Republican Party

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• SOURCE: Substack
  5/3/2022
  

  Republican Right is Forcing the Birth of the Society it Wants (and Most Americans Don't)

  by Claire Potter

  "Memo to radical conservative activists: despite your wettest fantasies, “libs” don’t cry at moments like this. We get angry, really angry. And we fight."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/2022
  

  Conservative Matthew Continetti Says GOP Must Dump Trump. Does History Show they Can (or Want To)?

  Concern about whether the Republicans can adopt a post-Trump conservatism reflects a long history of elite conservatism embracing and mobilizing demagogic populism. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/19/2022
  

  The Republicans are Accelerating the War on Abortion Rights

  Although two thirds of Americans favor some abortion rights, legal historian Mary Ziegler says the new composition of the Supreme Court means state legislatures will boldly pursue what they really want: totally outlawing abortion. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/16/2022
  

  If GOP Cared About Kids, it Would Protect them From White Nationalist Recruitment Online

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Why aren't conservatives up in arms about the "grooming" of white youth by white supremacists in online communities? 

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• 4/10/2022
  

  The Erosion of the Concept of Legitimate Opposition Undercuts Democracy

  by Jeff Kolnick

  The rising tendency to see partisan opponents as enemies of the nation justifies action to weaken democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/3/2022
  

  Why Can't Mike DeWine Succeed as a Reasonable Republican?

  The Ohio governor increasingly seems to fit a political mold of pragmatic conservatism that lacks a constituency in a polarized political environment driven by a radicalized Republican Party.

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  3/31/2022
  

  The White Nationalist Fringe is Moving to the Center of the Republican Party

  by Annika Brockschmidt

  The embrace of the white nationalist right by the Republican Party is reflected in the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene's political endorsement is, second to Trump's, the most sought-after for party candidates. 

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  3/27/2022
  

  Historian Jeff Shesol: Ginni Thomas's 1/6 Involvement Poses Unprecedented Crisis for Court's Legitimacy

  "In a very real sense, Clarence and Ginni Thomas are answerable only to Clarence and Ginni Thomas. The Trump Administration gave us all a hard lesson in how few actual rules bind the behavior of our national leaders."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/21/2022
  

  The Right Isn't Just Rejecting the 2020 Election – It's Worse than That

  by Thomas Zimmer

  For a growing number of Republicans, the illegitimacy of an election reflects not the process but the results – Democrats winning. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/13/2022
  

  History's Guidance to the January 6 Committee

  by Stephen A. West

  The 1872 report of the Congressional Ku Klux Klan Committee offers lessons for the January 6 Commission: expect partisans to weaponize the report, and don't trust "the judgment of history" to clear up doubts about culpability. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/9/2022
  

  Florida's Law Restricting LGBTQ Discussion Will Harm All Children

  by Marie-Amélie George

  The long history of bills restricting discussion of LGBTQ issues shows that these bills reinforce stigma and marginalize queer students and contribute to homophobic rhetoric and violence outside the school walls. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2022
  

  Jan. 6 Commission: Trump Allies Engaged in Potential Criminal Conspiracy to Block Certification

  "The court filing is the strongest assertion yet from the committee that it believes Trump and some of his allies potentially committed crimes during the effort to overturn Biden’s victory and by falsely stating repeatedly that the election was stolen."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2022
  

  GOP Response Shows Party May be Fighting the Last Battle as World Changes

  Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds's response to SOTU was heavy on recent culture war themes. Historian Eric Rauchway says that if Biden can repeat the performance of leadership by FDR in the face of the rising threat of fascism, these tactics might be irrelevant. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/2022
  

  Biden Defends Bull Connor Analogy for Opponents of Voting Rights Bill

  Eddie Glaude, chair of African American Studies at Princeton, called the outrage over the analogy a "disingenuous" reflection of Republicans' concern for being called racist exceeding their concern for racist practices. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/19/2022
  

  Is the Right Wing Fringe Moving Beyond Trump?

  by Thomas Lecaque

  "The most difficult part of riding a tiger, as the saying goes, is dismounting—and Donald Trump is riding a tiger of conspiracy-theorizing, apocalypse-chasing, murderous wackos."

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• SOURCE: Substack
  1/18/2022
  

  Orban and Putin Don't do Debates Either

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  The news that the Republican National Committee will boycott the Commission on Presidential Debates echoes the actions of authoritarians who reject the principle of political toleration and the very legitimacy of the opposition. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/11/2022
  

  Ultras: The Rise of America's Far Right (Review)

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Kim Phillips-Fein reviews John Huntington's "Far-Right Vanguard," calling his history of the far right a needed reminder of the porousness of boundaries between the right-wing fringe and mainstream conservatism in the 20th century. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/10/2022
  

  The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie

  by Katherine Stewart

  A historian of the religious right argues that the movement has recently integrated the Trumpist myth of stolen elections into its political mobilization of evangelical pastors. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/6/2022
  

  Why Didn't January 6 Force Moderation on the Republicans?

  "So there was a moment after January 6, where it seemed like the right was ready to disown Trump. They were ready to disown everybody who was involved in January 6. And for all kinds of reasons that was a very brief window that didn’t last."

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  1/6/2022
  

  The Party Is the Problem: The GOP's Long Road to Jan. 6

  by Jan-Werner Müller

  Well before Trump, the Republican Party has been working to build "a tyranny of the minority that believes itself to be the only true Americans."