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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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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/21/2021
Trump’s Parting Gift to Joe Biden
by Ronald Brownstein
Joe Biden's inaugural address was the first since Lincoln's in 1861 that used the term "disunion," emphasizing the severity of America's political division and Biden's potential to create a political realignment around commitment to democracy and democratic culture.
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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: Salon
1/18/2021
My Grandfather was a Nazi. Our Family's Story of Complicity Shows Where the Road to Extremism Leads
by Mary Louise Wells
Republicans who continued to contest the legitimacy of the election after the Capitol riots should consider the German example, which shows the potential for disaster if people accept authoritarianism out of expediency.
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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: 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: The Atlantic
1/12/2021
The Respectables
by Adam Serwer
The history of racist political violence in the United States means no one should be surprised by the presence of the economically comfortable and professionally accomplished among the Capitol rioters, who believe their right to rule, rather than their subsistence, is threatened.
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1/10/2021
Teddy Roosevelt and Josh Hawley's History Lessons
by David Goldfischer
Josh Hawley wrote a 2008 biography of Theodore Roosevelt balancing praise of the former president's vision of democracy with condemnation of his grasping for power. One wonders how the author of this book could have acted as the Senator did on January 6.
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1/10/2020
Will the Republicans Take the Fascist Option?
by Kevin Matthews
Before this past week, too many in the GOP seemed too willing to choose the fascist option. Now they have seen what it looks like and where it leads. The question Republicans must answer is simple: Will they choose fascism anyway?
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/29/2020
The Deep Origins of Latino Support for Trump
by Geraldo Cadava
"In the White House, Joe Biden will have the opportunity to show Latinos that they’re important to the Democratic coalition. First, though, Democrats will have to acknowledge that a shift did, in fact, take place."
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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
1/4/2021
Worse Than Treason
by Tom Nichols
"The majority of the Republican Party and its apologists are advocating for the overthrow of an American election and the continued rule of a sociopathic autocrat."
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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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12/20/2020
To Be Or Not to Be... a Republican
by James D. Zirin
Donald Trump doesn't expect to prevail in the 2020 election, but may succeed in keeping hold of the Republican Party for years to come; his insistent claims of fraud are a test of loyalty.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/14/2020
GOP Leader McConnell Congratulates Biden As President-Elect
Julian Zelizer argues that the whole Washington Republican establishment has been involved in a dangerous effort to undermine faith in the election, even after the Electoral College has cast its votes and given Joe Biden a winning total.
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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: 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.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
12/9/2020
How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?
by Lawrence B. Glickman
The Republican Party's reputation as the "Party of Ideas" in the late 1970s and 1980s was generally created by Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who derided the New Deal and Great Society as stale and outdated in a struggle to push the Democratic Party to the right.