conservatism

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/25/2022
  

  Are Elite Conservatives Getting Too Weird to Win?

  by Graham Gallagher

  The right's move toward European nationalism, conservative Catholicism, and other departures from domestic conservative tradition are troubling to scholars of reactionary politics. But they might just seem weird to voters. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  11/30/2022
  

  From Rugged Individualists to Aggrieved Victims: The Rhetorical Trajectory of the Right

  by Paul Elliott Johnson

  Forms of grievance and victimhood have always been central to far-right politics. Only recently have mainstream conservative politicians felt free to embrace them without coming off as whiners. 

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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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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  11/17/2022
  

  DeSantis v. Trump: More Polish, Less Bombast, Same Threat to Democracy?

  by Annika Brockschmidt

  Conservatives appear eager to boost Ron DeSantis as a "normal" conservative without Trump's "big lie" baggage. Yet his political career is a monument to the pursuit of minority rule, from gerrymandering to voting rights. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/21/2022
  

  School Politics at the Center of DeSantis's Conservatism

  by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

  Although contemporary conservatives tend to malign public schools and teachers, they are tapping into a long historical legacy in which widespread education was conditioned on the promise that schools would inculcate nationalism and the morality of conservative ruling elites. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/14/2022
  

  The Conservative Movement Has Captured SCOTUS. Now What?

  by Linda Greenhouse

  As the institution with the power to advance conservative goals without popular support, it was inevitable that the right would focus on packing the judiciary, explains veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  11/8/2022
  

  Who Is a Christian Nationalist?

  by Samuel L. Perry and Andrew L. Whitehead

  New survey data says that the growing Christian Nationalist movement is broader than previously believed, and a potential political force in many places. 

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• 11/8/2022
  

  Doug Mastriano's Political Mad Libs

  by Judith Giesberg and Paul Steege

  "Ultimately, if American political movements decide to mimic Nazis, we should take them at their word."

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• 11/4/2022
  

  Eying Return to Power, Conservatism Learns to Love the Administrative State

  by Jim Sleeper

  Some conservatives are turning away from the idea of a government small enough to drown in a bathtub to the idea of one large enough to enforce economic, cultural and sexual orthodoxy in line with their vision of the common good. Will the midterms be their coming out party? 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/2/2022
  

  Musk Just Latest in Right's Push To Acquire Media Platforms

  by A.J. Bauer

  The history of conservative media acquisitions reflects the anxiety on the right that their ideas are broadly unpopular. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  Understanding the Political Power of Nixon's "Silent Majority"

  by George Case

  Nixon's comment, arguably a throwaway line at the time, has become prophetic as the public across the political spectrum fears they are being manipulated and deceived. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/24/2022
  

  Conservative Colleges are Winning the Culture Wars

  by Adam Laats

  While battles over abortion information and teaching racism get headlines, Hillsdale College and other conservative institutions are quietly following the model created by Bob Jones University in the 1970s to push conservative Christian curricula into schools across the country.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/17/2022
  

  Why Liz Truss Couldn't Channel Margaret Thatcher

  by Robert Ralston

  Truss couldn't claim to present a solution to British decline because she took over as Prime Minister as an insider to a party seen as the agents of that decline. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/18/2022
  

  The GOP Agenda Probably Won't Influence Midterms – the "Contract with America" Didn't

  by Robert Fleegler

  Long-simmering trends and anti-incumbent sentiment gave Republican House candidates a strong tailwind in 1994; the Contract with America policy agenda became an explanation after the fact, but was seldom referenced in the campaign. 

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• SOURCE: National Catholic Reporter
  10/17/2022
  

  Conference of "National Conservative" Academics and Politicians Lays Out New Right Agenda

  At one recent conference, a new conservative agenda based on an overtly religious set of moral restrictions, pronatalist public policy, opposition to globalization and attacks on "woke" was discussed.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/11/2022
  

  Review: When the GOP Lost Control of Itself

  by Claire Potter

  After a long dance with the far right, the Republican party lost – or abandoned – its desire to control the fringe, shifting from an institutional party to a set of media platforms running on a political platform of pessimism and anger, argues Nicole Hemmer. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/12/2022
  

  Angelo Codevilla: An Unknown Intellectual Leader of Today's Far Right

  by Daniel Luban

  The recently deceased political theorist's life helps to explain how a cast of conservative power brokers could move from the War on Terror neoconservatism to the Tea Party to Trumpism. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/28/2022
  

  This Conservative Thinks TPUSA is a Dangerous Turn Toward Campus McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Marks

  Turning Point USA is now a $40 million a year behemoth. Its influence is steering campus conservative culture to the conspiratorial and extreme, "more Alex Jones than Allan Bloom."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/26/2022
  

  Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Academic Freedom Again

  by John K. Wilson

  The legacies of William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan suggest that the right demands freedom for its own perspective that it actively seeks to deny to radical critics of capitalism, religion, and conservatism. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/28/2022
  

  Joshua Tait: Will Thiel-Backed Extremists Torpedo GOP Senate Hopes?

  Scholar of the right Joshua Tait discusses the prospects of JD Vance and Blake Masters with Post columnist Greg Sargent. Can they put a moderate face on full-blown Trumpism?