conservatism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/7/2020
  

  When American Politics Turned Toxic (Review)

  Julian Zelizer argues that Newt Gingrich made the media unwitting accomplices to his partisan crusade.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/7/2020
  

  The Origins of the Republican Party’s Plutocratic Populism

  by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

  With concentrated wealth has come unprecedented investments in politics by billionaire donors and business organizations, mostly on the right.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  7/5/2020
  

  National Review is Trying to Rewrite its Own Racist History

  The conservative publication played a principal role in creating a conservative coalition of segregationists and business. 

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• Madison’s Sorrow Goes Beyond Pompeo's Dinners

  by Kevin C. O'Leary

  We are stuck with two major parties and when one party abandons the broad liberal-conservative center, the system stops working.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican (Review)

  Clyde Haberman reviews David Paul Kuhn's "The Hardhat Riot" which proves heated social divisions--stoked and exploited by politicians--are nothing new. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/29/2020
  

  The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy”

  by Bruce Bartlett

  The growing importance of racially conservative white Republicans in the western states after World War II helped present southern whites with a viable alternative to the Democratic Party. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Ghosts of Neshoba: Why Trump Can't Dog Whistle His Way Back to the White House

  by Rick Perlstein

  Ronald Reagan's notorious "states' rights" pledge in Mississippi in 1980 was actually damaging to his campaign. The Gipper needed all his political skill and actor's discipline to rebuild his standing with moderates while still appealing to resentful white voters. Donald Trump lacks the skill to pull off the same trick.

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• SOURCE: Frank Interviews
  6/18/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein on Our "Law and Order" Presidents

  "I've been very fortunate in choosing the right topic."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/16/2020
  

  Riots Helped Elect Nixon in 1968. Can Trump Benefit From Fear and Loathing Too?

  According to New York University historian Timothy Naftali, Trump's mimicry of Nixon's '68 campaign is "based upon a fundamental misreading of history."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/17/2020
  

  David Duke’s Twisted Take on the Civil Rights Movement

  He wore a suit, went on talk shows, and tried to mimic the push for black civil rights.

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• SOURCE: +972 Magazine
  

  How the GOP Brought Antisemitism from the Margins to the White House

  A new website tracking incidents of right-wing antisemitism finds that rarely a week goes by without the Republican Party boosting white nationalism. A long history of conservative maneuvering to portray Democrats and the left as antisemitic helps explain the lack of political consequences.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/15/2020
  

  Geraldo Cadava On The Past And Future Of Hispanic Republicans

  An interview with historian Geraldo Cadava, a scholar of Latinx history, borderlands, and immigration.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  John F. Kennedy Did What Donald Trump Only Wishes He Could Do

  by Paul Matzko

  Rules to promote “fairness” or prevent “discrimination” can all too easily turn into tools for gaining partisan advantage at the expense of free speech, a free press, and a functioning democracy.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/10/2020
  

  Fewer and Fewer Students Choose to Study History — Why?

  Retired history professor David Kaiser believes that faculty's tendency toward "politically correct" material causes students to lose interest. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/5/2020
  

  New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our Homo-Empire”

  Merritt Corrigan, USAID’s new deputy White House liaison, has condemned the “tyrannical LGBT agenda” and celebrated Hungary’s right-wing prime minister as “the shining champion of Western civilization.”

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/3/2020
  

  America's New Nihilism

  The Deputy Editor of the WSJ Editorial Page blames decades of failed urban policy, not "systemic racism" for problems plaguing urban communities of color.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/29/2020
  

  This is the Presidency George Wallace Never Had

  by Max Boot

  The president is pouring gasoline on the flames of racial division, and the Republican Party is holding the jerrycan for him. This is where the Southern Strategy has led after half a century.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2020
  

  Five Reasons ‘Law and Order’ Rhetoric Might not Work as Well in 2020 as in 1968

  by Max Boot

  The “Southern strategy” could work again this year, but there are at least five reasons to believe it might not be as potent as in the past.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Social Psychology of Popular Right-Wing Conservatism

  by Daniel Burnstein

  Right-wing conservative movements are driven by a psychological complex of threat and hostility to heterodox opinion that makes them difficult to stop once they've developed.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/21/2020
  

  How White Backlash Controls American Progress

  by Lawrence Glickman

  Individual backlashes are part of a common strain of reactionary politics that rejects challenges to social hierarchies.