reactionary politics

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/18/2022
  

  Ailing Empires: The Rhetoric of Decline in Britain and the US

  by Jed Esty

  If the US is following behind Great Britain in experiencing the strains of a collapsing empire, can Americans, their leaders, and their thinkers learn any lessons from the comparison and make a post-imperial society that is more humane and less nasty? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/5/2022
  

  Satanic Panic Has Featured in American Politics Since the Revolution

  by Zara Anishanslin

  Revolutionary patriots used the symbol of the Devil to convey the ideas of corruption and tyranny, and to elevate political disagreements to the plane of good and evil. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/7/2021
  

  White Backlash is America's Most Destructive Habit

  by John S. Huntington and Lawrence Glickman

  The authors endorse the term "counterrevolution" for a repeated pattern of political mobilization among White Americans combining distrust of democracy, apocalyptic rhetoric about the effects of racial equality, and the endorsement of antidemocratic and violent means to halt change.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Next Lost Cause?

  by Caroline E. Janney

  The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

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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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• 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.