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The Christ Nexus and Professor David Brat

The Christ Nexus and Professor David Brat v Th e D oll a r Deb auch The Christ Nexus and Professor David Brat T 3 Chris Lehmann Yet nearly all of the familiar associations that the Brat victory called to mind for the punditocracy were misleading at best. Yes, Brat received warm endorsements from the right’s talk-radio power elite, from Laura Ingraham to Mark Levin, but he got no financial support from any of the wellheeled national Tea Party organizations and in 2006 had been appointed to serve on a state economic council by then-governor Tim Kaine—a Democrat. Yes, he inveighed against the majority leader’s decision to cave on the debt ceiling vote, but he also excoriated Cantor’s “crony capitalist” track record and repeatedly assailed his Wall Street connections on the stump. (Cantor, indeed, wasted little time in giving lurid confirmation to this critique, resigning his leadership post early and landing a seven-figure sinecure at the Wall Street investment bank Moelis & Company.) And yes, Brat is a hardline Christianist, but he’s also gone on the record assailing the social right’s fondness for state-administered crackdowns on abortion and gay marriage. (Both issues, of course, that candidate Brat affirmed good evangelical probity on during his campaign—this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Baffler MIT Press

The Christ Nexus and Professor David Brat

Lehmann, Chris
The Baffler – Jul 1, 2014
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MIT Press
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© 2014 Chris Lehmann
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The Dollar Debauch
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1059-9789
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10.1162/BFLR_a_00284
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v Th e D oll a r Deb auch The Christ Nexus and Professor David Brat T 3 Chris Lehmann Yet nearly all of the familiar associations that the Brat victory called to mind for the punditocracy were misleading at best. Yes, Brat received warm endorsements from the right’s talk-radio power elite, from Laura Ingraham to Mark Levin, but he got no financial support from any of the wellheeled national Tea Party organizations and in 2006 had been appointed to serve on a state economic council by then-governor Tim Kaine—a Democrat. Yes, he inveighed against the majority leader’s decision to cave on the debt ceiling vote, but he also excoriated Cantor’s “crony capitalist” track record and repeatedly assailed his Wall Street connections on the stump. (Cantor, indeed, wasted little time in giving lurid confirmation to this critique, resigning his leadership post early and landing a seven-figure sinecure at the Wall Street investment bank Moelis & Company.) And yes, Brat is a hardline Christianist, but he’s also gone on the record assailing the social right’s fondness for state-administered crackdowns on abortion and gay marriage. (Both issues, of course, that candidate Brat affirmed good evangelical probity on during his campaign—this

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Published: Jul 1, 2014

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