Republican Party

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• 10/25/2020
  

  Where Ross Douthat Goes Wrong

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jim Sleeper argues that Times columnist Ross Douthat's brand of conservatism fixates on a supposed liberal cultural domination while ignoring the right's long path to consolidating power through the law, institutions and the threat of physical force. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/23/2020
  

  Republicans Have a History of Weaponizing 'Socialism.' But Do They Understand what it Is?

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  “Socialism,” Harry Truman argued in 1952, “is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  10/16/2020
  

  A Look At The Long History Of Latino Republicans

  Historian Geraldo Cadava discusses why many Latinos have voted for Republicans and why many will again. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/20/2020
  

  Republicans: The New Confederacy

  by David W. Blight

  "There is no Republican majority in America, except on election days. It all depends on who votes and who is allowed to vote."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/16/2020
  

  A Campaign of Voter Subtraction: Trump’s Republican Party Must Subtract Votes in Order to Survive

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  The greatest myth of the 2016 election is that the polls got the election wrong. What if the polls did not get it wrong? What if the Republican game of voter subtraction got it right?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/14/2020
  

  Stop Othering Latinos

  by Geraldo L. Cadava

  When politicians see us as more than voters, we may give them our votes.

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/15/2020
  

  Republican Voter Suppression Efforts were Banned for Decades. Here's what Changed

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  In 2020, as in 1981, the realities of voter fraud don't matter. Republicans are insisting that their very real efforts at voter intimidation are warranted because they insist that Democrats have done or will do or possibly might do something much worse. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/14/2020
  

  What Do We Do About Voter Intimidation?

  by Nicholas Grossman

  "Americans can vote for any candidate they want. But they should be able to do so absent intimidation, and every vote should count."  

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  10/14/2020
  

  How QAnon Crept Into the Mind of Donald Trump

  by Jeff Sharlet

  Jeff Sharlet has long examined the role of true believers in politics. As the influence of the QAnon conspiracy theory among Trump's base comes in for scrutiny, he asks what if "he isn’t selling a dream, he’s dreaming it?"

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  10/9/2020
  

  “Wright-Gate” and Newt’s Ruthless Playbook (Review)

  Although he had dogs ranging from a Doberman pinscher to a cocker spaniel, young Newt Gingrich took particular delight in feeding hard-boiled eggs to his extensive collection of snakes. Julian Zelizer's new book on the Republican Revolution examines his appetite for conflict and political treachery.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/8/2020
  

  Republican Senator Blurts Out That He Hates Democracy

  Jonathan Chait says that Senator Mike Lee's insistence that the US is a republic and not a democracy is not a point of constitutional principle but a political defense of minority rule. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/6/2020
  

  VP Debates are Often Forgettable – But Dan Quayle Never Recovered from His 1988 Debate Mistake

  by Chris Lamb

  "Dan Quayle was a one-term vice president whose greatest contribution to politics came in a VP debate. In the dog-eat-dog world of politics, no politician since has wanted to end up on the Quayle end of the fire hydrant."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/2/2020
  

  Trump's Call for Freelance Poll-Watchers Summons a Dark History

  by Nicole Hemmer

  In 1981, the Republican National Committee used threatening signs and deployed off-duty officers to polling places in Black and Latino neighborhoods to help win the New Jersey governorship. This is the first presidential election year since the decree expired, making Trump's call for supporters to "watch the polls" ominous. 

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• SOURCE: Catholic University of America
  10/1/2020
  

  Catholic University of America Presents Geraldo Cadava on "The Hispanic Republican"

  Geraldo Cadava will discuss his new book on Hispanic Republicans on October 14 in a virtual seminar hosted by the Catholic University of America. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/25/2020
  

  If the Republican Party is the Party of Trump, What Does it Stand For?

  by Robert L. Tsai and Linda C. McClain

  The party’s decision to short-circuit the platform-writing process robbed its own voters of a meaningful opportunity to chart the direction of the party and re-tether a rudderless president to principles.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/29/2020
  

  Trump Venerates Teddy Roosevelt, But Roosevelt Would Have Hated Trump

  by David Gessner

  Although Theodore Roosevelt's tendencies toward racism is rightly criticized today, he also was a relentless critic of the power of predatory wealth as the biggest danger to society. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/25/2020
  

  The Incredible Influence of James A. Baker III

  Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power reviews Susan Glasser and Peter Baker's new biography of Republican Party stalwart James Baker III. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/14/2020
  

  Even the Republican ‘Skinny’ Relief Bill Failed. How is Such Unnecessary Suffering Justified?

  by Margaret Somers

  How is it that extra money incentivizes the rich to become paragons of moral virtue and economic rainmakers, whereas for working people it incentivizes them to become social parasites and economic saboteurs? How can there be one human nature for the 1%, and another for the rest of us?

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980

  by James Thornton Harris

  Rick Perlstein's latest volume in his study of the rise of the conservative movement focuses on the coming of Reaganism, but sheds light on how we got Trump.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/15/2020
  

  Republicans’ Problems with Young Voters Go Far Deeper than Trump

  by David Faris

  The idea that young voters lean left and shift to the right as they age is political folk wisdom, but has no basis in reality. The Republican Party risks its survival by counting on young voters to get more conservative.