Michael Barbaro

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From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.

Across the country and here in South Central Pennsylvania, church leaders say they're seeing a noticeable shift.

religion is having a moment in America.

four times since being home in the last seven or eight months.

We attended mass, you know, regularly, but I think they were going more because that's just what...

Upwardly mobile suburban professionals did, you know, late 80s, early 90s, right?

And so by ninth grade, I was done with it.

And I became so insufferable, I think, that my parents were just like,

We've lost this battle, and we stopped going to church.

And just by happenstance, I ended up marrying a woman who was much more devout than I was, more as a left-wing activist.

But through the process of our courtship, I convinced her that she should leave.

And so I would say I was actively hostile to it.

For decades.

You know, I had to kind of come back and be like, what the hell happened?

And try to understand, like, who are these people who voted for him?

And I did a lot of things, you know, like, kind of self-reflection on why half of America hates the Democrats and people like me.

You know, so I started to read some of these guys who are right-wing kind of influencer people, like, just go to some Twitter accounts and everything.

And I guess what I realized is it's like that kind of really nasty kind of godless... I think some of those guys are just so profoundly evil to me.

They've got...