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Shrugging Off Science, Physicians’ Pleas and Overrun Hospitals, DeSantis Bans Mask Requirements in Schools

July 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he will issue an executive order to prohibit school districts from imposing mask-wearing requirements as students return to classes in August. The order contradicts the recommendations of physicians, public health officials and the CDC and is issued as Florida is again the epicenter of the covid pandemic and its hospitals are being overrun.

‘Absolutely’: Health Chief Calls for Masks in Flagler Schools as AdventHealth Goes to Unprecedented ‘Black Status’

July 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Flagler County Health Department Administrator Bob Snyder on Thursday said that whether vaccinated or not, students indoors should be wearing masks. Snyder’s unequivocal declaration stresses similar recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and physicians at AdventHealth.

Behind Ben & Jerry’s West Bank Decision: Israel Is Losing the Battle for Public Opinion

July 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Ben & Jerry’s said selling ice cream in the West Bank and Gaza “is inconsistent with our values.” The move is emblematic of a larger trend: public sentiment among a group of U.S. voters – including many American Jews – who used to be stalwart supporters of Israel has shifted, and they are increasingly turning their backs on the Jewish state.

Cautionary Tale for Coastal Towns: What Miami’s Sea Wall Will Not Protect

July 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Much of Miami is built right up to the water’s edge. On average, it’s 6 feet above sea level. Ryan Parker/Unsplash, CC BY-ND

The sea wall the Army Corps is proposing – protecting only 6 miles of downtown and the financial district from a storm surge – can’t save Miami and Dade County. Most of the city will be outside the wall, unprotected; the wall will still trap water inside; and the Corps hasn’t closely studied what the construction of a high sea wall would do to water quality.

Domestic Violence 911 Calls Increased During Lockdown, but Police Reports and Arrests Declined

July 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Bullying and abusive words are domestic violence. (Jane Fox)

Stay-at-home orders disrupted traditional abuse-detection processes and support systems. A real increase in domestic violence indicates that this disruption occurred at a particularly damaging time. Better measures need to be put in place in order to protect victims during future outbreaks and keep everyone safe during lockdowns.

Year-Long Cabal of Claims Against Holland Comes Down to Wrist-Slap Over 2 Errant Emails as Ethics Commission Rules

July 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Milissa Holland in her last public appearance as mayor outside of a council meeting, on May 14, at the opening of the splash pad at the park named after her father. (© FlaglerLive)

A 15-month drumbeat of sound and fury over allegations of corruption, cover-ups, cabals and criminal acts, a drumbeat that influenced two elections, a city manager’s career and the mayor’s own, among others, tarnishing the reputation of a leading private company in the county, came down to a minor rebuke over an email misuse Holland long ago acknowledged and apologized for. Nothing else.

Tina-Marie Schultz and Robert Barnes Appointed to Bunnell City Commission for Next 8 Months

July 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Bunnell's newly appointed city commissioners, Tina-Marie Schultz and Robert Barnes. (Bunnell)

The Bunnell City Commission Monday evening appointed Robert Barnes and Tina-Marie Schultz to the commission for the next eight months to complete the terms of two commissioners, Bill Baxley and Donnie Nobles, who resigned in quick succession earlier this month. 

Can We Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’?

July 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

At its worst, cancel culture curtails speech. It threatens this longstanding fundamental freedom. If we limit speech by cancelling those we disagree with, other societal pillars also face peril. When expression is compromised, which freedom is next? Freedom of assembly? Freedom from fear?

Flagler Breaks Weekly Record with 400 Covid Infections, Florida Deaths on Rise Again

July 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Flagler County has broken the weekly record of covid infections, previously set in January. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County recorded 400 covid infections in the week ending Friday, breaking the previous weekly record set in January, and filling hospital beds as never before during the pandemic. The week’s increase represents a 346 percent increase over averages two weeks ago.

Is Islamophobia Hate Speech?

