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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/22/2023
Nikki Haley's Campaign May Capitalize on Gender Stereotypes, but at a Cost to Women
by Jacqueline Beatty
The former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador is seeking to separate herself from other conservatives by leaning into certain gendered stereotypes; this reinforces the idea that women leaders are fundamentally different, which has historically kept women from equal political footing.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/27/2023
Can Republicans Rally Around DeSantis as an "Electable" Choice?
by Robert Fleegler
In the wake of disastrous overreach by House Republicans in impeaching Bill Clinton, the party cohered around George W. Bush as a candidate without Beltway baggage. If the party can't do the same thing in 2024, they risk being dragged down by Donald Trump.
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SOURCE: Substack
2/16/2023
Nikki Haley's Confederate Flag Revisionism
by Kevin M. Levin
"Hopefully, Haley understands that a presidential bid means that she is no longer sitting in a room with the Sons of Confederate Veterans."
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/21/2023
You Can't Have Ideological Conflict When One Side Abandons Ideas
by Timothy Noah
Sociologist Daniel Bell described ideology as "the commitment to the consequences of ideas." If this doesn't describe the GOP today, the author wonders how well the term "party of ideas" ever applied.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/15/2023
What's the Point of Nikki Haley's Campaign?
by Tom Nichols
No candidate is going to "restore sanity" to the Republican Party, even if any want to.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/15/2023
Nikki Haley's Confederate Flag Story
The former South Carolina governor, now once again a presidential candidate, has claimed credit for taking the Confederate flag off of the state house. A timeline shows she was often more conciliatory to the powerful pro-Confederate constituency in the state.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/23/2023
Miami-Dade has Lurched Right, but Still Loves "Obamacare"
by Catherine Mas
Even though conservative Latinos in Miami are generally suspicious of "socialism", the long history of local government support for medical access means that many carve out a big exception for the Affordable Care Act.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/20/2023
The History of Consumption Taxes Shows GOP Won't Eliminate IRS
Consumption taxes are successful when they target luxury purchases and the rich. A broad-based consumption tax like the one proposed by House Republicans to replace the income tax would be suicidal to even bring to a vote.
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SOURCE: Slate
1/21/2023
Why do Republicans Keep Calling it the "Democrat Party"?
by Lawrence B. Glickman
The odd rhetorical device isn't just trolling—it reflects 70 years of the Republican Party seeking to define itself against the opposition even as terms like "liberal" and "conservatism" had not yet taken on stable meaning.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/12/2023
House GOP Invokes Church Committee, but Echoes Earlier McCarthy
While they claim to be fighting abusive government agencies, promised investigations have uncomfortable parallels to McCarthy and HUAC, warns historian Beverly Gage.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/17/2023
Conspiratorialism is Now a Defining Feature of Republican Politics
While both British and American politics have become bitterly polarized and dysfunctional, the embrace by American leaders on the right of conspiracy theories as a uniquely American phenomenon.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/19/2023
As a History of Insurrection, the January 6 Report is a Mess
by Jill Lepore
The Committee delivered a potent indictment of Donald Trump's responsibility for the events of January 6, but shed little light on the origins or the future of the antidemocratic insurrection and failed to tell a compelling story about what happened.
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SOURCE: Slate
1/9/2023
New Anthology Mistakes the Roots of the Problem as "Misinformation" Rather than Power
by Paul M. Renfro and Matthew E. Stanley
The new "Myth America" offers insight into some recurrent myths about history from some excellent scholars, but it hews too closely to the idea that historical lies are a Trumpian phenomenon, rather than a broader aspect of the pursuit and consolidation of power for MAGA and New Democrats alike.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/5/2023
Why the Fringe is in Charge of the GOP
by Richard H. Pildes
The ability of a couple dozen hardliners to derail the Speaker election reflects deep transformations in the power of congressional leaders to wield power through commitee assignments and campaign funds. Will this make governing impossible?
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SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
12/19/2022
Historians Predict How History Will Remember January 6
Historians of the Civil War era including Manisha Sinha and Joanne Freeman, suggest that the Jan. 6 Committee has assembled a documentary record of events that can support a definitive understanding of events. But what politicians and voters make of the information will determine what history is written.
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SOURCE: Substack
12/14/2022
It's Time to Be Honest About the Partisan Nature of Gun Culture
by Heather Cox Richardson
"The national free-for-all in which we have 120 guns for every 100 people... is deeply tied to the political ideology of today’s Republican Party. It comes from the rise of Movement Conservatism under Ronald Reagan."
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12/11/2022
Will the Republican's Tilt Toward Isolationism End?
by Waller R. Newell
The Republican Party's fracturing between the remaining neocons and a younger group of isolationists comes at a critical moment when Russia is testing the possible limits on its expansive ambitions.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/5/2022
The GOP Once Supported the Youth Vote
by Jennifer Frost
Once Republicans championed opening the franchise to 18 year-olds. Today, it seems the party is unwilling to win those votes and would prefer to restrict them.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/28/2022
Republicans Can Thank Suburban New Yorkers for House Majority
by Stacie Taranto
The volatile politics of New York's downstate suburbs trace back to the settlement of massive suburban tracts outside the city after World War II, which created a large constituency of homeowners concerned with "law and order."
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SOURCE: The Nation
11/29/2022
Did Today's Right Originate in the 1990s? (Review)
by John Ganz
Nicole Hemmer's book "Partisans" looks to a generation of conservatives who found the Reagan Revolution inadequate and laid the foundations for MAGA during the Clinton years.
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