies? @Joy-Ann Reid and I unpack the dehumanizing rhetoric and the broader Nazi echoes we’re hearing from Trump and the MAGA movement. open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...

Steven Miller's Chilling Nazi Speech | Countering White Christian Nationalism with Joy Reid [Ep 8]

The echoes are getting louder.

open.substack.com

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who murdered former MN House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, & her husband, Mark Hortman, & attempted to murder MN Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, & his daughter, Hope, was sentenced to two Life sentences plus 40 years with no parole. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Vance Boelter gets 2 life terms, no parole for Minnesota lawmaker shootings

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Vance Boelter two life sentences plus 40 years in the killings of Melissa and Mark Hortman and the attacks on John Hoffman, his wife Yvette and their daughter Hop...

mprnews.org

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

Quick clarification—the sneak preview is from the audio book, expertly read by Holter Graham. I argue that at this critical moment we should act in ways that avoid future regret. 10 years from now, what do we want to be able to say we did and didn’t do?

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share a sneak preview of my forthcoming book, BACKSLIDE: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation after the Christian Turn Against Democracy. The clip is from the first chapter, “Future Regret”. www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/sharing-a-...

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

Quick clarification—the sneak preview is from the audio book, expertly read by Holter Graham. I argue that at this critical moment we should act in ways that avoid future regret. 10 years from now, what do we want to be able to say we did and didn’t do?

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share a sneak preview of my forthcoming book, BACKSLIDE: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation after the Christian Turn Against Democracy. The clip is from the first chapter, “Future Regret”. www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/sharing-a-...

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

Important from @pettertornberg.com . In the US, we have a radicalized Christian nationalist right moving farther away from the rest of the country. I take on the ways the discourse of "polarization" has distorted our perception in my forthcoming book, BACKSLIDE. bookshop.org/a/56272/9781...

Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy

Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy

bookshop.org

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...