The Republican party is no longer conservative

Life & Faith

The US will soon choose its 47th president. Peter Wehner, former Republican insider, explains the national mood.

In the week before the 2024 US presidential election, perhaps the most consequential election in this year of elections, we hear from former Republican speechwriter and evangelical Peter Wehner on what has happened to the party he used to call his own.

Wehner served in three Republican administrations. He explains how President Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as a “shining city on a hill” drew him to conservatism in the first place and contrasts that aspirational national myth with the current mood in the Republican party.

Now a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum based in Washington D.C., Wehner’s public commentary on politics, faith, and the politicisation of faith regularly appears in The New York Times and The Atlantic.

We delve into the role of self-described evangelicals in American politics, and Wehner’s grave concerns for the future of not only the Republican party, but his country.

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Peter Wehner’s profile on X (Twitter)

Peter Wehner’s article in The Atlantic: This Election is Different

Simon’s interview with Michael Wear, Cultivating Better Politics.

Simon’s interview with Darrell Bock, The US Election and the Politicisation of Faith.