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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.
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