July 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The central question that human rights tribunals must answer in these cases is whether false claims, such as those made by Mark Steyn in “America Alone,” a screed against growing Muslim populations in Europe, are so extreme that they’re likely to encourage hateful views and extreme action.

Ghostly, Soulless, Absurd Olympics

July 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

That empty feeling. (© FlaglerLive)

The epiphanies of supreme athletic achievements in Ancient Greek Olympics could occur only if witnesses were physically present to immerse themselves – and share in – the spine-tingling flirtation with the divine. The Tokyo Olympics are soulless in comparison.

As Flagler Beach Grapples with Tawdry Pro-Trump Gatherings, City’s Wink to Surveillance Cameras Raises Questions

July 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 108 Comments

The weekly demonstrators are giving Flagler Beach a black eye. (© FlaglerLive via Facebook)

The weekly pro-Trump demonstrations featuring profane language in the heart of Flagler Beach has city commissioners concerned about the city’s image and the administration and police eying surveillance cameras they insist will not target the demonstrators, but be used as a tool in case of criminal activity. Others see a Pandora’s box.

Record Covid Surge in Flagler and at Hospital as Variant Slams Unvaccinated, Cleaving Community in 2 Camps

July 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

The fourth wave of the covid epidemic has broken over Flagler at the fastest rate yet, and in numbers already apporoaching last winter's records. The health department expects the records--already broken at the hospital--to shatter this week and next. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast hospitalizations for covid broke a record Tuesday, with 32 people hospitalized (six in intensive care), and broke the record again yesterday, with 37, all among the unvaccinated, while Flagler County is recording an average of 52 new infections a day, with schools reopening in three weeks.

At Origin of Cuba’s Mass Protests: Covid Misery and U.S. Economic Sanctions

July 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Cubans take to the streets of Havana in the largest anti-government protest in decades. 14ymedio via YouTube

Cuba’s current economic difficulties do not arise only from the pandemic: they are also the result of US policy. Thanks to US hostility, Cuba remains barred from access to emergency international financing from multilateral financial institutions.

Ignoraunce Incarno: The Wrongheaded Calls to Cancel Chaucer

July 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

"Geoffrey Chaucer" The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

It’s true that Chaucer’s work contains toxic material, including sexist and antisemitic material. But if you examine his writings in detail, you’ll see themes of concern for women and human rights, the oppressed and the persecuted, reappear time and time again.

Most Covid Deaths in England Now Are in the Vaccinated. Here’s Why That Shouldn’t Alarm You

July 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The fact that more vaccinated people are dying than unvaccinated people does nothing to undermine vaccine safety or effectiveness. In fact, it’s exactly what we’d expect from the excellent vaccines, which have already saved tens of thousands of lives.

Robert Cuff: Palm Coast’s Choice for Mayor Is Between Competent Leadership and Truly Dangerous Dysfunction

July 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Bob Cuff served on the Palm Coast City Council for four years until 2020, when he opted not to run again. His tenure was marked by a distinct lack of partisanship, detailed and serious attention to the city's governance and a knack for consensus through a combination of seriousness and wit. He brought decades of experience with the city going back to its earliest days as an ITT development, when Cuff was ITT's general counsel. He remains a practicing lawyer in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Robert Cuff, the former Palm Coast city councilman, warns that the July 27 special election for mayor will need a large turnout from voters who seek smoothly functioning government and serious leadership. The alternative is partisanship, division, and dysfunction for the next three years, endangering the city’s future.

Why Some Younger Evangelicals Are Leaving the Faith

July 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

It's getting lonely in there. (Peter Barker)

The institute’s study found that only 14% of Americans identify as white evangelical today. This is a drastic decline since 2006, when America’s religious landscape was composed of 23% white evangelicals, as the report notes.

High-Tide Flood Risk Will Increase 5 to 15 Times Over Next 15 Years, Putting Coastal Economies at Risk

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The frequency of high-tide flooding along the U.S. coasts has doubled since 2000, and it’s expected to increase five to 15 times more in the next 30 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns in a new report released July 14, 2021.

