Christian TV hosts invoke Iran-style persecution threats to drive voter turnout.

Evidence

By the half-hour mark, Lamb was in full persecution mode. “Let me say this, and this is going to be shocking for some of y’all … You know what’s going to eventually happen in America if Christians don’t vote and we don’t get involved in the process? And the liberal groups see that they can just run roughshod over us? … There’ll come a time when Christian television will be outlawed. There’ll come a time that if a minister stands up and preaches the word of God against sin, it’ll be considered hate crimes. And hate speech. And they will be arrested and thrown in prison just like in countries like Iran!” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 717

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the ‘feigned persecution drives turnout’ tactic flagged in chapter 3. — connects to: Feigned persecution, not actual threat, drives religious voter turnout; Perceived white Christian persecution drives opposition to voter access — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 48; The Christian Right has long openly pursued suppression of rival voters — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 311

Broader Connections

• Perceived white Christian persecution drives opposition to voter access #expands (0.85) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 48
• The Christian Right has long openly pursued suppression of rival voters #expands (0.75) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 311