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The Doug Election and America After the Great Dechurching

November 7th, 2024 | 10 min read

By Jake Meador

In a 2016 Saturday Night Live sketch Tom Hanks appeared as "Doug," a MAGA-hat wearing Trump supporter on the gameshow Black Jeopardy. It's one of the best sketches SNL has done in the past decade. Over the course of five minutes, it becomes increasingly apparent that the white working class Doug and the show's regular Afro-American contestants actually have much more in common than is often acknowledged or realized. Or, at least, that is until the Final Jeopardy category comes up: "Lives That Matter."

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.