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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020
For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020