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The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)

Know Your Enemy

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A Conservatism Benefits From What Happened in the Deep South in the Sixties, Right?

Conservative rhetoric around federalism and state's rights obviously taps into this. These political uprisings that take place and get described as riots by the media are seen as a threat to the social order in a fundamental way. And these things, which are constitutive of, or that are white back lash for the conservative movement, are extraordinarily useful. It is interesting that tanmon house identifies nixon kind of chameleon like qualities,. t that he was less of an idealogue than the people who kind of powered him to victory.

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