conservatism

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• 3/2/2021
  

  Historians on CPAC 2021

  The annual conservative meeting showed that Donald Trump still holds the steering wheel of the Republican Party. Historians on the speeches, the stage design, and the golden idol. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  

  Trumpism Grips a Post-Policy G.O.P. as Traditional Conservatism Fades

  by Jonathan Martin

  This year's CPAC meeting shows a remarkable Trumpian orthodoxy among Republican officials that stands out in contrast to the intense public debates that have followed previous electoral defeats. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/2/2021
  

  We Need a Second Season of ‘Mrs. America.’ Here’s Why

  by Magdalene Zier

  After the defeat of the ERA, Phyllis Schlafly's activist career entered a second act, pushing the federal judiciary in conservative directions.

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• SOURCE: The Week
  2/18/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans To Rage

  by Neil J. Young

  Even from the perspective of today's degraded political culture that he helped bring about, Limbaugh's cruelty remains shocking.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now
  2/25/2021
  

  “Decades in the Making”: How Mainstream Conservatives & Right-Wing Money Fueled the Capitol Attack

  Author Brendan O'Connor says the Capitol riots were decades in the making, and discusses the history of ideology and institution-building on the right that organized the riots. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/19/2021
  

  The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells

  by Timothy Noah

  The charging of L. Brent Bozell IV with disorderly conduct for entering the Senate chamber on January 6 prompts reflection on how a series of men named L. Brent Bozell trace the evolution of American conservatism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/22/2021
  

  The Legacy of Rush Limbaugh (Podcast)

  The Times Podcast "The Daily" looks at the career and legacy of the controversial radio host. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/21/2021
  

  Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan

  An analysis of three interrelated failures of planning, logistics, and markets that led to the Texas electrical disaster. 

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  2/17/2021
  

  From COVID to Power Outages in Ice Storms, the Texas Republican Party has Created a Failed State

  by Juan Cole

  Texas Republicans have gotten out of the way of the market and preached the futility of government action. A non-winterized utility grid is the result. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/19/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh and the Nineties Roots of “Cancel Culture”

  by Alex Pareene

  Rush Limbaugh's career ended in a siloed media environment where the right occupied its own channels. But it began in a mainstream media that was eager to profit by marketing his brand of down-punching reactionary grievance. 

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  2/19/2021
  

  His Ignominy Is His Triumph: a Counter-Obituary of Rush Limbaugh

  by A.J. Bauer

  "You’d be hard pressed to find a better popularizer of the concept of counter-hegemonic struggle (“culture war” in the vernacular), albeit on the right, or a more “organic intellectual” of the U.S. white upper middle class."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/2021
  

  We Wouldn’t Have Had President Trump Without Rush Limbaugh

  by Max Boot

  Rush Limbaugh stripped conservative politics of principle, policy, and argument, broadcasting a show based on "assertion, mockery, and resentment." Donald Trump's presidency has proven that this was enough. 

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• 2/17/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70, Influenced Combative Conservatism Over the Airwaves

  by HNN Staff

  The talk radio host energized conservatives and disgusted others with racist, misogynistic, gay-bashing rhetoric, building a lucrative media empire and a culture of politicized resentment. 

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• 2/18/2021
  

  The Texas Weather and Power Catastrophe

  by HNN Staff

  The combination of severe winter storms and persistent cold and a deregulated energy supply system without compulsion to invest in winterization has left Texans without power, heat or drinking water for days. Senator Ted Cruz appears to have decamped to Cancun while politicians blame wind and solar power for frozen natural gas refineries.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/15/2021
  

  McConnell’s Task: Purging the Crackpots and Bigots

  by Kevin M. Schultz

  William F. Buckley Jr. was able to advance conservative ideas by publicly dissociating from antisemites, Ayn Rand cultists and John Birch conspiracists on the right-wing fringes. Mitch McConnell's problem leading America's conservative party is that all those groups are back with a vengeance. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/2021
  

  From Limbaugh to Trump: Rick Perlstein Explains Rush’s Real Legacy

  Washington Post political columnist interviews historian Rick Perlstein on the late talk radio host's impact on political culture. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/17/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70

  The conservative talk radio host and de facto head of the Republican Party died on February 17 after a long career of airing right-wing grievances and attacking liberals, feminists, environmentalists, Democrats, and Black political leaders.

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• SOURCE: Stanford Daily
  2/12/2021
  

  A Tragic Day at the Senate

  by David Palumbo-Liu

  A Stanford scholar of Asian American Studies decries the university administration's dismissal of faculty complaints that the conservative Hoover Institution has produced disinformation about both COVID-19 and the integrity of the 2020 presidential election under the imprimatur of Stanford's academic reputation. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  2/14/2021
  

  Backlash Forever (Review Essay)

  by Gabriel Winant

  Historian Gabriel Winant reviews two recent books about the past and present of reactionary white working class politics and considers whether this tendency can be overcome. 

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• 2/14/2021
  

  What Becomes of a Broken Party?

  by James Robenalt

  The Republican Party seems to be refusing the opportunity to save itself by rejecting Trumpism. His acquittal in a second Senate trial means he will be free to demand the party bend to his will or be destroyed.