Danko-Lowe Campaign Fabrications: Governor’s Office Refutes Incendiary Claims About Holland “Criminal Charges”

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Ed Danko, the Palm Coast City Council member, in the foreground, has been campaigning on behalf of Alan Lowe, left, and advising or managing his campaign--a campaign using false and misleading accusations as a talking point. (© FlaglerLive)

Ed Danko, the Palm Coast City Council member working on behalf of Alan Lowe to get him elected mayor, has been making misleading or baseless statements, including outright lies, and leveling false and potentially defamatory accusations about former Mayor Milissa Holland, her ailing daughter and to some extent former City Manager Matt Morton, a FlaglerLive investigation found. 

The Inherent Racism of Anti-Vaxx Movements

July 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

While many accuse anti-vaxxers of a selfish disdain for the health and safety of others, there is a underlying aspect of these movements that needs to be more widely recognized. Vaccine resistance movements have always been led by white, middle-class voices and promoted by structures of racial inequality.

Delta Variant Attacks Vaccineless in Flagler and Florida as Covid Cases and Hospitalizations Shape into 4th Wave

July 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 50 Comments

Flagler County's weekly positive covid caseload has been on the rise again as the Delta variant affects more people, most of them unvaccinated. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Covid-19’s extremely infectious Delta variant is zeroing in on those without vaccines, who make up the entirety of the 430 hospitalizations in Central Florida’s AdventHealth hospitals alone. The proportion of those vaccinated in Flagler and Florida remains below 50 percent.

Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart Issues Statement on Election Security

July 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Flagler County Elections Supervisor Kaiti Lenhart. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Elections Supervisor Kaiti Lenhart issued the following statement this morning, in light of the ongoing special election for Palm Coast mayor, which culminates with in-person voting on July 27. Mail balloting has been ongoing, and early voting begins Saturday and runs until July 24.

Cuba Protests: 4 Essential Reads on Dissent in the Post-Castro Era

July 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Dusk outside the Capitol in Havana. (Stephen Colebourne)

Street protests erupted across Cuba on July 11, 2021, with crowds of Cubans demonstrating against food scarcity, medicine shortages and economic misery in their island nation. Here are four stories that describe current conditions in Cuba and the recent history behind this rare public outpouring of anger.

63% of Workers who File an EEOC Discrimination Complaint Lose Their Jobs

July 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

They filed EEOC complaints. (Roger Gregory)

People who experience sex discrimination, race discrimination and other forms of discrimination at work aren’t getting much protection from the laws designed to shield them from it, researchers found.

Nobles’ Resignation Added to Baxley’s, Bunnell Invites Residents to Apply for 2 Commission Seat Appointments

July 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Bunnell commission decided on seeking two appointments within the month in an evening of farewells and surprises, with Commissioner John Rogers revealing that he had just been battling Covid-19, and had been gravely ill, and former County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin, looking fit and conversant, making his first public appearance in a government setting since he suffered a stroke in February.

Flagler Beach Mayor Throws Marker Against Supporting Organizations Appearing on Joe Mullins Infomercial

July 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

A mirror at the Family Life Center's offices. The center runs the county's only shelter for abused people. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach Mayor Suzie Johnston, with fellow-commissioners’ support, severed her support for the Family Life Center, the shelter for abused people, after the center’s director appeared on Joe Mullins’s partisan infomercial on WNZF, what Johnston described as crossing a line. Mullins recently had slurred Flagler Beach commissioners as “cowards” and has been in an open feud with Commission Chairman Eric Cooley.

Five Lessons on Bringing Truth Back to Politics

July 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Susan Stebbing’s 1939 work is just as relevant today as it was then. National Portrait Gallery, London (Creative Commons)

Democracies have felt precarious – in the US, during the Trump presidency, and in countries like Brazil, Hungary and Poland currently. Integral to such corrosion of democracy (as George Orwell made clear in his novel 1984) is the distortion of truth and facts in favor of a particular agenda.

