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The GOP base is what you’d get if you combined PT Barnum’s dreamscape with Orwell’s nightmares.
There's a historical irony here that begs to be developed. In this book, @MicNick11 shows how conservative fears of Russian/Communist "mind control" via UNESCO, sex education, new math, etc. provided an important motivator for grass roots right wingers in the 50s & 60s.
@MicNick11 What weaponized Facebook is doing to a substantial number of rank and file American conservatives looks a lot like what those 50s and 60s conservatives, Bircher types and Goldwater fans, feared. Only those tactics are being used ON BEHALF of Trumpian conservatism.
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Man, if only Kristol had remembered that 1950 quote in 2008 when he was on team Sarah Palin. But better late than never, I guess.
This would be a good time to recall that in 1954, the year before Bill Buckley began publishing the National Review which became the bible of modern American Conservatism, he published this defense of McCarthy and his henchmen.
Buckley's co-author on that defense of McCarthy was L. Brent Bozell, the man who ghostwrote the ur-text of modern American Conservatism, Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative.
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Speculation: Donald Trump wants impeachment proceedings (and perhaps has even been intentionally provoking them) because he mistakenly thinks it will help his reelection bid when he's acquitted in the Senate.
Additional speculation: Many Dems in DC know (or suspect) that this is Trump's strategy, and because they fear that Trump is magic, they fear that he's right that this will serve his electoral interests.
If that phone call is what the reporting suggests it is, and given the enormous extent and depth of corruption that has marked this administration, it's hard to see how the Republican Party emerges stronger after impeachment proceedings, acquittal or not.
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#twitterstorians of religion. Just heard a speaker claim that 50-70% of white Americans at the time of the revolution were Calvinists in their theology? Does that sound right?
Thanks to all who responded to this query. I think the point they wanted to assert was that the majority of the founding generation believed in innate human depravity in a vaguely Calvinist sense. I suppose that's true, tho one needn't have been a Calvinist to believe that.
Another highlight from the talk was when the speaker used Washington's 1790 speech to the Jewish Congregation of Newport to make the claim that America had a Christian founding. Which is, IMO, quite a stretch. founders.archives.gov/documents/Wash…
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