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Tim Alberta

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Tim Alberta

@TimAlberta

staff writer @TheAtlantic | author of "American Carnage" (2019) and "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory" (2023) | perplexed, but not in despair

Michigan, USA

Joined August 2010

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Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jun 15, 2023
🧨 I've written a book. About Christianity. About being a pastor's kid. About the evangelical church idolizing America at the expense of its witness for Jesus Christ. Four years of reporting. A lifetime of reflection. I'd be honored if you pre-ordered:
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First look: An evangelical exposé by Tim Alberta coming in December
Alberta was inspired to write the book by a final conversation with his father, an evangelical minister.
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Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jan 10, 2021
The stuff I've heard in the last 72 hours—from members of Congress, law enforcement friends, gun shop owners, MAGA devotees—is absolutely chilling. We need to brace for a wave of violence in this country. Not just over the next couple of weeks, but over the next couple of years.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jun 2, 2020
BEN SASSE statement: “There is no right to riot... But there is a fundamental—a Constitutional—right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop."
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Nov 9, 2022
This is not a red tsunami. In fact, it might be shaping up as the best midterm cycle for an incumbent president's party since the rally-around-the-flag election of 2002.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Nov 5, 2024
Re: my comments on CNN and MSNBC this evening... yes, there are Trump staffers who no longer much care whether he wins or loses. Not exactly breaking news. Hard to overstate how terrible morale is inside of this campaign—and how much anger/resentment is felt toward the candidate.
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Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jan 7, 2021
121 House Republicans -- all of whom identify as "conservatives" -- just voted to throw out a state's election result because the president threw a temper tantrum.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Oct 2, 2020
We should also say a prayer for the thousands of families who watched their loved one depart for the local hospital in a sedan or a pickup truck and never saw them again.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Nov 10, 2020
I've seen cowardice in politics. Two U.S. senators calling on their state's top election official to resign—for no cause, citing no specific offense, just throwing him under the bus to score points with Trump & fire up their base ahead of a special election—is singular cowardice.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Feb 4, 2020
Iowa is charming and everything but let’s all admit that if we saw this sloppy, chaotic, slap-dash voting system employed in another country we’d call for UN election monitoring.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jan 31, 2020
To summarize: There are multiple jurors who believe the defendant is guilty as charged but disapprove of the sentence that awaits him so they’re voting to acquit the defendant who they believe is guilty as charged.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jul 31, 2020
I would trade a month’s salary to hear Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz react to Barack Obama suggesting we postpone the election because he’s losing. Not enough popcorn in the world.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Dec 12, 2020
The president in manic denial. 100+ federal officials placating him w/ a publicity stunt. The national party churning out lies and propaganda. One state party calling for secession. Another encouraging martyrdom. Millions of voters buying it. What a shameful moment in US history.
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
Jan 6, 2021
Turns out there is a downside to "humoring him."
Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
May 10, 2024
A man just collapsed at the ATL airport. Unresponsive. Not breathing. Turning blue. All in an instant, strangers raced to his aid—some administering CPR, others grabbing the defibrillators nearby—as several of us stood praying. After a scary minute or so, he kicked a leg and
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