Journalist Tim Alberta is author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, a book touted as the author’s “deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.” He’s been making the rounds of friendly liberal media outlets lamenting fear-based evangelical Christian loyalty to Donald Trump, and his Friday stop at PBS’s Firing Line With Margaret Hoover may have been his most over the top excoriation of all.
Alberta once again relayed his admittedly infuriating story of being accosted at his father’s funeral by people who wanted to argue with him about how he covered Donald Trump.
Firing Line’s Hoover set her guest up to repeat his pulpit response, a bitter warning about Rush Limbaugh and the dangers of talk radio.
This tax-funded show had no qualms about appearing completely…
