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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
Trumpism Is a Turning Point in American Politics
I see the Cold War as this huge geopolitical event that constrained American politics in certain ways and some of those ways were awful. I don't think you get the modern black civil rights movement succeeding the way that it does outside of the Cold War, at least at the time that it did in the 1960s. Somebody like Ronald Reagan was operating in a Cold War context. He really did believe that he could build a majority consensus around conservatism and he won in two landslide elections. So I do see that as a turning point; even though I am absolutely not a Trump exceptionalist, I think that he has strains that go back.
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