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6. Where to Put Trump in the History of Modern Conservatism (and Why Republicans Don’t Do “Soul-Searching” After Lost Elections) – with Nicole Hemmer!

Is This Democracy

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Trump Is Not the End of It, Right?

Some prominent conservatives, prominent voices on the American right started questioning democracy after the end of the Cold War. Is there actually a shift from pro-democracy to anti-democracy? Or is it just a shift in the way they talk about democracy? "It is certainly a call back to the way that the old right of the 1930s and 1940s talked about democracy," he says.

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