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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/4/2022
The Ongoing Legacy of Direct-Mail Grievance Politics
by L. Benjamin Rolsky
By privatizing political discourse, the pioneers of direct mail advertising could solicit funds at the same time as they stoked the fears of a targeted set of voters; this worked to bring the religious right into the heart of the Republican Party.
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