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SOURCE: Facing South
1/22/2021
Political Scientist Angie Maxwell on Countering the 'Long Southern Strategy'
Angie Maxwell emphasizes that the "Southern Strategy" was not a mechanical process of pandering to white Southerners' prejudices to swing them to the Republican Party. The process required building institutions and crafting political agendas and rhetoric over years.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/14/2021
A TV Documentary Shows the Deep Roots of Right-Wing Conspiracy
New Yorker critic Richard Brody discusses the 1964 broadcast of "Danger on the Right" on the John Birch Society.
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SOURCE: Vox
1/13/2021
Can the Republican Party be Saved?
Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of "Rule and Ruin," a history of the Republican Party since 1950. He discusses the party's turn toward right-wing radicalism with Vox's Sean Illing.
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1/24/2021
1964: The Election that Turned American Politics Tribal
by James A. Morone
In 1964, George Wallace's primary challenge to LBJ inspired Republicans to take up the mantle of the white party. Trumpism represents the dead end of that path.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/19/2021
The Ideas Behind Trump’s 1776 Commission Report
Nicole Hemmer, David Blight, Geoffrey Kabaservice, and Adam Laats place the 1776 Commission report in the context of longstanding political and cultural battles over historical narrative.
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SOURCE: USA Today
1/19/2021
Biden Inauguration amid Trump COVID Failure could End Republican Era of Bashing Government
by Seth Cotlar
Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory helped cement the popular notion of the futility of government action. Will four years of Trump capped by one year of the COVID-19 pandemic restore public demand for competent and active government?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/15/2021
A Major Business Ally Called for Trump’s Removal. It’s also a Problem for the GOP
by Jennifer Delton
The National Association of Manufacturers called for Trump's removal from office after January 6. The business lobbying group has faced controversies in the past ove the presence of John Birch Society members in its ranks.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/16/2021
QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within
by Ben Sasse
The Republican Senator from Nebraska, who holds a doctorate in American history, warns that his party cannot continue to "preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon," and suggests ways to repair the frayed social fabric in which conspiracy theories thrive.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/13/2021
Wealthy Bankers And Businessmen Plotted To Overthrow FDR. A Retired General Foiled It
by Gillian Brockell
Major General Smedley Butler (USMC) told Congress in 1933 that a group of business leaders had asked him to lead a coup against FDR. He insisted the plot was serious and credible. Has this episode faded from awareness because it was a hoax, or because Roosevelt and Congress all wanted to conceal how close it came to succeeding?
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/13/2021
Trump Is the Republican Party’s Past and Its Future
by Lisa McGirr
It's not a question of whether Trump voters are driven by racism, nativism or conspiracy theories, or by "economic anxiety." Republican economic policies have created inequality and instability that the party can only paper over by encouraging resentment, suspicion and hostility. It won't end with Trump's departure.
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1/12/2020
The Long Overdue End of the “Serious Conservative"
by Charles J. Holden
Two darlings of the conservative movement – Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley – found themselves in hot water last week after supporting the false narrative of election fraud that inspired the Capitol rioting. It's part of a long legacy of media-anointed "serious conservatives" whose smarts have been inflated.
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SOURCE: Boston Herald
1/1/2021
Opinion: Lawsuit Puts some GOP Lawmakers on Dumb Side of history
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg suggests that Republican protests over the Electoral College vote certification are ridiculous and will be remembered as desperate and un-American.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/4/2021
We Must Stop Calling Trump’s Enablers ‘Conservative.’ They are the Radical Right
The term "conservatism" conceals and normalizes the radical anti-democratic tenor of the current Republican Party, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan, drawing on scholars including historian Heather Cox Richardson.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/21/2020
Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive
by Tom Nichols
"The Trump loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories and who remain part of a cult of personality should be deprived of the attention they seek."
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SOURCE: N+1
12/12/2020
We Live in a Society
by Gabriel Winant
Despite lamentations that social media have replaced face-to-face social life, those media platforms are increasingly important as sites of human contact and interaction. Anyone seeking political change must recognize this power and organize social networks to supplant it.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/16/2020
The Republican Party Now Has More in Common with the Southern Minority of 1860
by Jeremy Tewell
Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address warned of "the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement" as a path to ruin; the party he led to prominence is now embodying his warning.
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12/13/2020
Senator Mike Lee Disregards History While Claiming to Support American Unity
by Matt Chumchal
Senator Mike Lee this week claimed proposed museums dedicated to the history of women and Latino/as in America would foster division by ethnicity and sex. A biology professor shares an experience with the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and argues that the proposed museums are in fact needed to create the understanding needed to forge unity.
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SOURCE: USA Today
12/10/2020
'Hyphenated Identity Groups': Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee Blocks Legislation For Latino And Women History Smithsonians
"Claiming 'the last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation,' Lee blocked proposals to establish the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum."
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SOURCE: Texas Observer
12/8/2020
The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education
As with social studies, sex education in Texas has been subject to the control of social conservatives in positions of power in the state's educational establishment, demonstrating how the movement has shaped textbooks and curriculum for a generation. This may gradually be changing.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/5/2020
Trump’s Voter Fraud Yarn is Unraveling. But it can Still Help the GOP
Rick Perlstein suggests that the Republicans' unwillingness to condemn Trump's wild theories about a stolen election are part of a historical pattern of fear that if the electorate expands Republicans will be lose. The theories won't overturn this election, but they will be used to justify future restrictions on the ballot.