Ryan Burge
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1,121 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Apr
Ryan Burge’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Democratic Party is largely becoming the party of not faithful people.
And I think that's going to continue going forward.
I think it's actually might be the most important political religious phenomenon in America is this huge divide religiously between the two parties right now.
Yeah, I mean, there's a great piece in 2002 from Fisher and Howitt where they started understanding that politics was probably the great divider, you know, and that was driving the rise of the nuns.
So I'll give you one stat.
Today, if you're a very liberal person, 62% chance that you're non-religious.
If you're a very conservative person, 11% chance.
Like the gap is that large.
And among young people, 70% of very liberal young people are non-religious now.
It's like they don't even understand that you can be a person of faith and be politically liberal because they have no examples of that in their research.
history.
When they think of religion, that is coded as conservative.
And by the way, that's not just evangelicalism.
That's Catholicism now.
That's Latter-day Saints.
That's Muslims in some directions.
That's Judaism.
So to be religious for them is to be conservative.
They have no concept of the social gospel movement or the religious fervor around abolitionism or the civil rights movement.
They just understand American politics and religion as the religious right.
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