How the culture wars came to dominate politics and how to push back - Velshi - MS NOW

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In 1988, right-wing evangelical Christian leaders whipped up an outrage campaign against Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" without ever seeing the film. They borrowed language from the civil rights movement to present themselves as persecuted, becoming the template for today’s culture wars. But time and time again, Americans have proven to be resistant to attempts to control what films they can see, what books they can read, or what ideas they can share. - Aired on 06/06/2026.

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1. I was living in the Seattle area at the time it came out.

There were long lines to see it, and when a reporter asked people why they came to see it, most said it was because of the fuss the fundy idiots were making over it. Iirc, one movie goer said it was just an okay movie, that they really would have waited for it to come out on tape but wanted to see what all the fuss was about.