conservatism

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• SOURCE: The Progressive
  1/3/2023
  

  Despite Aggressive Rebrand, Charles Koch is Still Fighting Against Democracy

  by Nancy MacLean and Lisa Graves

  The media have latched on to Charles Koch's recent expressions of regret over partisanship. But this is a rebranding, not a redirection. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/5/2023
  

  Why the Fringe is in Charge of the GOP

  by Richard H. Pildes

  The ability of a couple dozen hardliners to derail the Speaker election reflects deep transformations in the power of congressional leaders to wield power through commitee assignments and campaign funds. Will this make governing impossible? 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  12/20/2022
  

  Are Conservatives Really Pulling Ahead in the Comedy Race?

  Does a ratings boost for Greg Gutfeld's late-night show mean that today's conservatives are the funny ones and liberals are too "woke" to laugh? Answering the question means looking past party loyalty to ask what makes humor, says humor historian Teresa Prados-Terreira. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/12/2022
  

  Review: When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress

  by Jeff Shesol

  Jefferson Cowie's new book traces the current resurgence of racist and antigovernment radicalism through the history of George Wallace's Alabama home county. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  12/12/2022
  

  Why Can't the US Press Name the Bad Faith in Evangelical Politics?

  by John Stoehr

  Head-scratching accounts of "conflicted" evangelicals voting again and again for manifestly ungodly candidates would vanish if the media consulted (or hired) ex-evangelicals, who would explain the movement seeks power, not piety. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/9/2022
  

  Michael Kazin on J. Edgar Hoover, and Beverly Gage's Acclaimed Biography

  by Michael Kazin

  The signal contribution of Gage's book is not to examine Hoover's ideology or the details of his personal life, but to show how the FBI director built power and broad support, among even liberal Americans, for intrusive surveillance and repression of activists. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/25/2022
  

  Are Elite Conservatives Getting Too Weird to Win?

  by Graham Gallagher

  The right's move toward European nationalism, conservative Catholicism, and other departures from domestic conservative tradition are troubling to scholars of reactionary politics. But they might just seem weird to voters. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  11/30/2022
  

  From Rugged Individualists to Aggrieved Victims: The Rhetorical Trajectory of the Right

  by Paul Elliott Johnson

  Forms of grievance and victimhood have always been central to far-right politics. Only recently have mainstream conservative politicians felt free to embrace them without coming off as whiners. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/29/2022
  

  Did Today's Right Originate in the 1990s? (Review)

  by John Ganz

  Nicole Hemmer's book "Partisans" looks to a generation of conservatives who found the Reagan Revolution inadequate and laid the foundations for MAGA during the Clinton years. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  11/17/2022
  

  DeSantis v. Trump: More Polish, Less Bombast, Same Threat to Democracy?

  by Annika Brockschmidt

  Conservatives appear eager to boost Ron DeSantis as a "normal" conservative without Trump's "big lie" baggage. Yet his political career is a monument to the pursuit of minority rule, from gerrymandering to voting rights. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/21/2022
  

  School Politics at the Center of DeSantis's Conservatism

  by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

  Although contemporary conservatives tend to malign public schools and teachers, they are tapping into a long historical legacy in which widespread education was conditioned on the promise that schools would inculcate nationalism and the morality of conservative ruling elites. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/14/2022
  

  The Conservative Movement Has Captured SCOTUS. Now What?

  by Linda Greenhouse

  As the institution with the power to advance conservative goals without popular support, it was inevitable that the right would focus on packing the judiciary, explains veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  11/8/2022
  

  Who Is a Christian Nationalist?

  by Samuel L. Perry and Andrew L. Whitehead

  New survey data says that the growing Christian Nationalist movement is broader than previously believed, and a potential political force in many places. 

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• 11/8/2022
  

  Doug Mastriano's Political Mad Libs

  by Judith Giesberg and Paul Steege

  "Ultimately, if American political movements decide to mimic Nazis, we should take them at their word."

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• 11/4/2022
  

  Eying Return to Power, Conservatism Learns to Love the Administrative State

  by Jim Sleeper

  Some conservatives are turning away from the idea of a government small enough to drown in a bathtub to the idea of one large enough to enforce economic, cultural and sexual orthodoxy in line with their vision of the common good. Will the midterms be their coming out party? 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/2/2022
  

  Musk Just Latest in Right's Push To Acquire Media Platforms

  by A.J. Bauer

  The history of conservative media acquisitions reflects the anxiety on the right that their ideas are broadly unpopular. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  Understanding the Political Power of Nixon's "Silent Majority"

  by George Case

  Nixon's comment, arguably a throwaway line at the time, has become prophetic as the public across the political spectrum fears they are being manipulated and deceived. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/24/2022
  

  Conservative Colleges are Winning the Culture Wars

  by Adam Laats

  While battles over abortion information and teaching racism get headlines, Hillsdale College and other conservative institutions are quietly following the model created by Bob Jones University in the 1970s to push conservative Christian curricula into schools across the country.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/17/2022
  

  Why Liz Truss Couldn't Channel Margaret Thatcher

  by Robert Ralston

  Truss couldn't claim to present a solution to British decline because she took over as Prime Minister as an insider to a party seen as the agents of that decline. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/18/2022
  

  The GOP Agenda Probably Won't Influence Midterms – the "Contract with America" Didn't

  by Robert Fleegler

  Long-simmering trends and anti-incumbent sentiment gave Republican House candidates a strong tailwind in 1994; the Contract with America policy agenda became an explanation after the fact, but was seldom referenced in the campaign.