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Seth Cotlar
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The "center" of American politics is not a fixed point, it shifts over time. What is "the center" today would have been considered pretty far left in the 1990s. Likewise,
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Does this list contain anyone with a PhD in US History? I don't recognize anyone on the list with those qualifications. One needn't have a PHD to have expertise, but
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On this MLK Day, it’s worth remembering that the conservative movement in the 1960s drew much of its energy from the white backlash AGAINST MLK and the civil rights movement
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It makes me sad to see this and contemplate what a group of radical right wingers and their enablers in the state GOP have done to Oregon's political culture. Until
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There’s much to be said for the argument that Trumpism is warmed over McCarthyism, fancied up with a new coat of birther paint. 20-30% of white Americans have always been
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Great piece by a great historian. Just as the memory of "the lost cause" became a central pillar of white supremacy in the 20th century, the memory of "Trump's valiant
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1. As we talk about the #MAGABomber and the meaning of his actions, I think it would help if we kept in mind a concept that historians have been discussing
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The guy who invited a Holocaust denier to join him at the 2018 SOTU and hired a white nationalist speechwriter after the WH fired him has some thoughts about “the
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Wish folks cared as much about countering the political culture of far right hyper-nationalistic populism that traffics in anti-Semitic tropes and naturalized conceptions of racial and gender hierarchies, as they
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1. I would be curious to know how many contemporary Republicans would endorse this proposal for a social safety net (at the end I'll reveal who said it, and I
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The 90's called and it would like it's sneering depictions of "pathetic right wing rubes" back. I know it makes a certain segment of the educated classes (of which I'm
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1992: Pat Buchanan gives fascist keynote at GOP convention. Molly Ivins says "I guess it sounded better in the original German." Centrists & Republicans say "OMG, that's such an unfair
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