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Joseph Lowndes

The Apotheosis of Donald Trump

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It might seem curious that Trump spent a valuable Sunday of campaign time before the election at a rally the middle of a city and a state that he has no chance of winning.  MAGA Republicanism has never been about building out a broad coalition so much solidifying a hard kernel of passionate anger and…

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Looking Forward to the History of the Tea Party

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The Right’s dream of demolishing the modern welfare state is as old as the New Deal itself. [1] A “Conservative Manifesto,” drafted in 1937 by a coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats in the Senate called for a balanced budget, tax reductions, the curtailing of union power, and an end to “unnecessary” government competition with private…

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