Is the Anti Inflation Coalition the Material Basis for the New Right?

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Is the anti inflation coalition, in a sense, the material basis for the new right? Yes, that's it. The work of someone like melinda cooper reminds us that you shouldn't make a clean separation between the kind of the cultural conservatism and the economic base. And if that's true for freedmen, you can think about it being much more true for someone who actually is an evangelical christian.

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