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.
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