The Importance of History and Reception History in American Politics

There's an interesting way in which terms get introduced into culture reinterpreted redeployed and then there's a lot of equivocation people speaking past each other. It seems like not only do we have to contend with the very ideas to get put forth into the world but also how those ideas get reinterpreted sometimes to mean very different things than what they originally meant. So anyway yeah and then yeah and I would add just like as the last point to you, when something gets flagged as left wing or right wing it can get attacked and then people want to defend it and then it just gets punted back and forth for some reason.

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