County and Whispering Meadows Ranch Draft Roadmap to Move Equine Therapy Non-Profit to Fairgrounds

July 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Whispering meadows Ranch has operated quietly and to acclaim for 14 years on a property off of John Anderson Highway. It is on the verge of an agreement with the county that would move the ranch to land near the county fairgrounds, off of County Road 13. (© FlaglerLive)

Whispering meadows Ranch and county government are on the verge of an agreement that would set the path for a long-term partnership, leasing land to the ranch at the county fairgrounds and ending the controversy, prompted by a few neighbors, that has surrounded the ranch’s operations in recent months on John Anderson Highway.

Trump Can’t beat Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Court but the Fight Might Be Worth More Money than a Win

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Trump follows the money trail. (White House)

No one involved with this case could be serious about winning in federal court. But that is not the “court” to which the former president is playing. Donald Trump is after money, and the federal court stage is another way to get it.

An Alan Lowe Campaign Message: 60 Seconds, 2 Violations of Law, 3 Falsehoods, 4 Misleading or Deceptive Statements

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Alan Lowe. (© FlaglerLive)

Lowe’s contempt for facts was apparent in his run for the mayorship last year and has characterized his renewed run in the July 27 special election for mayor. If all six candidates are sincere, including Lowe, only Lowe makes explicitly false statements, misleading claims, legal violations, and ideologically-driven pitches that have little to no connection to Palm Coast governance. 

Should You Be Concerned About the Delta Variant in Flagler? Absolutely, Health Officials Say–If You’re Not Vaccinated

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Hang them up to dry, but don;t get rid of them just yet. (Anne Holmes)

The bottom-line verdict on the Delta variant of the coronavirus is this: it is far more transmissible than its predecessors. It is more virulent. Vaccinated people, while not immune, are extremely unlikely to be gravely sickened by it. Unvaccinated people remain susceptible to easy infection, a greater chance of serious illness, and death.

Ed Danko Fumes, Accuses and Menaces as Politics of Destruction Point to Palm Coast Council’s Potential Direction

July 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council's Ed Danko Tuesday evening. ((© FlaglerLive via Palm Coast TV)

In a preview of the sort of council to come if Ed Danko gets Alan Lowe elected mayor and aligns with Victor Barbosa, as Danko has continuously suggested, Tuesday’s Palm Coast council meeting was a rank display of the politics of destruction, of an elected official lashing out publicly and brutally against his own colleagues and the only two people on the council who report to him while distracting from a still-active internal investigation against him.

Carol Bacha, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Carol Bacha. (© FlaglerLive)

Carol Bacha is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Critical Race Theory: What it Is and What, Gov. DeSantis, It Is Not

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Ron DeSantis does not understand critical race theory. (YouTube via News4Jax)

Americans are used to viewing their history through a triumphalist lens, where we overcome hardships, defeat our British oppressors and create a country where all are free with equal access to opportunities. Obviously, not all of that is true.

David Alfin, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

David Alfin. (© FlaglerLive)

David Alfin is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Flagler Schools Refuse Free Rapid Covid Tests That Could Minimize Quarantines Even as 9 Private Schools Sign Up

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Flagler County schools have declined an offer from the Flagler County Health Department to place free rapid-covid-test kits at the district’s nine school campuses. The rapid tests, part of a federal grant, could have been used to drastically minimize the need for students to be quarantined at home for 10 days at a time when merely suspected of having been exposed to the virus.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, July 6, 2021

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The Flagler County school Board will discuss substitute-teachers’ pay, the Palm Coast City Council will vote on the second and final reading on the closure of Slow Way.

