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20. Walter Huss and the History of Republican Radicalization, From the 1950s to Today – with Seth Cotlar

Is This Democracy

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The Rise and Fall of Walter Huss

Walter Huss became the chair of the Oregon Republican Party in 1978. He was a fundamentalist minister who fears an imminent communist work will take over. The Washington Post described him as "the wave of the GOP future" and said his victory represents one of the striking triumphs of evangelical religious participation in organizational politics.

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