The 1970s were a critical juncture.
🇺🇸 Christian masculinity was under threat - by feminists, stagnating male wages, rising FLFP & anti-Vietnam war protests
A counter-movement of televangelists, thinkers, politicians & intellectuals organised to legitimise & pump up patriarchy
“Jesus & John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith & Fractured a Nation” - I discuss a fab new book!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjSSlH_5e4 @histodons @economics