With Support for Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad Becomes One of Several Deans to Tweet Themselves Into Trouble

July 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Phylicia Rashad as Aunt Ester and Anthony Chisholm as Solly Two Kings in a production of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean," staged by the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston in 2005. (T. Charles Erickson)

Rashad sent out a controversial Tweet in support of her onetime “TV husband,” Bill Cosby, after a court overturned his sexual assault conviction. “FINALLY!!!!” Rashad wrote in the Tweet. “A terrible wrong is being righted — a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” This prompted critics and Howard students to call for her resignation.

Cornelia Downing Manfre, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Cornelia Downing Manfre. (© FlaglerLive) live interview

Cornelia Downing Manfre is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Kathy Austrino, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Kathy Austrino is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Supreme Court Blunts Voting Rights in Arizona, and Potentially Nationwide, in Consequential Ruling

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast ballots. That’s the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, one of the decade’s most important voting rights cases.

Alan Lowe, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Alan Lowe, left, with Ed Danko, his campaign manager-adviser, who has said "I need Lowe" on the council, along with Councilman Victor Barbosa, who has also been helping Lowe's campaign. Lowe did not participate in the Live Interview, apparently on Danko's advice: Danko told the Observer Lowe would not participate in that interview since he was the front-runner, and presumably didn't need to. (© FlaglerLive)

Alan Lowe is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Palm Coast Splits 49-49 On Allowing Commercial Trucks in Driveways, But Survey’s Flaws Are Mosaic of Caveats

June 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

Would those be allowed? (© FlaglerLive)

By one measure, 70 percent of respondents are opposed to relaxing the commercial-vehicle rule in Palm Coast, but that’s before accounting for massive manipulation of the survey. Once weighed for such manipulations, the split is nearly dead even. Either way, the administration has no plans to submit the numbers to the council.

Doug Courtney, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

June 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Doug Courtney is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Flagler Beach Will Borrow Up to $15 Million to Finance Reconstruction of Its Ramshackle Sewer Plant

June 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Flagler Beach City Commission is embarking on an ambitious and expensive plan to rebuild its derelict sewer plant and position the city to stop dumping treated water in the Intracoastal by the beginning of the next decade.

How Flagler County’s Drunken-Sailor, All-Republican Commissioners Tried to Con You Into a Higher Tax

June 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

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The Flagler County Commission’s attempt unilaterally to impose an increase in the sales tax is the latest example of a lazy, bumbling commission addicted to spending, deceptive in its methods and indifferent to the long-term public interest.

Palm Coast Councilman Ed Danko Investigated By City Over Harassment of Employees and Interference With Duties

June 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 69 Comments

Palm Coast Council member Ed Danko hours before polls closed on Election Day in November, when he won election. He was running with Alan Lowe, who lost, and Victor Barbosa, who won. Lowe is running for mayor, with Danko as his manager. The two met for lunch with then-City Manager Matt Morton in Morton's final days. The substance of that lunch discussion is in dispute. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast City Council member Ed Danko, elected last November, has been the subject of an internal inquiry triggered by allegations he harassed and bullied employees and was rude to them, records show. The investigation, which remains open, concluded in a draft report that Danko had “inappropriately attempted to influence staff’s administrative duties.” Interference would be a violation of the city charter. Danko disputes the finding.

At Flagler Airport, Freedom Fest Soars Again on Wings of Pride and Memory

June 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

After a covid-imposed hiatus last year, Freedom Fest returns to the Flagler County Executive Airport on Independence Day weekend with vintage World War II aircraft, among many other exhibits, and opportunities for visitors to fly above the county. (© FlaglerLive)

A variety of historic and modern aircraft, flying and static, is coming to the Flagler County airport as part of Freedom Fest on Independence Day weekend, with bands, vendors and free admission.

White Gen X and Millennial Evangelicals Are Losing Faith in the Conservative Culture Wars

June 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Paula White, Advisor to the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, at the White House in may 2020. (White House)

Some of the younger evangelicals are openly questioning their religious and political traditions while the majority of white evangelicals are aging and a portion of younger evangelicals are engaging in both religion and politics differently.

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