conservatism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Violence at the Root of the Silent Majority

  by Brian Tochterman

  As a vigilante film, “Joe” inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Fascism: A Concern

  Is the application of "fascism" to describe today's politics accurate or useful? Historians including Samuel Moyn, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, David A. Bell, and Heather Ann Thompson add perspective. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/4/2020
  

  The Never Trumpers Have Already Won

  by Samuel Moyn

  Never Trump's historic role turns out to be not among Republicans so far, but within a Democratic Party whose members have chosen to convert enemies into friends, setting up a guardrail against the capture of their party by the left.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  The White, European Jesus of Western Imagination is Fiction

  Opinion columnist Michael Gerson takes issue with conservative writer Eric Metaxas's comments on the ethnicity of Jesus Christ. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  8/3/2020
  

  What Tom Cotton Gets So Wrong About Slavery and the Constitution

  by Sean Wilentz

  "I have fundamental publicized objections to the project, but these in no way mitigate Cotton’s serious misrepresentations of the historical record for evident political gain."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  Stop Worrying about Protecting ‘Taxpayers.’ That Isn’t the Government’s Job.

  by Lawrence B. Glickman

  "Taxpayerism has perverted our political culture by denying the existence of a common good — or, perhaps, more accurately, by falsely defining that good, and even freedom itself, as low taxes for the rich and for corporations."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/3/2020
  

  Reaganland Is the Riveting Conclusion to a Story That Still Isn’t Over (Review)

  "Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled."

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  7/28/2020
  

  The Impact of White Evangelicals on U.S. Politics (Audio)

  Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez argues in "Jesus and John Wayne" that contemporary Evangelical political views are a product of the group's embrace of patriarchal authority and power, a situation that will not end when Trump leaves office. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7/29/2020
  

  Chicago Becomes a Stage for Fulfilling a Conservative Battle

  Conservatives have wanted the federal government to take control of crime in Chicago for decades — long before Trump got into politics.

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  7/23/2020
  

  Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and Their Dangerous Myths of American History

  by Abram Van Engen

  "Only when we begin to see the multiplicity and complexity of history can we begin to understand how God moves in it and through it, and how we, in the present, can and should respond—righting wrongs and attempting to shine a light in dark places," writes Abram Van Engen.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/26/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan Foundation Asks RNC to Stop Using Reagan's Likeness for a Trump Fundraiser

  The RNC had printed a commemorative coin without receiving permission to use the 40th President’s likeness, said the Reagan Foundation's chief marketing officer.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7/27/2020
  

  A Brief History of Dangerous Others

  by Richard Kreitner and Rick Perlstein

  Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place. The allegation is not even necessarily meant to be believed. It is simply a cover story, intended to shield from responsibility not only the authorities implicated in crimes or abuses of power, but also society as a whole. 

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Who Opened the Door to Trumpism? David Frum's "Trumpocalypse" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Through his long analysis of Trump’s follies, Frum never develops his contention that twenty-first-century conservatism helped open the door for Trump. Without a full accounting, his political mea culpa is hollow and fails to offer guidance on how to avoid mistakes in the future.

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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.